Truman WestCampus Category4

Request for Qualification, Category 4 Direct Control Commercial – Corridor 1 ( C-COR1)

Truman specifically understands our agreement to accept and comply with the Terms and Conditions of the Request for Qualification the “RFQ” process.

This submission is prepared for Category 4: Direct Control Commercial – Corridor 1 ( C-COR1) We acknowledge that upon being shortlisted Truman will provide confidential evidence of our financial capacity to design, build and deliver product prior to being invited to take part in the request for proposal (the “RFP”).

We agree that we will sign a non-disclosure agreement in the event of being shortlisted as part of this RFQ.

Submission Category 4 Direct Control Commercial – Corridor 1 ( C-COR1)

The Truman Group is comprised of Truman Development Corporation, Truman Homes and Lionsworthe Homes. The pioneer of our organization was Truman Homes, which started by building homes over 30 years ago in the Chestermere area, just outside Calgary.

The creation of these two additional organizations along with the success of Truman Homes within the home building industry has allowed the Truman Group to pursue other avenues within the real estate industry. More specifically, creating complete communities from raw land to fully serviced developments that are sustainably master planned with thoughtful built form.

Corporate Vision & Values

Our executive management team has grown to encompass over 120 years of experience in all aspects of the development and building industry. Our depth of experience, knowledge and ingenuity, are the key elements as to how Truman continually delivers highly successful and sought after developments to market.

Our group of companies is also very active within the industry and with industry groups. Currently we are members of the Alberta New Home Warranty Program, Built Green, Better Business Bureau, Canadian Home Builders Association, Professional Home Builders Association, UDI, and the Urban Land Institute.

Our vision for the last 30 years for Truman has been to build a better Calgary, through vibrant neighbourhoods. Truman prides themselves in creating a lively mix of people, jobs and activities created through the developments we build.

Developments where local residents would have a chance to live, work, shop and play year round.

Truman exemplifies this through our core values of creating comfortable building design with thoughtful building form. In turn, creating welcoming, attractive, safe and complete communities.

These values are exemplified by our completed and upcoming bodies of work. We at Truman feel our values align perfectly with that of West Campus.

As a master builder, Truman works hand in hand with our clients to design and build world class developments. Specializing in: multifamily and mixed use developments, commercial developments, executive and contemporary homes, and full spectrum residential communities.

Our impeccable reputation is unmatched in the industry, and has been carefully achieved through our precise attention to detail and quality control.

We at Truman believe that by following evolving and innovative design and building approaches it has enabled us to differentiate our brand, our products, and our team.

Our commitment to ever evolving our company and our thought processes, has enabled us to achieve industry leading product completion time lines while maintaining the highest level of both quality and customer satisfaction in the industry.

Over the next fifteen years our immediate corporate vision is to continue to be a champion of innovative urban design strategies.

This vision is encompassed in our current legacy development named West District (www.westdistrict.ca). West District upon completion will comprise of over 3,500 dwelling units, over 7,000 people, 500,000 sq ft of retail and, 1.2 million square feet of office space.

The following is a brief overview of our current achievements

Highlights & Accolades

1930 Multi-family Units

894 Multi-family Units

Thousands of Single Family Homes

completed to date

currently under construction

completed to date

Over 2100 Units

1.2 Million Square Feet

Last 3 Years the Highest Rated Builder

either in planning, development, or

of commercial space constructed, under

for customer satisfaction from JD Power and

permitting phase with the City of Calgary

construction, completed, and under

Associates and the Alberta Home Builders

management

Association

Over 30 SAM Awards

Best Marketing, Best Design, Best Floorplans, Best Multi Family Development in which over four thousand submissions are made from all active builders in the city of Calgary

Affordable Housing We at Truman believe in giving back to the community, social responsibility is one of our core beliefs; we follow at Truman at take most genuinely. Truman is proud to be the largest single sole contributor to the City of Calgary’s Attainable Homes Program (AHCC) that provides affordable homes to people who otherwise could not afford a home. Visit www.attainyourhome.com, for a detailed over view as to how this city of Calgary program works.

Truman has donated over 12 million dollars in contributions via over 200 brand new subsidized homes dedicated to the AHCC. Innovative programs like AHCC have enabled us at Truman to actively participate deeper in the fabric of our community.

Social Responsibility

established community. During its multi-phased program, it

Stakeholder Engagement BestPractices – West District’s ‘EngageHub’ During the pre-application master planning for West District, Truman collaborated with local planning firms who have a

offered the public access to innovative engagement infrastructure/ tactics, one-on-one dialogue with project team experts, and a physical hub rich with constantly evolving project planning and design information.

track-record of progressive stakeholder engagement. Truman

Innovation in Storm water

understood well that any proposal for change within an

Management

established community requires a genuine and transparent stakeholder engagement strategy. The proposal for West District

Innovative stormwater management is a cornerstone of a

required a socially responsible engagement program equal to

sustainable design philosophy with in Truman’s West District

the scale of the master-planned neighbourhood envisioned.

Master Plan vision. Capitalizing on unique-to-site permeable

Through 2014, Truman undertook one of the most progressive

gravels geology within Calgary’s west-end, Truman has

developer-led public engagement programs in Calgary’s

collaborated with specialized stormwater engineering firms

history, and at its centre was a purpose-built engagement

to develop a zero-off-site-discharge management solution for

space. EngageHub was an inviting and highly-accessible space

stormwater that would be wholly dependent on the most

that offered the public a unique and sustained engagement

advanced infiltration techniques. A complete departure from

environment within project site and in the heart of the local

local conventional stormwater retention/detention pond facilities,

the infiltration design solution serves to sustainably conserve

Sustainability & Design Innovation

land (otherwise required for conventional facilities), reduce significant long-term maintenance costs of conventional

Truman is a local leader in innovative

infrastructure, and most importantly, sustainably replenish

and sustainable community/building

and recharge the ground water within the localized water

design, with a focus on environmental

courses and aquifers. Truman is demonstrating municipal

and social responsibility. Highlights

and provincial leadership in stormwater best practices that is

of this leadership are by being active

lockstep with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources

participants in the Leadership in

Development’s Water for Life Initiative.

Energy & Environmental Design (LEED), which is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class

Commitment to Complete Community Building Truman understands that environmental and social

building strategies and practices for our large format mixed use developments.

Built-Green Program Participation

sustainability can only be achieved when a developer-builder is focused on realizing complete communities. Building on

Truman is a long-standing member

Truman’s legacy of the now complete Rainbow Falls master-

of the Built Green Alberta program

planned community, within the City of Chestermere, Truman

– a holistic approach that uses

is in the last stages of pre-application master planning for West

advanced technologies that considers

District (www.westdistrict.ca), a proposed Major Activity

any building a complete system.

Centre – a compact, high intensity (people and jobs), transit

Built Green certification is not

supportive, and mixed-use neighbourhood that can have

simply a static achievement for Truman, where participation

an unprecedented high-impact in implementing The City of

in the program includes continuous learning and integration of

Calgary Council’s Municipal Development Plan goals. Located

emerging best practices in all Truman projects.

on approximately 39 hectares (96 acres) of land within the Calgary communities of West Springs and Cougar Ridge, the vision is for a master-planned ‘infill’ neighbourhood comprised of a diverse range of approximately 3,500 homes, nearly 500,000 square feet mix of commercial-retail/service uses, and a spectrum of office/institutional employment uses greater than 1,200,000 square feet in size.

Project Experience

Truman Gateway 370 Units West District, Calgary Truman Gateway, will be the initial high level design introduction to Calgary for the community of West District. Beginning fall 2015 consisting of 6 Buildings, ground floor retail, and inspired contemporary facades with street level interaction, Truman Gateway will set a new standard interactive mixed use design.

Truman North 380 Units Skyview Ranch, Calgary Truman North upon its completion will exemplify true mixed use building design. With over 65,000 sq ft of retail space and all amenities encompassed on site, Truman North will be a urban village inside of an established community .

Ventus 85 Units 17th Ave S.W., Calgary Located on the heart of 17th Avenue S.W. Ventus will be the newest and most innovative mixed use landmark building to be put on 17th Avenue since the early 1970’s. Ventus recently has been approved at council on February 9th and construction will begin late 2015.

Letters of Recommendation

Thank you to West Campus Development Trust for including Truman in the opportunity to provide our request for qualification.

Our team at Truman would be honored to be part of this unique vision for Calgary, that is encompassed in West Campus.

We believe that our goals and that of the West Campus District perfectly align.

Our passion through extensive community engagement and social responsibility, unique design approaches and construction innovation, coupled with our dedicated team would undoubtedly help shape the complete community of West Campus.

I personally am really proud and excited the work WCDT has done to date, and whole heartedly recognize the importance of this development, as it sets the new development benchmark for Calgary and I would be honored to be part of it.

Respectfully, George Trutina

President Truman

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