A $23-million construction project at CFB Esquimalt has boosted the spirits of Victoria-area contractors eager to compete for the job. “It’s a great shot in the arm, especially right now,” Peter White, chairman of the Vancouver Island Construction Association, told the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper Monday. Construction jobs in the region have been hard to come [...]
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New Homes and Recreational Homes in BC Get HST Relief
The provincial government has announced the end of the HST and introduced transitional tax changes designed to help the province’s real estate and home construction industries in the meantime. BC will raise its new-housing HST rebate threshold to $850,000 from the current $525,000 to help offset the cost of the HST, until it is scrapped [...]
Nominees Sought for Commercial Construction Awards on Vancouver Island
The Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB) is seeking nominations to celebrate the best in commercial, mutli-family, and institutional building on Vancouver Island. March 16 is the closing date to have nominations submitted. A PDF version of the nomination form can be downloaded here. The organizers are looking for submissions in the following categories: Mixed Use for [...]
Expert Residential and Commercial Plumbing From Dale’s Plumbing and Mechanical
Dale’s Plumbing and Mechnical in the Comox Valley specializes in residential and commercial plumbing. Dale’s Plumbing and Mechanical has been doing business in the Comox Valley for more than 30 years and boasts an on-time completion rate of 96% over that time. This plumbing and gas fitting contractors’ quality workmanship has earned Dale’s a reputation [...]
New Townhomes for Piercy Avenue in Courtenay
McQueen Construction in the Comox Valley is building a new townhome development on Piercy Avenue in Courtenay, Vancouver Island. This new real estate project is expected to be built in two phases with four townhouses and two duplexes for a total of 10 new Courtenay homes. The townhomes and duplexes will feature three different floor plans which will include [...]
Sooke Development Gets Green Light for Phase Two
Sooke‘s largest construction project received approval for its second phase this week. Mariner’s Village is a $300-million mixed-use waterfront project that is expected to transform the small Vancouver Island community of about 11,400 when completed over the built over the next two years. The completed development will consist of 110,000 square feet of commercial space, 30,000 [...]
Comox Valley Realtor Tina Vincent Feature Listing: Home With Legal Suite in Comox
Comox Valley realtor Tina Vincent of Royal LePage in the Comox Valley has a listing for a home for sale in Comox with a legal, two bedroom suite. Located at 834 Highwood Drive in the desirable Foxxwood subdivision, the home offers fantastic views, with a three-bedroom home on the top floor, and an almost new, wheelchair [...]
Nutmeg Homes Ready to Build Eco-Friendly Living Roofs
The Comox Valley features a showpiece example of an environmentally friendly green roof on top of the newly-opened Vancouver Island Visitor Centre in Cumberland. The innovative roof was installed by Comox new home builder Paul Witt of Nutmeg Homes. Witt is an enthusiast for green roofs – or ‘living roofs’ as he prefers to call them – and [...]
Saratoga Beach Development Granted Approvals
A significant residential development at Saratoga Beach on Vancouver Island has finally been approved – more than five years after the company owning the land first applied for permission. The Comox Valley Regional District has passed final readings of zoning and community plan bylaws for the 143-lot project at the end of McLary Drive. Because [...]
New Apartment Building Boosts Nanaimo Construction Starts
A 121-unit apartment development gave a boost to an otherwise slow January for Nanaimo‘s new home construction industry. The four storey building going up on at 775 Terminal Ave. propped up the latest new housing starts report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Single-family home starts were flat from January 2011, with a total of [...]
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