Bow Valley College donors Wayne, O.C., and Eleanor Chiu have been given the 2016 Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) Benefactor Award at the CASE Conference for Community College Advancement in San Diego, United States, from October 5-7, 2016.

The CASE Benefactor Award recognizes individuals, foundations or businesses for outstanding contributions to community colleges. Recipients embody the ideals of philanthropy, leadership and volunteerism in the service of community, technical and junior colleges. The Chius were the first Canadians to receive this award in 13 years.

Read the full announcement here.

Being first to buy, [Katherine] McNaught had her pick of Verona’s first release. She chose a corner unit with a walkout basement. Her home is one of the southernmost units that back on to a scenic environmental reserve. The opposite side of the environmental reserve has Trico’s apartment-style Viridian condo development.

As a dog owner, the walkout was appealing because of its quick access to the outdoors. She owns a schnauzer pug cross named Cruz.

Before deciding Verona was where she wanted to live, McNaught made comparisons. She measured the specifications against what was offered at other townhome sites in northwest Calgary.

“The standard package they offered was better than what I saw in a lot of the other places I was looking at for that price,” says McNaught, singling out the granite counters, stainless steel appliances and blinds package as personal favourites.

Read more about Katherine’s story here in the Calgary Herald.

A new rental apartment building to be built in inner-city Mount Pleasant will help address the need for affordable and accessible home options in Calgary.

Trico Homes held a sod-turning celebration for its 44-unit Delaney development earlier this month. The building will be located on 8th Street and 17th Ave. N.W., with 12 apartments earmarked as affordable, which means they’ll be rented for 10 percent less than the average market rate through Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Ten of those 12 will be wheelchair accessible.

Read the full article here in the Calgary Herald.

For the seventh year in a row, Trico Homes has once again been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work Institute Canada, a global research, consulting and training firm that helps organizations identify, create and sustain great workplaces through the development of high-trust workplace cultures.

Trico Homes has also been recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Women in Canada for the second year running!

“This year’s Best Workplaces are Canada’s leaders in building high-trust organizational cultures and advancing best-in-class management practices to fully engage their workforces, delight their customers and contribute to their communities.” – Jose Tolovi Neto, Managing Partner, Great Place to Work Institute Canada

We are thrilled and honoured to receive this prestigious award! We at Trico have built our corporate culture around our commitment to our customers. We believe in supporting the community by developing core skills and knowledge within our family of employees, and “Using Business as a Force for Good”, as per the B Corporation Declaration.

Best Workplaces for Women

We are honoured to be recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Women in Canada. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, with female representation on our board of directors and part of our workforce, and a strong focus on recruiting and hiring women, supporting women’s careers and professional development, maternity and parental support, as well as flexibility at work, as per the Great Place to Canada’s Workplace Gender Gaps – more information is available on this topic here.

Thank you to everyone who makes Trico Homes a Great Place to Work – this includes our employees, management, and our community.

For some people, the value of a large kitchen can’t be overstated.

It’s that functional space for preparing a big meal, and hub for family to gather around the island and reconnect after a long day of work or school.

A generous cooking space is one of the reasons the Parkside is Trico Homes’ top-selling duplex floor plan in Midtown, where it’s displayed as a show home.

Read the full article here in the Calgary Herald.

The open-concept is a smart design for connecting people in the kitchen with other social spaces on the main floor. But when preparing an aroma-filled cuisine or any dish that’ll leave a mess, it’s handy to be tucked away.

The Winston by Trico Homes has an answer for this with an add-on displayed in its show home in northwest Calgary. Just off the primary kitchen is a large spice kitchen.

Along with the aforementioned reasons for the additional kitchen, it would also be a welcome feature for anyone who needs the expanded cooking space, such as people with large families or those who regularly host sizeable gatherings. Then there are people who own a catering or baking business.

“We have homeowners that also like to take advantage of having a spice kitchen to cook more food — such as an additional place to have a turkey cook, while the main kitchen can be used to cook a ham or lasagna. It allows for more family and friends to be in the main kitchen without worrying about congestion.”

Read the full article here in the Calgary Herald.

Trico Homes was named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies in 2015 for excellence in business performance.

Sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC, National Post, Queen’s School of Business and MacKay CEO Forums, the Best Managed award recognizes Canadian owned and managed companies with revenues over $10 million for sustained growth, financial performance, management practices and the efforts of the entire organization.

“Our company has worked hard to develop smart business practices backed by a strong leadership team and an elevated corporate culture, tools that are fuelling our success. It feels great to have a team that makes our business a recognized best-managed company — again.”

Read the full article here in the Calgary Herald.

When Shauna Creagh stepped into home ownership, she didn’t just think about her needs today, but how the place would bring her value down the road.

Whether that’s one day using it as a rental, or when the time comes for her to find something larger and list it on the resale market, she wanted a shrewd investment. Livingstone Townes hit the mark on a number of levels.

The Trico Communities freehold townhome development is in the southeast community of Legacy.

“They have no condo fees, which is amazing,” says Creagh. As a freehold development, the buyer owns and is responsible for the exterior of the residence and yard. And they don’t have to pay monthly fees to a condo board.

Read more about Shauna’s story here in the Calgary Herald.

An abundance of windows and high-end touches in the kitchen and ensuite helps make Trico Homes’ new move-up model stand tall.

The Winston is a 2,515-square-foot home with a two-car front-attached garage in the northwest community of Nolan Hill. Master-planned by United Communities, Nolan Hill is located in the city’s amenity-stocked Symons Valley corridor.

Read the full article here in the Calgary Herald.