Welcome to the Bragg Creek Seniors Housing Society Website!
The Bragg Creek Seniors Housing project is ‘alive &
well’ … but, unfortunately, ‘on hold’ for the immediate future. We’ve been very busy exploring
design/building/financing/partnership options in the past few months. We have
fulfilled the majority of our subdivision conditions. Those which remain are County levies/taxes
required to complete the subdivision of our +/- 3 acre parcel from the parent
parcel.
Thanks to Gracemark, a local consulting company, we have a
wonderful costing package and have sent it out to builders who have expressed
an interest in working with us to build this wonderful seniors community. Due to their responses, we now have a much
better sense of our capital cost budget.
And, because our site is on the flood fringe, there are many additional
considerations/costs relating to flood risk mitigation, so we’re working to
minimize these, as well.
Our perpetual ‘Achilles heel’ is the availability of
municipal water and wastewater treatment for our project. Without
these services we cannot proceed with this project. Hence, we’re working closely with the County
staff to support them in any way we can to ensure that these services will be
available to our project. We’re also
asking you, as fellow community members, to provide your support to them so we
can ensure the completion and success of our seniors housing project.
Again, until we know the outcome of the water/wastewater
projects completion and time frame, our seniors housing project is ‘on
hold’. It just doesn’t make sense to
incur any further costs until we are assured that we will have access to
municipal water and wastewater treatment amenities.
Thank-you to our wonderful community members for your
ongoing faith, support and interest. Here’s to good news relative to the hamlet
water/wastewater treatment projects soon!
Then we will be able to complete our subdivision, hire a builder, find a
lender and we will have housing options for our seniors in the near future.
Sharon Bayer, Chair
Bragg Creek Seniors Housing Society
April 2012
