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Desrochers Village: 'This is the
right spot'
LAURA SEVERS Updated: December 13, 2019
Desrochers Village features a pond with pathways. S U P P L I E D/ P O S T M E D I A
East of Chappelle, south of Paisley and west of Al
another popular growing southwest neighbour
awaits.
Part of Heritage Valley, which consists of more than a dozen different
communities including the aforementioned areas, is Desrochers
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Villages, described as chart-topping for this part of Edmonton
“It is the best-selling community in Heritage Valley,” said Chris Nicholas
president of MLC Group, the project’s developer. “It’s the most popula
choice here. People love the way it looks, kids can walk to school, and
all the shopping needs can be found in the greater area.”
While those are important factors contributing to the attractiveness
Desrochers Villages, another key aspect is the Desrochers forest. With
some 11 acres of preserved forest, residents in Desrochers live next to
an area that is being left as is in order to bring them closer to nature
“Everything has been built around the forest and will continue to extend
outward,” said Madeline Belter, MLC’s marketing and sales co-ordinator
“The forest is adjacent to the kindergarten to Grade 9 public school, and
our newest phase this year (Phase 15) has walkout lots backing onto
the forest. It is the heart of the community, connecting the older phase
to the school, to the pond, and to the newer phases.”
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Desrochers Villages came to life when servicing began in 2015. Four
years in, the neighbourhood is about halfway completed with 1,700
residents living in a variety of housing types ranging from front-attache
garage homes, rear lane homes, duplexes, townhomes and four– and
six-storey walk-ups. Similar housing will be built in upcoming phases
Homes here are solar ready, and the community also includes 11 acres
of constructed wetland.
Rear-lane homes start in the $340,000s, while front attached garage
homes can be purchased in the low $400,000s. Builders in Desrochers
include Jayman Built, Landmark Homes, Pacesetter Homes, Sterling
Homes and Streetside Developments.
The Perfect Spot
Akram Khan and his wife were in the market for a new single-family
home.
They discovered Desrochers Villages while out driving around searching
new communities, and that’s when their hunt stopped. It wasn’t the fir
neighbourhood they looked at but they quickly realized they wouldn
need to look anywhere else.
“We saw lots there for sale and the lot we saw, in the back had a nice
big pond,” said Khan, about the piece of land they would ultimately build
on. Back then, the question was whether the lot was still available and
what type of home could they build.
After getting all the information — they dealt with Jayman Built’s Liz
Bolduc, the area sales manager, who showed them Jayman’s Reunite
show home — Khan and his wife made the decision right then and there
to move forward and they’re glad they did.
“At that time when I saw the lot, if I’m not mistaken, there were only
about three or four houses that were starting to be built,” said Khan. “So
I told my wife, this is the right place. If we try to say we’ll think about it o
we’ll see until next month this lot will be gone like immediately. And afte
we took that lot, trust me, not even three months (later) they starte
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filling up all the lots there like fast, fast, fast.”
As opposed to other communities the couple saw, they felt Desrochers
was more spacious; other sub-divisions seemed too compact with
everything to close together or roads both in front and near the back o
the houses, which they thought was just too noisy and not what they
wanted.
The home the Khans would build was the same as the Reunite show
home, which features open to above space over the great room giving it
a full two-storey ceiling, with lots of oversized windows. The Khans,
meanwhile, have a glass wall, a 10 foot by eight foot sliding door
system, which features four glass panels. The outer two panels are fixed
and both centre panels slide open for a 60-inch opening with screens
“The fountains on the pond are beautiful in summertime and can be fully
enjoyed with this feature,” said Bolduc.
The home has three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, walk-through
laundry from the owners’ walk-in closet and energy efficiencies that save
$800 to $1,000 year in energy costs
“It’s perfect for us,” said Khan about their new home, which they moved
into this past summer. Khan also had high praise for Bolduc, who he
said went the extra mile for them.
Neighbourhood Naming
Desrochers Villages takes its name from the late Louis Desrochers
Born in Montreal in 1928, he would eventually move to Jasper and
relocate to Edmonton a few years later. According to City of Edmonton
Naming Committee material for honouring people and places
Desrochers, a lawyer, was the first chair of the Edmonton General
Hospital Foundation, now known as the Caritas Hospital Foundation
He also played a prominent role in Edmonton’s francophone community
helping found Edmonton’s French language radio station known as
CHFA. He was named to the Order of Canada in 1994 and the Alberta
Order of Excellence in 2001.
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