What will be easy to see at Edmonton’s Pine Creek Manor is that the apartments are designed for the middle-income renter market, with amenities including air conditioning and granite counter tops.
What won’t be apparent is that Pine Creek Manor is actually an audacious experiment, a first-of-its kind 50-50 partnership between builder RMS Group and Edmonton’s Capital Region Housing Corporation, an agency formed under the Alberta Housing Act to provide affordable housing.
Most of the units in the two-building, $35-million project in the Jackson Heights neighbourhood in Edmonton’s Mill Woods area will be two-bedroom, aimed at families or individuals with roommates.
They won’t appear much different from those in RMS Group’s similar buildings.
