Record month of March in Dieppe
DIEPPE – The City of Dieppe had a record month of March in building permit values according to statistics released by the Building inspection department of the municipality.
The values for the third month of the year were for $7.9 million, a record in the city’s history.
The commercial sector dominated with 8 permits with values of $6.9 million. It includes a 36,000 sq foot addition to the coop building ( Uptown Dieppe ) for $4.2 million and the frame structure at Canada Post for $2 million. The residential sector was second with 15 permits for 7 units worth just over $1 million.
The best month of March was in 2006 with $3.7 million.
‘This is a second record month in 2008,’ said Mayor Maillet. ‘We almost doubled our numbers from 2006. We are ready for another busy year. ’
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Construction boom keeps rumbling in Dieppe
At least 200 new building lots to be created this year in growing city
By James Foster
Times & Transcript Staff
Published Monday April 7th, 2008
Appeared on page A1
Last month alone, more than $1 million worth of homes and apartments were built in Dieppe.
That number can only go up as construction season prepares to get under way for 2008 and it looks like subdivisions are springing up like daffodils.
"We've been averaging in the last three years a little over 200 new building lots per year," City of Dieppe spokesman Normand Leger says.
"We figure that this year we'll be around that again."
Including apartments, expect about 420 new units built in Dieppe in 2008. Most of the construction is taking place in three or four new or expanding subdivisions by less than a handful of developers but there are also lesser players extending subdivisions and streets by a few lots here and there, as well as those who are building just a few new homes on spec.
Most residential development will take place in the area of Dieppe Boulevard, from Chartersville Road southward.
"Well, where else could we expand," says Guy Bouchard of Immeubles Perfection Realty.
Earmarking that area for growth -- commercial as well as residential -- just made sense from a developer's point of view, Bouchard says, since Dieppe is landlocked to the west by the Petitcodiac River, is fully developed to the north and is bounded by Memramcook to the south. So new development could only head eastward, which is exactly what it is doing.
Perfection's 260-lot Domaine du Ruisseau mini-home park in the Lakeburn area attests to that -- it will eventually expand to about 400 lots in total.
The company's Place Beausoleil, closer to Dieppe Boulevard, will feature two 48-unit luxury apartment buildings with trails and a workshop, valued at about $9 million.
And near that the developer's Jardins Beausoleil will open up 40 lots to duplexes and commercial lots very close to Dieppe Boulevard this year alone.
The largest new subdivision to open up will be near the back nine holes of the Fox Creek Golf Club, with about 100 new lots this year being developed by Terramine Developments Inc., which created the entire golf club community in the first place, and another 24 acres of commercial development along nearby Dieppe Boulevard that will abut commercial properties being developed concurrently by Bouchard.
The commercial sector will help spur residential growth as local amenities like corner stores and personal services will be within walking distance, Michel LeBlanc of Terramine says.
Like some of the other developers, LeBlanc's new subdivision will feature a range of options, from executive-size lots to smaller, more affordable parcels, each with appropriate homes on them and with different covenants.
"This way we're catering to a wide demographic," LeBlanc says.
Little more than a decade ago, this area of Dieppe was only an empty field. The LeBlanc family saw an opportunity and invested and to look at it now, LeBlanc says, is "amazing."
Expect to also see the creation of "some high-end condos, some two- or three-storey condos and more townhouses above and beyond the ones that you see on Natalie Street and Guylaine Street," LeBlanc predicts.
The lack of For Sale signs shows development in this area is much needed, he says, as most of the homes and condos are pre-sold.
Once all three phases of construction are completed, there will be more than 200 single-family residences, townhouses and condos bordering the golf course.
Developers Tri-Dev Corporation are developing phase two this year of their Vieux Moulin subdivision, creating about 30 more lots north of Melanson Road, south of Dieppe Boulevard, as well as another 15 or 20 lots at Domaine du Faisan subdivision which is also near Melanson Road and Dieppe Boulevard.
These are not the only residential expansion plans, either, Leger says."We are going to see a few additional ones, with five, six or seven lots here and there, extensions of streets, expansions of existing subdivisions," the city spokesman says.
Those smaller developments include new duplexes off Thomas Street, a few new homes for Bonaventure Park, about 20 homes at Champlain Gardens behind the Arthur-J.-LeBlanc Arena, 10 to 15 more homes east of Amirault Street near the city limits and another 15 or 20 lots off Pelagie Street.
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it looks great, its right up to the sidewalk too, it has a great street presence and lots of glass too, very good!
. I just wanted a little touch of home.
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