East-West Partners wins kudos for wildlife plan
Colorado-based East-West Partners last year bought a major real-estate development in Canmore called Three Sisters Village.
It was, and is, only partially completed.
East-West is a major presence along Colorado’s I-70 corridor, in Utah’s Park City, and California’s Truckee-Tahoe area.
But this was its first foray into Canada, and the Canmore area was apprehensive.
Not helping anything was the recent news that East West had been fined significantly for allowing construction activities to muddy a creek in California with sediment, harming the fishery.
But the Rocky Mountain Outlook notes it likes what it sees.
East-West has announced it is reducing its density and also has hired two of the most respected wildfire watchers in the valley to figure out where the third and final wildlife corridor should be based on what undeveloped land remains.
This, says the newspaper, is very much unlike the previous ownership. Wildlife corridors were previously chosen based on whether the land had any value for houses, the story indicated.
Land without commercial value, such as steep hillsides, was then designated as that area designed for wildlife, without any consideration whether it was useful to wildlife, either.
“Today, however, a new dawn seems to have arrived,” proclaimed the paper.
