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Life beginsatHalcyon
Summer - 2013
A message from the Joint Managing Directors Opening our final newsletter for 2013 seems an opportune time to reflect on the year that has been at Halcyon. It has been a time of growth, new opportunities and recognition for the Halcyon team – we are pleased to have launched two new projects and reached major milestones at our existing communities during the year. The Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA), Qld
Awards for Excellence were an absolute highlight
Halcyon’s Joint Managing Directors Bevan Geissmann and Paul Melville
As directors, the best part of our
owners participate; the Queensland
job is seeing our home owners’
Plan, where 200 people from
Landing winning four awards, the most of any
lives change for the better when
Halcyon Landing, Halcyon Parks and
developer on the night, including the state’s top
they move to Halcyon. With the
Halcyon Waters came together to
development accolade – the President’s Award.
ongoing development of Halcyon
brainstorm responses posed under
Landing and completion and sell-out
the State Government initiative;
of Halcyon Waters, we’ve had the
and Shave for a Cure, where we
of the year, where we saw the hard work and dedication of our team culminate in Halcyon
It has also been a year of firsts – we became the first retirement community developer to win the President’s Award in Queensland, and Halcyon Landing was the first over 50s
privilege of welcoming many new faces to the Halcyon family. The
raised more than $14,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation after 24 home owners and staff got brave
community in Australia to achieve full six-leaf
sense of community within each
EnviroDevelopment certification from the UDIA.
of our projects has strengthened
The most gratifying part has been seeing our
with a number of great events in
On the development front, Halcyon
home owners wholeheartedly embrace our green
2013, including the Gold Coast and
Landing is halfway through its
philosophy and reap tangible benefits from their
Sunshine Coast Marathons where
construction phase with around 150...
energy-efficient homes.
we had record numbers of home
and shaved in March.
Continued over leaf
inside:
Two new communities launched pages 2 & 4
Halcyon takes home UDIA gold page 3
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‘Paragon’, the jewel in the crown page 7 1
Australia’s healthiest communities page 8