Request for Qualification, Category 4 Direct Control Commercial – Corridor 1 ( C-COR1)
Truman specifically understands our agreement to accept and comply with the Terms and Conditions of the Request for Qualification the “RFQ” process. This submission is prepared for Category 4: Direct Control Commercial – Corridor 1 ( C-COR1) We acknowledge that upon being shortlisted Truman will provide confidential evidence of our financial capacity to design, build and deliver product prior to being invited to take part in the request for proposal (the “RFP”). We agree that we will sign a non-disclosure agreement in the event of being shortlisted as part of this RFQ.
Submission Category 4 Direct Control Commercial – Corridor 1 ( C-COR1)
The Truman Group is comprised of Truman Development Corporation, Truman Homes and Lionsworthe Homes. The pioneer of our organization was Truman Homes, which started by building homes over 30 years ago in the Chestermere area, just outside Calgary. The creation of these two additional organizations along with the success of Truman Homes within the home building industry has allowed the Truman Group to pursue other avenues within the real estate industry. More specifically, creating complete communities from raw land to fully serviced developments that are sustainably master planned with thoughtful built form.
Corporate Vision & Values
Our executive management team has grown to encompass over 120 years of experience in all aspects of the development and building industry. Our depth of experience, knowledge and ingenuity, are the key elements as to how Truman continually delivers highly successful and sought after developments to market. Our group of companies is also very active within the industry and with industry groups. Currently we are members of the Alberta New Home Warranty Program, Built Green, Better Business Bureau, Canadian Home Builders Association, Professional Home Builders Association, UDI, and the Urban Land Institute. Our vision for the last 30 years for Truman has been to build a better Calgary, through vibrant neighbourhoods. Truman prides themselves in creating a lively mix of people, jobs and activities created through the developments we build. Developments where local residents would have a chance to live, work, shop and play year round.
Truman exemplifies this through our core values of creating comfortable building design with thoughtful building form. In turn, creating welcoming, attractive, safe and complete communities. These values are exemplified by our completed and upcoming bodies of work. We at Truman feel our values align perfectly with that of West Campus. As a master builder, Truman works hand in hand with our clients to design and build world class developments. Specializing in: multifamily and mixed use developments, commercial developments, executive and contemporary homes, and full spectrum residential communities. Our impeccable reputation is unmatched in the industry, and has been carefully achieved through our precise attention to detail and quality control. We at Truman believe that by following evolving and innovative design and building approaches it has enabled us to differentiate our brand, our products, and our team. Our commitment to ever evolving our company and our thought processes, has enabled us to achieve industry leading product completion time lines while maintaining the highest level of both quality and customer satisfaction in the industry. Over the next fifteen years our immediate corporate vision is to continue to be a champion of innovative urban design strategies. This vision is encompassed in our current legacy development named West District (www.westdistrict.ca). West District upon completion will comprise of over 3,500 dwelling units, over 7,000 people, 500,000 sq ft of retail and, 1.2 million square feet of office space.
The following is a brief overview of our current achievements
Highlights & Accolades
1930 Multi-family Units
894 Multi-family Units
Thousands of Single Family Homes
completed to date
currently under construction
completed to date
Over 2100 Units
1.2 Million Square Feet
Last 3 Years the Highest Rated Builder
either in planning, development, or
of commercial space constructed, under
for customer satisfaction from JD Power and
permitting phase with the City of Calgary
construction, completed, and under
Associates and the Alberta Home Builders
management
Association
Over 30 SAM Awards
Best Marketing, Best Design, Best Floorplans, Best Multi Family Development in which over four thousand submissions are made from all active builders in the city of Calgary
Affordable Housing We at Truman believe in giving back to the community, social responsibility is one of our core beliefs; we follow at Truman at take most genuinely. Truman is proud to be the largest single sole contributor to the City of Calgary’s Attainable Homes Program (AHCC) that provides affordable homes to people who otherwise could not afford a home. Visit www.attainyourhome.com, for a detailed over view as to how this city of Calgary program works. Truman has donated over 12 million dollars in contributions via over 200 brand new subsidized homes dedicated to the AHCC. Innovative programs like AHCC have enabled us at Truman to actively participate deeper in the fabric of our community.
Social Responsibility
established community. During its multi-phased program, it
Stakeholder Engagement BestPractices – West District’s ‘EngageHub’ During the pre-application master planning for West District, Truman collaborated with local planning firms who have a
offered the public access to innovative engagement infrastructure/ tactics, one-on-one dialogue with project team experts, and a physical hub rich with constantly evolving project planning and design information.
track-record of progressive stakeholder engagement. Truman
Innovation in Storm water
understood well that any proposal for change within an
Management
established community requires a genuine and transparent stakeholder engagement strategy. The proposal for West District
Innovative stormwater management is a cornerstone of a
required a socially responsible engagement program equal to
sustainable design philosophy with in Truman’s West District
the scale of the master-planned neighbourhood envisioned.
Master Plan vision. Capitalizing on unique-to-site permeable
Through 2014, Truman undertook one of the most progressive
gravels geology within Calgary’s west-end, Truman has
developer-led public engagement programs in Calgary’s
collaborated with specialized stormwater engineering firms
history, and at its centre was a purpose-built engagement
to develop a zero-off-site-discharge management solution for
space. EngageHub was an inviting and highly-accessible space
stormwater that would be wholly dependent on the most
that offered the public a unique and sustained engagement
advanced infiltration techniques. A complete departure from
environment within project site and in the heart of the local
local conventional stormwater retention/detention pond facilities,
the infiltration design solution serves to sustainably conserve
Sustainability & Design Innovation
land (otherwise required for conventional facilities), reduce significant long-term maintenance costs of conventional
Truman is a local leader in innovative
infrastructure, and most importantly, sustainably replenish
and sustainable community/building
and recharge the ground water within the localized water
design, with a focus on environmental
courses and aquifers. Truman is demonstrating municipal
and social responsibility. Highlights
and provincial leadership in stormwater best practices that is
of this leadership are by being active
lockstep with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources
participants in the Leadership in
Development’s Water for Life Initiative.
Energy & Environmental Design (LEED), which is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class
Commitment to Complete Community Building Truman understands that environmental and social
building strategies and practices for our large format mixed use developments.
Built-Green Program Participation
sustainability can only be achieved when a developer-builder is focused on realizing complete communities. Building on
Truman is a long-standing member
Truman’s legacy of the now complete Rainbow Falls master-
of the Built Green Alberta program
planned community, within the City of Chestermere, Truman
– a holistic approach that uses
is in the last stages of pre-application master planning for West
advanced technologies that considers
District (www.westdistrict.ca), a proposed Major Activity
any building a complete system.
Centre – a compact, high intensity (people and jobs), transit
Built Green certification is not
supportive, and mixed-use neighbourhood that can have
simply a static achievement for Truman, where participation
an unprecedented high-impact in implementing The City of
in the program includes continuous learning and integration of
Calgary Council’s Municipal Development Plan goals. Located
emerging best practices in all Truman projects.
on approximately 39 hectares (96 acres) of land within the Calgary communities of West Springs and Cougar Ridge, the vision is for a master-planned ‘infill’ neighbourhood comprised of a diverse range of approximately 3,500 homes, nearly 500,000 square feet mix of commercial-retail/service uses, and a spectrum of office/institutional employment uses greater than 1,200,000 square feet in size.
Project Experience
Truman Gateway 370 Units West District, Calgary Truman Gateway, will be the initial high level design introduction to Calgary for the community of West District. Beginning fall 2015 consisting of 6 Buildings, ground floor retail, and inspired contemporary facades with street level interaction, Truman Gateway will set a new standard interactive mixed use design.
Truman North 380 Units Skyview Ranch, Calgary Truman North upon its completion will exemplify true mixed use building design. With over 65,000 sq ft of retail space and all amenities encompassed on site, Truman North will be a urban village inside of an established community .
Ventus 85 Units 17th Ave S.W., Calgary Located on the heart of 17th Avenue S.W. Ventus will be the newest and most innovative mixed use landmark building to be put on 17th Avenue since the early 1970’s. Ventus recently has been approved at council on February 9th and construction will begin late 2015.
Letters of Recommendation
Thank you to West Campus Development Trust for including Truman in the opportunity to provide our request for qualification. Our team at Truman would be honored to be part of this unique vision for Calgary, that is encompassed in West Campus. We believe that our goals and that of the West Campus District perfectly align. Our passion through extensive community engagement and social responsibility, unique design approaches and construction innovation, coupled with our dedicated team would undoubtedly help shape the complete community of West Campus. I personally am really proud and excited the work WCDT has done to date, and whole heartedly recognize the importance of this development, as it sets the new development benchmark for Calgary and I would be honored to be part of it. Respectfully, George Trutina
President Truman
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