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Chowda7 said:
Projecting 2028 for part of the facility to open
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Work continues on new aircraft manufacturing plant east of Calgary | Globalnews.ca

De Havilland says it’s on track to open a portion of its new aircraft manufacturing plant sometime in 2028, and that a major regulatory hurdle has been recently cleared.
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From the Article: Bringing back company towns?

Sweeny adds the company is working on building a residential community just outside of Strathmore so that employees have an option of living close to the field.
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Being kind of cheeky here here. What happens to the residential community if de Havilland either closes this location or goes bankrupt? Well, either it’s Okotoks Air Ranch 2.0 or another storyline for CBC’s Still Standing! 😆

Actually, in all seriousness, that’s pretty cool. Maybe it will be something like Quarry Park that was centred around the Imperial Oil campus!
 
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What will the community will be called? Havilland?
On the topic of names, I wish they just publicly called the company De Havilland Aircraft, and only added the "Canada" to the name when talking officially. You're not going to be mistaken for the old British company which hasn't existed for decades.
 
I imagine if they build some housing it will be fairly minimal, maybe limited to a couple of 6 storey woodframe apartments, that are sort of camp style, but a step up from a camp. Any kind of standard suburban style neighborhood starts to complicate things. Strathmore is close enough and has a lot of housing options, schools, etc..
 
Roaring Flames said:
What will the community will be called? Havilland?
On the topic of names, I wish they just publicly called the company De Havilland Aircraft, and only added the "Canada" to the name when talking officially. You're not going to be mistaken for the old British company which hasn't existed for decades.
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Some possible names for the new community?

Twin Otter Peaks
Otterville
Dash Towne
 
FCC1982 said:
FWIW - The Global story on the news mentioned the housing development is not intended just for De Havilland employees but the broader community as well.
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Missed opportunity IMO.

With the state of public schooling these days, a company town that had its own charter schools could be pretty appealing, and lead to better employee retention. Given that the students would all be children of aerospace employees, the schools could also have a stronger stem focus to better prepare the next generation of aerospace engineers.
 
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