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  • How resizing doesn’t feel like downsizing at Retreat

    For countless Calgarians reaching retirement, continuing to own a huge multi-floor home with an enormous yard simply isn’t practical anymore. Why spend all that money and effort on maintaining space that’s not even being used?

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  • The Benefits of Nautilus Ponds

    From environmental benefits to supporting an active lifestyle, nautilus ponds can bring a lot of added value to a community. Once you understand how many jobs a single water feature can serve, it’s hard to understate their impact.

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  • The Buzz about Bees in our Communities

    Bringing in more honeybees and other pollinators can help our communities’ plant life flourish and help keep populations from declining.

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  • Simple Tips for a Simple Zen Space

    Truly, any space around your home or community can help facilitate the calm and relaxing we need to better handle our stress and live with a better emotional state.

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  • Calgary is the Place to Be!

    Life blossoms in Calgary all year long! Embracing winter is only one part of what makes this city and its people so great. It’s an everyday attitude that says, “yes we can,” and finds the opportunities to add something more to people’s lives.

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  • Quality of the most important thing there is: Life

    We build communities for life. That means creating connections, experiences and places that will make a real difference to our residents’ lives.

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  • 7 Healthy Planning Principles

    Discover what Brookfield focuses on to promote health and wellness within the planning and design stage for each community.

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  • Livability and Placemaking in Our Communities

    Imagine living in a place where you could walk everywhere – to work, the gym, your friends place, a coffee shop, the grocery store. Would you want to live there?

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  • 21 Habits to Start Today

    Our habits are the foundation of who we are and how we live, and they can be heavily influenced by our environment and the community we live in.

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