Building For The Future
Not Yesterday
Positive Environmental Impacts
Positive Economic & Social Impacts
Positive Environmental Impacts
World leading environmental design to enhance our lives, nature, the Lake and our wetlands
AVENU has invited internationally recognized environmental designer Leonard Ng, of Henning Larsen Singapore, to bring his award-winning visions to Port Perry and EQUUS.
New concepts in bird sanctuary to protect wildlife
A key focus of Leonard Ng’s vision will be nature-based solutions to lever Port Perry and the EQUUS site to a leading edge of eco-tourism and destination desirability.
Buildings that go further to reduce carbon and remediate impact
The sustainable designs for EQUUS are planned to include:
- Green roofs with higher purpose
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- Catering to endangered species
- Promoting discreet new habitats (bees, butterfly, birds)
- Community garden
- Public spaces
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- Passive cooling design
- Heat harvesting linked to geothermal technologies
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- Space heating
- Domestic hot-water production
- Walkway and road snowmelt
- Heated bus stop shelter
- Heated exterior water features & spa
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- Solar lighting
- Water recycling, water re-purposed and re-used
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- sanitary flushing
- landscape watering
- car wash
- cooling tower evaporation (use recycled, not drinking water)
- clothes washing with detergents (use recycled, not drinking water)
- wetland support during extreme summer heat and dehydration periods
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- Rainscaping to mitigate runoff towards the Lake
- Geothermal heating and cooling systems
- Solar panels
- EV Carport
- Battery storage for demand management and cost savings
- Rooftop photovoltaics
Positive Economic & Social Impacts
Positive Expansion of the Property Tax Base
To support current programs, municipal goals and reduce pressure for future tax increases.
Development Charges
Millions in development charges to support local and regional growth.
New Waste-Water Infrastructure
Installed at no cost to tax-payers or the municipality, adding paying property tax-payers without any demand on already scarce municipal waste treatment capacity. Frees up existing capacity for other developments and new commercial/business users.
Water is our most precious resource. Recycling and reusing water is the future.
New PACE-Styled, Public- Private Funding for a Healthcare Hub
Includes ancillary staff employment opportunities. Services to support wellness, aging-in-place (keeping aging adults in their own homes, out of institutional care settings. A most successful USA model, adapted from a fully private-funding model to a Canadian one, integrating publicly paid-for-services with private healthcare provisions.
New Infrastructure and Building Construction
Estimated construction and project development spending of approximately $150-175 million in the Port Perry and Durham Region area.
Economic Impact in Excess of $95.0 Million
- $37.5 – $45.5 million to Scugog Township
- $50.0 million to Durham Region
- New tax revenue to support infrastructure and public services (e.g., road repair, public trail and services upkeep)
- Estimated property taxes on 600 residences: $37.5 – $45.0 million (NPV) for Scugog Township & Durham Region
- Creating a new tourism destination
Social and Economic Value of a New Naturalist/Tourism Asset
AVENU has invited world-famous landscape and wetlands designer Leonard Ng (Henning Larsen, Singapore) to design the wetlands, new sanctuaries and open spaces including the waterfront trails.
Creation of a Remote Live/Work Housing Hub for Young Professionals
- Attracting a younger, dynamic, educated population to strengthen the future of Port Perry.
- Offering affordable places to live for those who grew-up in Scugog Township and wish to return from school and remain in their home community, the home they love.
- New purpose-built live/work-remote buildings. Rental and ownership models.
- New purpose-built 24-Apt. Family Doctors’ Residence.
- Offering fully-subsidized apartments for new-graduate Family Doctors required to live in the community for 3 years as part of the Medical Residents training.
- Lakeridge Health Corporation has indicated a desire to manage the building and to integrate the availability of subsidized housing into their unique in Canada, Family Doctor Training programme.
- In conjunction with Queen’s University Medical School
- Creating a future feeder for family doctors to remain in the local community they have experienced and learned to love for its proximity to nature, town and city.
- Lakeridge Health aspires to retain 40% of family doctor graduates in Durham Region. EQUUS proposed to be an important factor in that plan.
Advance Enhanced Mobility Design
Inspired by world-leading Toyota Mobility Foundation’s enhanced mobility principles. AVENU is supporting Toyota Mobility Foundation in its efforts to advance human mobility, at all levels. TMF thinks of enhanced mobility for everyone. The interior built environment is just the beginning. The exterior community features are every bit as important. How people, pets (and service animals), goods and services move about, how bridges and paths are accessed, how things are delivered and picked-up: all need to be woven into new thinking for mobility. TMF and AVENU hope to collaborate at every level of project design and delivery, aspiring to a community model to be emulated.
Building For The Future, Not Yesterday.