June 2015
| Business World
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Silver Beach is a gated community of luxury bungalows,
bungalofts, and spacious townhomes. It’s located on
Haliburton’s prime five-lake chain in Ontario, Canada,
and offers residents the opportunity to live the kind of
lifestyle they have always dreamed of – one of comfort,
leisure, and community.
“It’s work-free, worry-free living,” describes Gerry Kow-
alski, owner of Silver Beach Developments. “It’s cottage
life without the stress, and with all the modern conve-
niences.”
Kowalski first formed Silver Beach Developments with
a partner, right around the time they purchased 22 acres
of land near the lake in Halliburton, just five minutes
outside of town. That was in 2004. At the time, the land
hosted only an old trailer park – but it was serviced by
municipal sewers, which made it a prime location for re-
development.
“We proceeded to put together all the environmental
studies, archeological studies, cultural studies, limnol-
ogy, hydrology, geology studies – you name it,” Kowalski
says. “Over a period of nearly six years, we invested quite
a bit of money and worked towards getting our approvals
from the municipality.”
In 2009, Kowalski and his partner finally “broke ground”
on Silver Beach. They began removing the infrastructure
from the old trailer park, reshaping the land, and oth-
