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want to accomplish,” he says.
“They also prove a lot to the
outside world,” he adds. “They
show that we’re not just good
because we say so – that our
peers are saying it too.”
Nick credits the wave of awards
for the Anzio project, in partic-
ular, to the uniqueness of the
design.
“The street it was on allowed
for a lot of opportunity,” he ex-
plains. “There wasn’t any estab-
lished design language. There
were a lot of buildings that
were going to be knocked down
in a few years, there were some
newer renovations, but there
was nothing consistent. So we
could go out and be the start of
something new there. We could
set a new trend.”
“We had the opportunity to do
something a bit special, a bit
different, something modern,”
he adds. “So we went full out
and designed something that
would really stand out.”
Nick also credits the innovation
they displayed in environmen-
tal technology – which is some-
thing they aim to display in all
their projects.
“Everything we design is well
above the required standards
in Vancouver, which are already
pretty high,” he says. “In ev-
erything we do, we try to push
boundaries and increase envi-
ronmental performance.”
Moving forward, Project Mint
Developments will continue
to push those boundaries and
hopefully earn awards – ideally,
on larger and larger projects as
time goes by. Nick says the goal
is to grow progressively bigger,
to steadily take on projects with
more units and storeys. Eventu-
ally, he hopes to be doing proj-
ects up to 10-storeys, either
multi-family or mixed-use.
At the same time, he says, the
company will always prioritize
sustainability and innovation.
“We are always going to be for-
ward thinking,” Nick concludes.
“On every project, we are al-
ways going to be doing some-
thing a bit different, something
ahead of the curve. We’re never
just going to build the standard
thing.”
APRIL 2019