The Construction Source

Town of Paradise | 3 in Atlantic Canada. Not so many years ago, as a small bedroom community on the outskirts of the Provincial Capital of St. John’s, Paradise was made home by a population comprised by a little more than 4,000 people, but today that number has grown to more than 20,000. At the same time, when considering its proximity to communities such as Conception Bay South, Mount Pearl as well as St. John’s, Paradise is tied to a regional population that equates closer to 200,000 people. Paradise Chief Administrative Of- ficer Rodney Cumby credits growth in Paradise to industrial advances affiliated with the oil and gas industry, as well as constraints to growth in other communi- ties which has basically forced expansion into Paradise. The community has capi- talized on increasing residential construc- tion, and Cumby notes that much of that housing is made home by young families. While the average age here is only 35 years old, Cumby says Paradise also has a growing senior population. And as to be expected, as the residential sector has