JULY 2021 several foreign deployments and postings. It was during an overseas posting that he first met Troy, when they were in the same regiment in Germany. After retiring from the Canadian Forces, Chris became the Managing Director of Allied Container Systems, the Canadian subsidiary of a major US defence contractor. He subsequently worked with some of the largest volumetric modular manufacturers in North America, focusing on hotels, apartment buildings, condos and other large, multifamily projects. Troy and Chris retired from the military in the same year, and over the course of their private sector careers, they ended up crossing paths repeatedly. “It was one of those things,” Troy recalls. “We kept bumping into each other. It seemed like it was meant to be we would end up working together.” “We always appreciated each other’s approach to business and approach to projects,” Chris says. “When we had questions – me about land development, him about modular building – we would go to each other every time.” “Because we knew we’d get the straight goods,” Troy explains. “We knew the conversations would be easy.” That shared straightforwardness – the lack of bullshit, in other words – is what ultimately inspired Troy and Chris to team up, just over a year ago. The inception was a 12-townhome project on Salt Spring Island, B.C., which Troy didn’t feel like he could manage himself. He came to Chris with an offer to partner up, Chris accepted, and that project – now known as ‘Summerside Village’ – started moving forward. That first venture directly led to another. While visiting Salt Spring Island, a realtor asked Troy and Chris to take a look at another site in the Greater Victoria area, on 244 Island Highway. They fell in love with the location and the
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