the municipality enforces, and we did that. We also navigated through all the variables and got it done.” “We maintained all the characteristics of that home’s era in construction,” he elaborates. “We sourced the materials to match the existing home. Nothing was compromised in the design and the building of the house. Maintaining and preserving that original heritage quality was very important. It slowed the construction down, but it was worth it. The place looks amazing.” MLK Properties is now working with that client again on their outside coach house and fourcar garage – which speaks to the client’s level of satisfaction with their main renovation. “The client is super happy,” Lloyd says. “So is the city, for that matter. They actually put a park bench opposite the home with a plaque commemorating our company and commemorating the customer for investing in the property and preserving the home. It was a huge kudos – not just to us, but to the customer. Not a lot of people do what they did. Most people spend a lot of money to get a building out of heritage zoning, so they don’t have to follow heritage guidelines. They did the opposite.” On the commercial side, MLK recently finished a brewery and restaurant in Kelowna for a repeat client called Britannia Brewing. That project was a design-build from scratch, comprising of a 10,000-squarefoot brewery facility, with a 250seat restaurant bolted onto the THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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