Cantiro moves into the Calgary market​on February 6, 2025 at 6:24 pm

Edmonton-based Cantiro has announced that it’s venturing into the Calgary marketplace, parlaying its award-winning expertise into the multi-family development sphere and bringing on Chris Johnstone as director of multi-family to drive the company’s strategic growth and lead a portfolio of developments across Western Canada.

“We are excited to welcome Chris to the Cantiro family as we continue to expand our multi-family operations,” says Paul Fereday, executive vice-president, multi-family for Cantiro. “Chris’s extensive experience and commitment to excellence align perfectly with Cantiro’s mission to deliver vibrant and thriving communities.”

Cantiro, which is celebrating its 30^th anniversary this year and wears several hats from land developer to single-family builder, multi-family builder and commercial developer, has been turning heads for a number of years with its long-list of accolades and awards.

In 2023, it won four of the top awards at the CHBA-Edmonton Region Awards of Excellence including Single-Family Builder of the Year-Large Volume; Multi-Family Builder of the Year (for the third year in a row); Best Community-The Hills at Charlesworth in southeast Edmonton; and Industry Leadership.

Bild Edmonton Metro, a recent amalgamation of CHBA-Edmonton Region and UDI-Edmonton Metro, just released its list of finalists for the 2025 Awards of Excellence in Housing, with Cantiro picking up 28 nominations in a variety of categories from best advertising to industry leadership, safety excellence, best new community, best multi-family, best townhome, best sales and best single-family home. Last year it picked up 16 finalist spots.

The Calgary expansion adds to Cantiro’s ventures outside of the Edmonton marketplace. It also has multi-family offerings in the Kitchener/Waterloo area in Ontario, a collection of luxury single-family homes on Kalamalka Lake in the Okanagan and is building single-family homes in West Hawk in Cochrane, a community it is also developing.

Fereday says that the goal within the Calgary marketplace is to provide extensive and diverse opportunities for both home ownership and rental.

“Calgary was just the next logical step for us. There are a lot of synergies between Edmonton and Calgary; we understand the market and that expertise is transferable,” he says.

Cantiro’s first project in Calgary, Arbour Lake West, a collection of 136 one- and two-bedroom stacked townhomes and three-bedroom, three-storey townhomes with attached garages, is well underway with roads paved, services in, foundations on 36 of the homes poured and framing begun in the established community of Arbour Lake in Calgary’s northwest.