Business View Caribbean | Volume 8, Issue 6

58 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 8, ISSUE 6 own networks enjoying the added benefit of vastly increased property values. This success harkens back to the Company’s raison d’etre; service – to families and communities. CHL’s vision in creating self-contained communities is to it, poetic in design – an interwoven tapestry of homes, offices, restaurants, shopping and entertainment centres, health care facilities and other services necessary for integrated neighbourhoods. The latest developments in Brentwood and Brookhaven, Chaguanas are excellent examples. The beauty of Brentwood Brentwood is a vibrant, mixed-use community (town centre) in central Trinidad, situated on the Eastern side of the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway with a primary catchment of about 25,000 people and secondary and tertiary markets numbering close to 270,000. As part of their vision for developing the 500- acre area that was previously home to the Edinburgh Estate, CHL began construction on the 75-acre Brentwood – a self-contained town centre/residential styled community encompassing everything from homes and offices to restaurants, health care facilities and other related community support services. The first completed part of the development is Brentwood Palms, a gated residential community comprising 80 lots of land, spread out over 13 acres, on which homeowners have constructed privately designed homes. In Brentwood, there is a synergy among homeowners, professionals, and businesspeople that creates its own sense of community. Much more than just attractive, functional architecture,