You`re on your way home and you drive through a massive cut in the bedrock of the Canadian Shield, with spruce, maple and elm trees towering above.  You pass a small commercial building that houses your corner store, a small café and a few business offices.  Up a winding road where the shimmer of water sparkles amid the branches of the native forest and huge moss-covered boulders, you are heading home to your own private piece of paradise on the Kennebecasis River.  This is the Highlands of Drury Cove, a neighbourhood development that celebrates nature, and the brainchild of partners Scott MacDonald and Malcolm Blair.

With almost five kilometres of water-frontage, this two hundred acre parcel of land was considered by a number of developers because of its extraordinarily beautiful and unique natural surroundings.  But none could see their way past the challenges inherent in the rough terrain.  Then came the dream-team of Scott and Mac, an engineer and second generation construction guru respectively.  They took one look at the rugged hills and cliffs tumbling down to Drury Cove and pictured a community that was "Close to everything, far from ordinary".

With their backgrounds these partners could have easily capitalized on construction booms right across the country.   But after ten years away Scott recently moved back from Toronto, saying simply "I wanted to come home."

The time is right for ambitious visionaries in Saint John according to Scott.  "There`s opportunity here, right now." He says, referring to the chance for success of his development project and the market for it.  "I get about three or four calls a week, many of them from people who don`t live here.  Many of our buyers are moving here from away and will buy from us based just on the photos."

With Phase 1 of the project moving right along and plans for the following phases of development ready to go, there`s no end to their success in sight for these two innovators.  Life for the residents in the Highlands is calm and beautiful, but for the development team of Scott and Mac its go, go, go.  But then that`s living on their terms.