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Cardel Homes
Cardel Homes is a family-owned homebuilder based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Cardel was founded in 1973 and has since grown into Calgary’s largest homebuilder, with additional operations in Ottawa, Tampa and Denver. The company has received many awards for its model home designs and builds over 1,000 homes annually throughout North America.

Brands
Several brands exist under the Cardel parent brand. Cardel’s homebuilding divisions include Cardel Lifestyles, which specializes in multi-family homes, and Cardel Resorts, which builds resort properties in the Columbia Valley, in addition to the company’s single-family homes division.

Cardel also operates a mortgage services division called Cardel Financial as well as a design division, Cardel Designs, which is based out of an 11,000 sq ft state-of-the-art design centre in Cardel’s head office, located in the southeast Calgary community of Quarry Park. The Cardel head office is also home to a fully operational design kitchen that regularly hosts gourmet dinners for customers.

Additional design centres are located in Cardel’s Ottawa, Denver and Tampa regional offices.

Cardel Foundations
Philanthropy is one of Cardel’s key operational tenets, and the company’s charitable division, Cardel Foundations, supports a wide range of non-profit initiatives that enrich communities. From breast cancer campaigns and food bank drives to programs that keep underprivileged kids in sports, Cardel provides planning, marketing and financial assistance to help build strong communities in every sense of the word.

Cardel Foundations operates Cardel Theatre, a fully equipped theatre with HD projection, theatrical Dolby Surround audio, a performance stage and 10 LCD televisions for multimedia presentations. Cardel Theatre seats 150 and is equipped to host a wide range of arts, media and business events – from film screenings, live theatre and dance performances to meetings, seminars and conferences. The theatre is available for use by registered charities and community organizations free of charge. The theatre is also available for use by business groups in exchange for a donation to the Cardel Crisis Housing Fund in support of the YWCA.

Cardel Theatre includes additional lobby and banquet space that offers standing capacity for 150 or dining capacity for 100.

Cardel University
Cardel University is a corporate university that offers two tiers of course offerings: Core Competencies and Graduate Studies. The Core Competencies courses include Cardel Fundamentals, which teaches students about corporate operations, and Office Literacy, which consists of a range of computer courses. Courses are taught by subject matter experts in seminar format.

Once a student graduates from the Core Competencies program, he or she may enroll in Cardel University Graduate Studies, whose main cog is continuing education courses through accredited post-secondary institutions and recognized professional associations.