A recessed front entry with a full-height door, timber screen and stone threshold.

A portrait of Paul follows. Shown: 2532 Toronto Crescent.

Paul Calles · President

The builder

Paul Calles is the president of Riverside Developments. He has been building in Calgary since 2003, long enough that most of the tradesmen and designers on a Riverside site have been working with him for years rather than for the job.

The approach is hands-on and deliberately small. Paul is on site every week of a build, which means the person who quoted the work is the person answering questions about it, and the answer does not have to travel through an office first.

Riverside builds new custom homes and takes on substantial renovations, historical restorations, second storey additions and complete remodels — most of them in inner-city Calgary, on lots where what is already there matters as much as what is going up.

The relationship does not end at handover. Several of the reviews on this site were written years after the keys changed hands, and a number of Riverside’s clients have built with Paul more than once.

The firm

Excellence
Over twenty years of custom homes in Calgary, and the same standard applied to every one of them regardless of size.
Quality
Good materials and careful workmanship, chosen so the house still reads well in ten years rather than only on handover day.
Integrity
Honest quoting at the start and standing behind the work afterwards. Clients here are quoted what a build costs, not what it takes to win it.

Where we build

St Andrews Heights, University Heights, Rosedale, Bearspaw / Church Ranches, Roxboro, Rosemont, Confederation Park, Britannia, Elbow Park, Parkdale, Briar Hill, Post Hill Estates, and Foothills Estates.

A hallway vignette — a low oak console beneath a framed landscape, against hand-finished plaster.

Build with Riverside Developments, you will not be disappointed.