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In terms of established master-planned communities, Vancouver Island’s Fairwinds is more than a little noteworthy.

Created more than 30 years ago, the 750-acre community in Nanoose Bay — about a 20-minute drive up island from Nanaimo and its ferry crossing to the mainland — is now home to some 1,000 people. In the years ahead, however, that number is expected to grow considerably, given plans to add more than 2,000 residences, including townhomes, condos, single-family homes and waterfront rental units.

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Call it a master, master plan.

The newest addition to Fairwinds, home to a 350-berth marina and the award-winning Fairwinds Golf Club — it hosted the B.C. Junior Boys Golf Championship earlier this month — is The Westerly, an upscale 39-unit oceanfront project from Vancouver-based Seacliff Properties.

The six-storey building, with one- and two-bedroom homes ranging up to 1,800 square feet, will be a standout compared to anything constructed in the earlier phases at Fairwinds, says Julie Jaworski, marketing and communications manager at Fairwinds.