Single Family 9,000 square foot mansion with 9 car garage going up west of Calgary

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Does anybody really need a house this big?  Two guardhouses! Okay, if you got millions of dollars I guess you have to spend it.

CTV

It looks like a new hotel along a highway but this can’t-miss construction project turning heads just west of Calgary is a huge single-family home.

It’s been under construction for months on Highway 22, just north of the Highway 8 roundabout, and it’s so large that neighbours and people on social media can’t stop talking about it.

According to property records obtained by CTV Calgary, the two-storey home, set on 80 acres, will be 11,000-square-feet when it is complete.

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It will also have a nine-car garage, seven fireplaces and two guardhouses that are formidably sized on their own.

The home is being built by Jager Homes and documents list its value at $3,159,594. The cost of permits alone is more than $10,000.

People living in the area and passersby have reacted negatively to the lavish home.

Rhonda Phillips wrote to the Cochrane Eagle, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more grotesque and narcissistic tribute to the owner’s ego in my life. Not to mention that it couldn’t be more out of place unless it was built in the middle of some of the slum areas of a third world country.”

Others on chatboards and social media have marveled at its size.  A post on the Calgarypuck forum, “Flabbibulin” says it’s, “the biggest bloody house I have ever seen!,” while “OzyFlame” dubbed it, “overly hedonistic,” and “jaydorn” asks, “That’s a house?! Drove by there last month and just thought it was a weird place for a hotel/condos. But a single family home?”

While the wooden structure of the building is up, and solar panels are visible on the roof, it appears finishing work is still far from over.

Neighbours tell CTV News that an iron fence has surrounded the property for about two years. Building permits were applied for in July, 2013.

There’s no word on a completion date.

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