About Us

Welcome to Due North Housing.

Due North Housing is a modular home manufacturer and community projects developer focused on providing quality affordable housing for the North.

Our end product is well-built and environmentally-conscious housing.

Projects in Iroquois Falls are headed by Regional Vice President Gilles Giguere, a true northern and community-minded citizen from the Falls. DNH continues to work with its partners to construct its manufacturing facility, enter production, and build a local subdivision. 

Our Mission Statement.

To provide quality affordable housing for the age of inflation, rising labour costs, and higher interest rates.

To provide safe, suitable, and environmentally-friendly housing developed and built by people of the North.

Due North Expertise

  • Due North is experienced in working with communities of different cultures and types, both large and small.
  • The Due North team combines business and logistical skills with knowledge and understanding of problems working in the Canadian North.
  • Through our contacts and working relationships, we are connected with all three levels of government; industries such as mines, pipelines, and utilities; and professionals such as real estate evaluators and analysts.
  • Property development and engineering  skills, as well as property sales, leasing, and redevelopment in northern areas for students, seniors, and other underserved groups.

Due North Successes

  • First contract awarded by Government of Ontario to a CRE agency. Securing a quasi-sovereign guarantee. 
  • A small town’s certification of appreciation. 
  • Developing and influencing relations between landowners and land users (mines, pipelines, utilities).
  • Utilizing real estate valuators and analysts using techniques and in-depth study of all aspects affecting value, whether environmental and meteorological, economic, at the community level, or societal. 
  • Completing projects on time and within budget, ensuring that students were not subject to delays in starting their school year.

Our Team

Graydon Rodgers

Graydon Rodgers began his career as an appraiser and surveyor for Ontario Hydro in Northern Ontario. Over a 40-year career span, there isn’t a city, town, or community he has not worked in, went fishing and hunting in, made friends in. This experience has provided Graydon with significant knowledge of Northern Ontario, especially with regards to housing needs and the communities at risk in this region of Canada.

Konstantin Parilov

Konstantin Parilov is a 30+ year veteran of civil and residential construction in the Siberina taiga and the concrete jungles of Toronto. His contributions include design engineering, mechanical and electrical contracting, as well as a complete range of heavy construction capabilities. Initially, Konstantin, in his position as Co-CEO, shall manage the formation of the Site Preparation and Assembly Group that shall also include a Channel Development Task Force. The latter’s focus is to begin accumulating channel intelligence on any community into which Due North supplies housing. 

Alexander Bimman

Alexander Bimman is a veteran development executive. His experience includes not only a variety of multi-residential communities, from student residences to seniors’ residencies, but also, over 35+ years of experience on four continents, millions of square feet of warehouses, factories, offices, hotels, recreation, transportation, and special purpose facilities. Alexander has achieved a number of firsts:

  • A first in Canada telemarketing operation that leased out a major (1.8M sq. ft. ) building in a down market—Scotia Plaza. 
  • Reduced a branch network for a major Canadian bank, completing the disposition of 543 retail branches to retailers of over 700,000 sq. ft. of space.
  • Assembled 840 acres of land from 27 vendors in Niagara for a Canadian NASCAR Racetrack, in addition to securing $27M in financing from the three levels of government for the construction of an overpass for the project.

 

 

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