Ascent

I needed a company to do the project - both for legal, accounting and business reasons. This was not a completely new endeavour for me - I did few smaller projects, like the Richmond house, mentioned before, Owl's Nest ski and golf chalet at Sun Peaks Resort, and Blair project, which I will be talking later about. But it was a completely bigger scale, the full impact of which I began to realize only later. Sunrise Centre was a good name for the project. The company, which would do it, and hopefully further redevelopment in downtown Merritt, as well as other new projects elsewhere, should have a name which would symbolize that unstoppable movement upwards. After some mental search, the name Ascent was chosen. It came from my previous experience as an aerospace engineer - from the time when I was working on the guidance and navigation system for the ascent trajectory of the Russian space shuttle Buran. It was also a good fit to how we wanted to be viewed .