Cherot

Chérot is a masterplanned St. Albert community characterized by its elevated architecture and cohesive design inspired by France. Within Chérot is Chelles Park, home to the Paris Playground, which features a 25’ tall replica Eiffel Tower. 

The walkable community has many opportunities for recreation with a future 25-acre community amenities campus and recreation centre planned, a central school site for a future school, and multiple ponds. Chérot is located close to convenient transportation networks including Ray Gibbon Drive, Giroux Road, and Anthony Henday Drive. 

There is a variety of housing options, including single family front-attached garage homes, zero lot line rear-laned homes, duplex homes, townhomes and multifamily apartments. 

About Chérot

Year Developed: Ongoing; development commenced in 2022

Type of homes: Single Family, Townhouses, Duplexes, Condos, Apartments, 

Parks in the area: Chelles Park with further parks planned.

Schools in the Area

• Planned Central School Site in Chérot
• Elementary: Bertha Kennedy Catholic School, École Father Jan, Joseph M. Demko, Leo Nickerson, Ronald Harvey
• Junior High: École Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d’Youville (French Immersion), Joseph M. Demko, Vincent J. Maloney Catholic Junior High School, William D. Cuts
• High School: École Secondaire St. Albert Catholic High School (English and French Immersion), Paul Kane (for French immersion only), Bellerose Composite High School, St. Albert Public Outreach High School, St. Gabriel Education Centre (Outreach)

Characteristics

• Homes in Chérot have elevated design details, distinctive roof pitches, black exterior doors, windows with black trim, and custom address plaques. 
• The landscape architecture incorporates stone and black steel materials, columnar trees along walking trails. 

History
Chérot is named for Emile and Celestine Cherot. They were married in France in 1909 and came to Canada in 1911. After working their way to St. Albert, they grew market vegetables on 45 acres of land on the green belt between St. Albert and Edmonton. The community name Chérot translates to “Darling” or “High Value.”.

The approved Chérot Area Structure Plan (ASP) identifies the titled area for Chérot East as approximately 100 hectares± and the anticipated developable area is 76.8 hectares.  The residential area is approximately 40 hectares±, which is 52%± of the developable area. In the low density units, of which 961 units are projected, 2.90 persons per household are anticipated.  In the medium density residential 328 units are projects at 2.23 persons per household.  In the high density residential, 308 units are projected and the number of persons per household is 1.76.  The population for Chérot East is estimated at 4,060 residents with a planned density of 40 dwelling units per net residential hectare. 

Developed by Rohit Land Development, starting in 2022.