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Meet Olympia Komianos, Forest Green Park Manager

Everyone who walks into the clubhouse at Austeville’s Forest Green Estates is in for a treat in the form of Park Manager Olympia Komianos. She’s not shy about sharing her infectious energy or warm smile as she greets every resident by name—including the four-legged ones—when they come to pick up their mail.

Olympia and her partner Mike have been overseeing the Langley manufactured home park for three years. Mike is an experienced tradesman who can build or fix just about anything. At the park, he is responsible for maintaining and upgrading the facility’s shared spaces.

Meanwhile, Olympia, who has a keen eye for detail and a healthy appreciation for organization and structure, takes care of leasing and the many behind-the-scenes administrative tasks required to keep the park running smoothly. 

She says Austeville is a great company, and the support and encouragement she receives from Head Office has helped her grow into a role she adores.

A long-time yoga instructor and goldsmith who makes beautiful hand-crafted jewelry when she’s not at the park, Olympia says the nurturing and people skills she honed over years as a yogi, combined with the detail and precision required in her work as an artisan, have prepared her for this latest challenge. “You take everything you’ve learned in life and just apply it to every step forward.”

 

In the 1970s, the Forest Green property was a campground surrounded by woodland and bordered on the southern end by a meandering creek. Today, the community is an unexpected oasis of nature and calm hidden in a semi-industrial neighbourhood. Its 20 quiet acres are home to 145 manufactured homes.

Austeville, a local, family-owned company, purchased the site of the 55+ community in 2015. Since then, Austeville’s been investing in infrastructure improvements to make the park the best it can be for its more than 200 residents.

Those residents own their homes, and in return for a pad rental, Austeville delivers the services of a mini city, including connections to the City of Langley’s water and sewage services. Austeville also provides street cleaning, garbage and snow removal and amenities like walking paths and a serene, naturalized pond.

But, according to Olympia, the park’s energy hub is the clubhouse. Austeville renovated its kitchen in 2022. For a nominal fee, residents can rent the facility for private functions. It’s also where the park’s social committee hosts regular events from bingo, darts and billiards to movie nights, pancake breakfasts and a weekly ukelele jam.

It’s at happenings like these, plus others, including last summer’s Austeville-sponsored food-truck day where 112 plates were served by Shameless Buns, or the organized tour of resident gardens, where Olympia says the park and its residents really shine.

“Mike and I may hold the title of Park Managers but we consider ourselves more like Austeville ambassadors for the Forest Green residents.”

She’s also become very fond of those residents, and a little protective, “This is their home and I want it to be special for all of them.” To that end, she and Mike and the rest of the Austeville team have gone to great lengths to ensure the park is safe and beautiful. Mike recently fixed and levelled the paving-stone entrance to the clubhouse and he’s improved the walking trails with a layer of gravel. Meanwhile, Olympia plants beautiful garden boxes and makes sure to listen to resident needs.

Olympia adds, “the greatest gift I have received at the park is the ability to spend time with good natured folks as they have taught me some of the greatest lessons in life, patience and listening”.