AFTER more than a year of planning and seven months on the job, the Mirage Country Club is almost complete.

Six local businesses have bandied together to complete the $3.5 million dollar landscaping project for Sheraton owners, Full Share Group, which has seen every garden bed excavated, rebuilding of the drainage and irrigation of the entire drainage system, replanting of every garden and the relaying of every lawn.

The project - completed by Papillion Landscapes, Groundsmen, Hatfield Electrical, RAM Metalworks, Homescape Tile Sales & Installation and Raw and More - only used local sub contractors and materials and has proved a wonderful asset to the community.

Papillion Landscapes Owner and Director, Pete Murphy, said it was a credit to everyone involved to get the project completed on time.

“Everyone has had to pull their own weight to get it done,” Murphy said.

“No one had the resources or capabilities to do it by themselves so it has all worked out really well.

“We first starting putting plans together for it over a year ago, so to have it finished and looking so great is a credit to all who’ve made it happen. Full Share Group have been a pleasure to work with as well, all their project managers have been fantastic.”

The finishing touches are now being put on the country club, which will be fully completed in the coming weeks. Project foreman Jai Parkes said the job had been an overwhelming success and saved special praise for Murphy and Nick James, also from Papillion.

“It has been a complete rebuild and in excess of $3.5 million has been spent on the landscaping,” Parkes said.

“So it has been a big seven month project with a lot of pressure and deadlines to meet, and we’ve been able to meet every one which is a real credit to all the local contractors.

“It shows that you don’t have to go looking down south to get projects of this size and quality completed.”