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Mixed-use multires growing sector for Canada's developers
Guelph class-A industrial logistics facility nears completion
Forager Real Estate Partners, a Toronto-based private equity developer and asset manager, and Mississauga-based Sherway Group, are nearing completion of a 170,000-sq.-ft. facility which will add class-A logistics space to the area.
Initial Calgary office conversion projects still underway
As Calgary restarts its office conversion program, the projects it previously committed to funding are still underway. Only one project — the Cornerstone, a 112-suite building on 5th Avenue S.W. — has reached the finish line, with 10 in progress.
Apartments snapped up in former Kitchener office building
The $12-million conversion of the 10-floor office building at 30 Duke St. W. into apartments should be finished by year’s end, adding 128 one-bedroom units to the city core.
Highrises proposed at edge of Kitchener near 401
LJM Developments has submitted a proposal for a mixed-use complex with 726 residential units in the southeastern corner of Kitchener. The site is located just north of Highway 401, offering drivers access to Cambridge and the Greater Toronto Area.
Higher development charges coming to Port Colborne, Ont.
The amount the municipality will charge developers to help it reclaim the cost of infrastructure is set to double, and then some, as rates are set for the next decade.
Kingston's first geo-exchange rental building opens
Podium Developments, in partnership with Secure Capital Partners, Blue Vista Capital Management LLC, Vestcor, and OPTrust, has announced announce the grand opening of its newest rental building, GEOcentral, offering 344 residential units and 10,500 square feet of commercial area.
Townhouses proposed for Oakville's Lakeshore Rd. W.
Garden Residences Corp. has submitted an application for a mixed-use townhouse community in Oakville. The development comprises 48 units — each with its own parking space — and over 2,000 sq. ft. of ground-floor commercial space.
Developers win appeal to build stacked towns in Cambridge
The developers behind a plan to tear down a fourplex and single-family home on Blair Road to make way for 32 stacked townhouse units have been given the go-ahead by the Ontario Land Tribunal.
Former downtown London, Ont. storefront gets new life
A new bargain shopping business is coming to downtown London as a Toronto-area entrepreneur converts the former Metropolitan department store along Dundas Place into a 20,000 -sq.-ft. liquidation shop.
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Ontario Teachers, Hines buy Australian rental projects for $327M
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan board and investment manager Hines have extended their exposure to Australia’s growing build-to-rent sector with the acquisition of two Brisbane assets in a deal worth C$327 million.
3 reasons to consider REITs as markets eye refinancing boom
After long years of underperformance, REITs may be back in vogue. The sector has shown strong momentum since mid-year, coinciding with the market adjusting of its mid-term interest rate expectations.
RFR's Chrysler Building lease terminated, landlord says
A partnership led by RFR Holding has held the ground lease to the iconic Chrysler Building for the past five years, but it stopped making rent payments after May, according to Cooper Union, the private college that owns the land.
Sterling Organization buys 1M-sq.-ft. retail portfolio for $180.5M
Sterling Organization has closed on the US$180.5 million purchase of a 994,000-square-foot portfolio of open-air shopping centres, the company announced. SITE Centers sold the three properties located in the Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and San Antonio metropolitan areas.
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