Roughly two years after shovels broke ground at the former CFB Pleasantville, development of the residential neighbourhood is continuing in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
CLC is pleased to announce that a new round of parcels have now gone on sale at the site, with CLC currently accepting proposals for Block 6 a 2.3 acre block of land (zoned apartment medium density) and 17 single family lots. To see a map of these parcels, view the marketing material here.
Congratulations to Mark Laroche, who has just been reappointed as President and CEO of Canada Lands Company. Mark led us through an incredibly busy year in 2011 and it’s exciting that he’ll be at the helm of CLC for at least another five years. Learn more about Mark’s reappointment in CLC’s official release.
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Félicitations à Mark Laroche, dont le mandat de président-directeur général de la Société immobilière du Canada a été renouvelé. Mark nous a guidés durant une année exceptionnelle en 2011 et nous sommes heureux de savoir qu’il continuera de diriger la SIC pendant les cinq prochaines années. Pour en savoir davantage sur le renouvellement du mandat de Mark, consultez le communiqué officiel de la SIC.
The CN Tower celebrated its 35th anniversary this year and remains as relevant and iconic as the day it was completed. As stewards of this Canadian landmark, we at Canada Lands Company are exceptionally proud of this accomplishment.
An overarching respect for what the Tower represents to all Canadians is an integral part of how we manage it. That sense of the bigger picture was recognized recently when The CN Tower was awarded the Air Canada “Business of the Year” Award during the 2011 Tourism Industry Association of Canada’s (TIAC) annual Tourism Summit.
A recent article in the real estate publication Property Biz Canada touched on CLC’s track record of turning excess federal land into profitable real estate developments. As cited in that story, since CLC’s creation in 1995 the company has returned $392.8 million in cumulative distributions to the federal government in the form of dividends, upfront payments and note repayments for properties.
With belts tightening in both the private and public sector, Canada Lands Company is closing out one of its best years ever despite a sometimes tumultuous real estate market.
(via campbellriver.ca)
Congratulations are in order to the city of Campbell River, British Columbia for being awarded the Canada Lands Company Sustainable Development Award at the 2011 Communities in Bloom National Ceremonies.
The award from CLC recognizes a community whose work as part of the Communities in Bloom program most effectively promotes sustainable development. One of the award’s objectives is to honour cooperative partnerships between local government, industry and citizens.
Doug Cassidy & Ashley Roberts (Dean Bicknell, Calgary Herald)
It was big news for Canada Lands Company when we recently acquired the Sam Livingston building, just on the edge of downtown Calgary. Canada Lands is currently working to lease the 45,000 square feet of office space while simultaneously planning the site’s future redevelopment.
Although the property is vacant right now, we see a great opportunity in this location for Calgary and its booming business community. Redevelopment planning is still in its nascent stages, but with all the pieces in place and the great neighbourhood the site is located in, it’s not too early to get excited about this project’s potential.
Le Silo No 5 présente une silhouette imposante dans le port de Montréal. Au cours des derniers mois, nous avons organisé des visites guidées de cette grande structure. Ces visites sont le résultat d’une collaboration entre la Société immobilière du Canada, Parcs Canada et Héritage Montréal.
La réaction a été fantastique. Presque toutes les visites ont affiché complet, et les visiteurs ont été fascinés par l’intérieur et le fonctionnement du Silo No 5, par l’histoire du secteur industriel et son rôle dans le patrimoine urbain de Montréal. Pendant quelques jours, nous avons même pu guider des visiteurs jusqu’au toit du Silo – une occasion exceptionnelle de découvrir un des panoramas les moins connus et les plus extraordinaires sur Montréal.
Canada’s housing market will sustain its positive levels of starts and resale prices into the new year, according to a recent report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
Singling out Atlantic Canada, Quebec and British Columbia as particularly strong regions of late, the CMHC also recently noted that the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 205,900 units in September, up from 191,900 units in August 2011.
This is encouraging news for Canadians and we at Canada Lands Company have been doing our part, contributing to all of these regions of growth:
Jack Robinson, Gordon McIvor, Carey Low
Guinness World Records officials were at the CN Tower today to bestow its EdgeWalk attraction with the official record for “Highest External Walk On A Building”. Canada Lands Company officials were on hand to watch Carey Low, of Guinness World Records, present the certificate to CN Tower COO Jack Robinson aloft EdgeWalk’s 1,168ft high signature metal walkway.
The CN Tower is no stranger to world records. In light of this most recent Guinness pronouncement, here is a quick history of the iconic structure’s record setting achievements:
Canada Lands Company has a close relationship with Canada’s Armed Forces, often working closely with it to redevelop decommissioned military bases. In all of these redevelopments, it is a priority of CLC to honour the military legacy of each base, and the personnel who lived and worked there.
It is a pillar of our corporate philosophy to “always remember”, so this Remembrance Day season, CLC wants to keep encouraging people to “Wear A Poppy”. We are doing our little part to personally help the poppy campaign at the Village at Griesbach.
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