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TORONTO - Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec, headquartered in Quebec City, and its partners Westmont Hospitality Group and InnVest REIT, both of Mississauga, Ontario, have acquired Legacy Hotels REIT of Toronto, operator of 25 luxury and…

TORONTO - Ryerson University and the Karachi (Pakistan) office of ARCOP Associate Architects of Montreal have partnered in the Home In Muzaffarabad project, a joint effort that will see 28 homes built for rural families who were rendered…

TORONTO - Toronto-based Concord Adex is developing a 42-acre condominium community in Toronto's North York borough. The $2-billion project, named Concord Park Place, will create over 4 million square feet of living space in multiple low-…

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - Toronto-based Diamond + Schmitt Architects have won a competition to design an academic building for Drexel University's West Philadelphia campus. The US$49-million facility will provide 32 research laboratories…

Many of us know that the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will host the world's best athletes in some of the most breathtaking areas of British Columbia. But did you know that, along with the three pillars of Sport, Culture, and…

OTTAWA -The Ontario Liberal government is set to target the underground construction economy by locating unregistered homebuilders through a new joint initiative between the Ministry of Labour (MOL) and Toronto's Tarion Warranty…

EDMONTON - Montreal-based Ivanhoe Cambridge has begun a $108-million expansion and redevelopment of the Southgate Centre shopping mall in Edmonton. The project will add significant retail space to Southgate, most of which will be located in…

When an estimated 2,800 international athletes and officials descend on Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, they will be housed in a brand new residential community built on the last remaining large tract of…

This is a concept so obvious it is often left out of the discussion. And that can be a problem. In our enthusiasm to laud the newest architectural designs and construction methodology those who create buildings (and those who follow their…

INNISFAIL, AB - New York-based Riverstone Holdings, the Carlyle Group of Washington DC, and Florida-based Dominion Energy Services are building a refinery in Innisfail, Alberta, that will annually produce 1.12 billion litres of ethanol,…