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,…

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg-based Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (formerly known as Westfield) has closed $193.7 million of previously announced acquisition plans. Focusing exclusively on commercial properties located in primary and growing…

TORONTO - Primaris Retail REIT of Toronto has acquired Place d'Orleans, a 733,000-sq.-ft., two-level shopping centre in Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, for $186 million. Built in 1979 and expanded in 1999, the mall covers 43 acres and includes…

OTTAWA - Canada Post has released four stamps commemorating the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's (RAIC) centennial anniversary. The 52-cent stamps depict four signature pieces by architects who have received the RAIC gold medal as…

TORONTO - A team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) of New York won Waterfront Toronto's (formerly the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation) Lower Don Lands Design Competition."The winning MVVA design represents a…

A recent Ontario court case is raising quite a few eyebrows amongst the ranks of Ontario real estate lawyers, and it is a case that could have repercussions for builders and developers across Canada.In Ridgely v. Nielson, a prospective…

Architectural history, until the last century, is dominated by how humans have made manifest their theology through the built expression of sacred places. If the central position held by Egyptian and Greek temples gave way in Rome to a…

There is probably no city in North America more deserving of the moniker "city of steeples" than Montreal. Between the conquest of 1759 and the crystallization of the so-called "quiet revolution" in 1960 with the election of Jean Lesage's…

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…

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…