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A&A Records – founded in Toronto at the end of WWII, it was the dominant record chain store in Canada until being superseded by Sam the Record Man in the 1960s; it became defunct in 1993 A&B Sound – home electronics retailer based in Richmond , BC; founded in 1959, it had expanded as far as Winnipeg , Manitoba by 2000, but its subsequent ...
Murray Menkes was born in Toronto on April 21, 1926, to Max and Anne Menkes. His parents were Polish immigrants and came to Canada in the late 1910s. [4] Menkes in his youth started working at his father's fur business until he realized that he can be more successful selling real estate in the 1940s.
Olympia & York (also spelled as Olympia and York, abbreviated as O&Y) was a major international property development firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The firm built major financial office complexes including Canary Wharf in London, the World Financial Center in New York City, and First Canadian Place in Toronto.
Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, commonly referred to as Choice Properties, is a Canadian unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest real estate investment trust in Canada, with an enterprise value of $16 billion. [ 1 ]
The IBI Group was founded in Toronto by nine partners to provide professional planning and design services for urban development and transportation projects.. The firm merged with Robbie/Young + Wright Architects to become Robbie Young + Wright / IBI Group Architects, with noted Toronto architect Rod Robbie as chairman emeritus. [8]
The bulk of the new company's land holdings were purchased from Bayton Holdings Ltd. in 1958 and 1959, at a cost of $1.18 million. Bramalea was first listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in August 1960, and over the next five years, the company bought up properties and property development companies.
In March 2010, Shnaider invested in a property consortium that bought Toronto's King Edward Hotel for $50 million. The asset was purchased in a distressed sale from Lehman Brothers . [ 10 ] Shnaider originally invested alongside three other real estate companies , Skyline International Development Inc., Dundee KE Inc., and Serruya Realty Group Inc.
Minto Communities Canada is a home builder in Ottawa, Toronto, and Calgary. It has built 60,000 homes over its history. It builds both low-rise and high-rise housing, and in recent years has been building more luxury rental projects. [11] In 2015, Minto was the largest home builder in Ottawa, with 913 homes built, and 24 percent of the market. [12]