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Built Green Canada awards third community certification with Canmore’s Spring Creek

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:10:45 +0000

CANMORE, ALTA. — The Spring Creek community in Canmore, Alta. has earned Phase 2 BUILT GREEN® Community certification at the Platinum level. This is building upon its 2022 Phase 1 certification, which was also the first certification to come out of Built Green Canada’s Community pilot program, explains a release. The program targets performance on a […]

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Phase one of Marine Landing development complete

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:00:38 +0000

VANCOUVER — Developers Wesbild and KingSett Capital have announced the completion of phase one of Marine Landing, which is being coined as Canada’s largest twin stacked industrial strata at Marine Drive and Manitoba in South Vancouver. The first of two, six-storey buildings is now complete, and 102 businesses will be taking possession starting this month, […]

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Frankfort Family Reena Residence on receiving end of provincial funds

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:15:17 +0000

TORONTO — The Ontario government is providing $7.7 million to support the Frankfort Family Reena Residence, which will provide a home to 168 vulnerable individuals, including people with developmental disabilities, adults with physical disabilities and seniors. The 20-storey residence will have 111 units and will have services such as employment services, sports programs, meeting rooms […]

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World Exchange Plaza gets a facelift

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:10:04 +0000

OTTAWA — The World Exchange Plaza (WEP), located in downtown Ottawa just steps from Parliament Hill, has been transformed. Design and engineering firm Arcadis undertook the project, which is inspired by Canada’s landscapes and the ethos of the Group of Seven painters. A key feature of the plaza is its mass-timber architecture, made from sustainably sourced Douglas […]

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Nerva’s 85-building project a smart building template in energy conservation

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:00:13 +0000

Billed as the largest smart building conversion to advance energy conservation and sustainability in North America, a project by a Hamilton, Ont.-based energy conservation company transformed 13.3 million square feet in 85 multi-residential buildings in southwestern Ontario. The 10,000-suite project is on track to achieving a 16 per cent investment return primarily through utility bill […]

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One last chance: Calgarians can retrieve inscribed Olympic Plaza bricks before demo starts

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:10:50 +0000

CALGARY – The City of Calgary, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and Arts Commons are offering a final opportunity to commemorate the bricks in Olympic Plaza prior to construction and demolition starting in January 2025. Calgarians can register their interest in retrieving their brick at Calgary.ca/OlympicPlaza. It should be noted, this opportunity is only for original […]

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Yonge City Square: First development in Hoggs Hollow in 20 years underway

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:10:22 +0000

TORONTO — Construction has now started on Yonge City Square, the largest new residential project to begin construction in 2024 in the greater Toronto area and the first new development in the Hoggs Hollow neighbourhood in over 20 years, states developer The Gupta Group. A recent groundbreaking event, held at the project’s site of 4050 […]

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Milton latest long-term care home project to break ground

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:05:25 +0000

MILTON, ONT. — Construction is officially underway on a new 192-bed long-term care home in Milton that will be operated by Excelligent Care. The project was a recipient of the Construction Funding Subsidy top-up, part of the Ontario government’s commitment to build 58,000 new and upgraded long-term care beds across the province, states a release. […]

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Habitat Waterloo proposes attainable ownership housing project

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:00:56 +0000

WATERLOO, ONT. — Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region, acting as leader of the BUILD NOW: Waterloo Region initiative, is negotiating with the City of Waterloo on an affordable and attainable ownership housing project. The proposal aims to address the need for affordable housing in the region by providing over 1,000 homes. In 2023, the BUILD […]

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Time to tune in: Radio Arts building reaches construction milestone

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:10:49 +0000

HAMILTON, ONT. — A historic moment for a historic building transformation. Two years after starting construction, Canlight Group recently celebrated the topping off of its 14-storey Radio Arts project in Hamilton, Ont. by laying the highest beam. Located at 206 King St. W. at the corner of Caroline Street, the project “honours the cultural footprint […]

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Bela Square community celebrates topping off of 35-storey tower

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:05:13 +0000

TORONTO — Bela Square, a multi-tower purpose-built rental project developed by DBS Developments, recently celebrated the topping off of its 35-storey 100 Eastdale Avenue highrise in Toronto. Located near Main and Danforth, the community has a seven-storey mid-rise building known as 94 Eastdale, which features a mix of townhomes and one to three-bedroom apartments, and the […]

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Montreal blacksmith says he has a ‘place in paradise’ as Notre-Dame reopens its doors

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:10:45 +0000

MONTREAL — Five years ago, Notre-Dame Cathedral erupted in flames. A column of smoke rose above the Paris skyline as the historic cathedral, which took 182 years to build between the 12th and 14th centuries, was reduced to a smouldering shell. Yet against all odds, the Gothic masterpiece reopened its doors on Dec. 7 — […]

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