Canada

A newly opened No Frills grocery store has become the anchor tenant at the Moore Centre in northwest Winnipeg. The new store is located at 1375 McPhillips Street., strengthening the retail development’s role as a neighbourhood shopping destination in the area. Operated by local associate-owner Adelina, the store will provide residents in the Garden City …

Indigenous Gaming Partners and Pure Casino Entertainment have closed on their purchase of Gamehost. The completion marks a rare instance of a First Nations-led group taking a publicly traded company private in Canada. The deal closed under a definitive arrangement agreement announced March 30, under which a subsidiary of Pure acquired all outstanding Gamehost shares for …

A published report says Onni Group purchased the former Hudson’s Bay Company store in downtown Vancouver for $112.5 million. The publication said it obtained a land-transfer document dated June 24 that revealed the purchase price. Meanwhile, Primaris REIT said Monday in an activity update that it purchased the former Bay store site at Devonshire Mall …

Grosvenor is seeking to upscale its previously approved bus depot redevelopment project in Vancouver’s Oakridge district with the installation of hundreds of new apartment units. The United Kingdom-based developer has submitted a revised rezoning application for its 14-acre Mayfair West project on the former Oakridge Transit Centre site, nearly doubling the planned residential density from …

Primaris REIT says it has leased or is in advanced negotiations for 84% of the former Hudson’s Bay Company store space in its shopping-centre portfolio, with the redeveloped locations expected to generate nearly four times the annual rent previously paid by HBC. The REIT reported the leasing success in a broader activity update. Primaris said …

Some federal departments will miss the government’s July 6 deadline requiring most public servants to work in the office at least four days a week because of ongoing office space shortages, The Globe and Mail reported. The federal government confirmed to the Globe that Ottawa is maintaining the July 6 return-to-office deadline for non-executive employees, …

GO Residential REIT has completed its acquisitions of two apartment towers in New York City. The completions of the two previously announced purchase agreements expand Toronto-based GO’s portfolio by 26% to 2,545 residential suites, the REIT said. GO closed the indirect acquisitions of the 209-suite 7 Dey Street tower in Tribeca on May 28 and …

Indigenous Gaming Partners and Pure Casino Entertainment have closed on their purchase of Gamehost. The completion marks a rare instance of a First Nations-led group taking a publicly traded company private in Canada. The deal closed under a definitive arrangement agreement announced March 30, under which a subsidiary of Pure acquired all outstanding Gamehost shares for …

CGC’s new $210-million Wallboard plant near Calgary will eliminate tariffs and set the stage for the company’s future long-term growth. The recently opened facility will also greatly reduce emissions, said Steve Youngblut, CGC’s president and CEO, in an interview with Connect. “That plant was built really for us to control our own destiny in Western …

Saltire Capital has acquired Tool Shed construction equipment rental and sales retailer for $2.8 million in cash and stock. The deal was previously announced but amended prior to closing with Saltire purchasing 100% of the company, which operates one location in Dartmouth, N.S. Previously, the proposed agreement called for the vendors to retain an ownership …

A published report says Onni Group purchased the former Hudson’s Bay Company store in downtown Vancouver for $112.5 million. The publication said it obtained a land-transfer document dated June 24 that revealed the purchase price. Meanwhile, Primaris REIT said Monday in an activity update that it purchased the former Bay store site at Devonshire Mall …

The Williams Treaties First Nations have agreed to invest $700 million in the proposed Darlington New Nuclear project in Clarington, Ont. The group says marking what they describe as the largest collective First Nations investment in nuclear-power generation in Canada The investment will support the development of Canada’s first grid-scale small modular reactor (SMR), which …

Sid Lee Architecture, Rosefellow and the Tsatas Group plan to develop office space in Montreal to woo the new NATO Defense, Security and Resilience Bank to the city. The Canadian Press reported that the three firms have proposed dedicating several floors of a planned downtown tower to help Montreal winning the competition to the multinational …

A group headed by Immo Alliances has acquired a Montreal 25-building apartment portfolio, says a published report. The portfolio in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood spans 25 buildings containing 248 units, along with two redevelopment sites folloing a fire at 2012-2022 Westmore Avenue, according to the report, which states that the group bought the properties from family-owned …

Wesbild has halted a planned six-tower, 2,000-unit multi-residential development in Port Coquitlama, B.C. The master-planned project, known as PoCoPlace, was slated for the corner of Lougheed Highway and Westwood Street and would have included significant retail space and amenities. Phase 1 had been slated to include a 37-storey rental tower and a 35-storey condominium tower, …