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People & Companies News for Week Ending July 26, 2024
- Toronto-based Peerage Realty Partners has appointed Tara Brown as president of Peerage Group Sotheby’s International Realty. The group is a new operating division composed of Peerage Realty Partners’ seven Sotheby’s International Realty partner firms. Brown will be based in the U.S. She will be based in the United States. She will also serve as Peerage Realty Partners’ chief growth officer and sit on the firm’s board. Brown brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across diverse consumer businesses and brands. She has a proven record of accelerating growth and creating value in Fortune 500 and private equity companies, including Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Keurig Dr Pepper, and most recently, Maesa, a Bain Capital portfolio beauty company, where she served as the group global chief marketing officer. Peerage Realty Partners is a leading residential real estate services firm, serving luxury markets across North America. The company partners with Sotheby’s International Realty franchisees independent firms in both resale residential real estate brokerage, and new construction marketing.
- QuadReal and Westbank will host the last two movie nights at their massive Oakridge Park mixed-use project site on Vancouver’s west side on July 26 and August 2. My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Crazy Stupid Love will be shown on those two dates, respectively. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the movies begin at 8:30 p.m. The ticket price includes popcorn, a beverage, classic movie candy and bean bag seating. All proceeds go the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. Oakridge Park is the massive redevelopment of the Oakridge shopping centre, which will include a revamped retail centre and a number of multi-residential buildings. The five-year project is slated to be complete in 2025. The movie nights and other summer events offer a glimpse of what’s to come at the site.
- Warrior Plumbing, an award-winning Indigenous plumbing and gas fitting company, is recruiting additional talent, particularly members of Indigenous groups. Based in North Vancouver, B.C., Warrior has doubled revenue and expanded its team to 30 people in the past two years, the company said. The company’s current projects include residential developments such as: Seymour Village, a Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Aquilini project in North Vancouver; Kwasen Village, a new residential community in Burnaby led by the Musqueam Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and Aquilini Developments; and the TWN Health Homes Initiative for housing renovations at the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Warrior also provides plumbing and gas-fitting services to homeowners in the
Greater Vancouver Area. People who are interested in working for Warrior can contact the company at www.warriorplumbing.ca.
- Altus Group named Dan Hurley to the newly created role of chief revenue officer. He will spearhead the Toronto-based market intelligence company’s global revenue generation, overseeing global sales and marketing. He brings more than two decades of experience in scaling companies and executing successful go-to-market strategies. He spent 13 years with SAP, most recently as regional vice-president of sales. His experience also includes working in senior roses for the company now known as Hightower, and Anaplan.
- Skyline Group of Companies in partnership with Kindle Communities, Guelph Community Health Centre and Stonehenge Therapeutic Community have opened a new 32-unit permanent supportive housing project in Guelph, Ont. The project partners, government and community members celebrated the opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by government officials, community members and other guests. Guelph-based Skyline donated the land for the project and provided ongoing expertise and other resources to help ensure its completion. Located at 10 Shelldale Crescent., the building provides around-the-clock access to staff member support and other services that meet residents’ needs. It will be managed by Kindle Communities with support from the Guelph Community Health Centre and Stonehenge Therapeutic Community. The new building is one of three projects within the local Home for Good campaign, launched in spring 2022 by the Guelph-Wellington Poverty Elimination Task Force, Guelph Community Foundation, and United Way Guelph-Wellington-Dufferin.
- Vancouver-based Nicola Wealth Real Estate has expanded its investments team through four new hires: Michael Schulhof, Cameron Lyman, Ethan Scott and Ryan Rizzo. All of the newcomers are in the early stages of their commercial real estate careers. Schulhof has interned with PH&N Institutional and QuadReal; in addition, he operated his own property maintenance firm. Lyman has begun his first full-time role in the industry. He interned with Nicola and Colliers. Scott, who has been appointed as a senior analyst, previously served in the same role with Altus Group in Vancouver and worked as a summer intern for Hamilton Partners in Illinois. Rizzo previously held senior analyst positions with JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, and Hungerford Properties.
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