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BentallGreenOak
BentallGreenOak is a real estate investment firm based in Toronto and New York City. The firm is the real estate investment arm of Sun Life Financial. It is considered one of the largest real estate investment firms in North America. In 2022, the firm was ranked by PERE (under Private Equity International) as the seventh largest Private Equity Real Estate firm based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period. Background BentallGreenOak is the result of a merger between two firms, Bentall Kennedy and GreenOak Real Estate that occurred in 2019. Bentall Kennedy was a Canadian real estate investment firm that was a subsidiary of Sun Life Financial. GreenOak Real Estate was an American private equity real estate firm established in 2010 with its seed capital being provided by the Tetragon Financial Group. In 2019, Sun Life Financial acquired a 56% stake in GreenOak Real Estate by paying $195 million in cash. Then Sun Life merged the two firms to form Bental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Life Financial
Sun Life Financial Inc. is a Canadian financial services company. It is primarily known as a life insurance company. Sun Life has a presence in investment management with over CAD$1.3 trillion in assets under management operating in a number of countries. It has over $125 billion in assets under administration as of 2020. Sun Life ranks number 235 on the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2022. History Pre-World War II Founded in Montreal, Quebec, as The Sun Insurance Company of Montreal in 1865 by Matthew Hamilton Gault (1822–1887), an Irish immigrant who settled in Montreal in 1842. However, operations actually began in 1871. By the end of the 19th century, it had expanded to Central and South America, the United States, the United Kingdom, West Indies, Japan, China, Philippines, India, North Africa and other international markets. During the next five decades, the company grew and prospered, surviving the difficulties of World War I and the large drain on its finances through p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1250 René-Lévesque
1250, boulevard René-Lévesque is a , 47-storey skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates for IBM Canada and Marathon Realty, hence the former name "IBM-Marathon Tower". It is now named for its address at 1250 René Lévesque Boulevard West, in the Ville-Marie borough of Downtown Montreal. It is adjacent to the Bell Centre and Windsor Station to the south, and stands on the site of the former American Presbyterian Church. It is connected to the Bonaventure metro station and the underground city network. 1250 is currently owned and managed by global real estate investor, developer and owner BentallGreenOak. Architecture 1250 René-Lévesque's architecture is based on another skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the 51-story Westend Tower in Frankfurt, Germany. The design is partly dictated by the building's position at the former western edge of the downtown core, with its shape forming a boundary between the commercial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPMG Tower
The KPMG Tower, formerly ''Maison des Coopérants'' or ''Place de la Cathédrale'', is a 34-storey skyscraper in downtown Montreal, Canada, that was completed in 1987. It is at 600 de Maisonneuve Ouest and has an official height of . The building is owned and operated by BentallGreenOak. The KPMG Tower was built on a plot of land owned by the Christ Church Cathedral, which lies directly in front of the building when viewed from Saint Catherine Street. It was designed by WZMH Architects and was styled to relate to the cathedral. The tower incorporates an underground shopping centre, ''Promenades Cathédrale'', as part of the underground city that is connected to the Metro. Overview The building was originally called ''Maison des Coopérants'' for the then-anchor tenant, as can be seen on the inscription in the lobby; however, it was later named ''Place de la Cathédrale''. At the end of 2005 the tower was renamed to its current name for KPMG, the new anchor tenant that occupi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carrafiell
John Carrafiell is a Co-CEO of BentallGreenOak. Education Carrafiell received his B.A. from Yale University in 1987. Career Carrafiell joined Morgan Stanley in 1987 and held various management positions there from 1994 to 2009 including: Head of Acquisitions for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds’ European Investment Program (1994); Head of Morgan Stanley’s European Real Estate Group (1995); Managing Director (1999); Global Co-Head the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Division and member of the Investment Banking Operating Committee(2005); President of the Special Situations Fund III (2006); and Senior Advisor (2009). In 2004, after the Morgan Stanley-led £1.7 billion takeover of Canary Wharf, Carrafiell became a member of the board of Canary Wharf, Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Operating Management Committee. Carrafiell formed Alpha Real Estate Advisors in 2008 which advised Songbird Estates PLC (controlling owner of Canary Wharf) in its £1.03 billion recapita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eglinton Square Shopping Centre
Eglinton Square Shopping Centre is an enclosed shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at Eglinton Avenue, Eglinton Avenue East and Victoria Park Avenue in Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough's Golden Mile, Toronto, Golden Mile neighbourhood. It opened in 1954 as a Strip mall, strip plaza, like most retail space at the time, and was later converted to mall. It was notable for having a parking garage attached to Morgans department store, with a steep winding ramp. Morgan's was bought by the Hudson's Bay Company and eventually became a Hudson's Bay (retailer), Bay. The garage was demolished. The main shopping centre still has two 1960s style ramps that provide two levels of parking on top of the stores. The top most level is the roof of the building and also provides open air parking spaces. It is owned by Kingsett Capital and under the management of Bentall Kennedy (Canada) LP. It has approximately of retail space with over 80 retail outlets. The mall is located on what wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Life Centre
The Sun Life Centre in Toronto, Ontario (also known as 150 King Street West) was built in 1984 to house the Toronto operations of Sun Life Financial, serving as the insurance company's global headquarters until 2017. The Sun Life Financial Tower is known as an architectural symbol of modernism, located in the heart of Toronto's financial district at 150 King Street West. Construction of the stainless steel and glass high-rise structure was completed in 1984 and was originally developed to house the head office of Sun Life 9, now Sun Life Financial. Toronto's Sun Life Centre/150 King W. complex should not be mistaken for the Sun Life Building in Montreal, the original global headquarters before Sun Life moved its HQ from Quebec to Ontario in 1976, after the election of the first PQ government. Sun Life moved its global headquarters from 150 King to the newly named Sun Life Financial Tower at One York in Toronto's South Core district in 2017. Sun Life retains ownership over 150 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pen Centre
The Pen Centre (originally Niagara Peninsula Shopping Centre) is the largest shopping mall in the Niagara Region, located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. History The Pen Centre was built in 1957 as the Niagara Peninsula Centre, a single-level, outside strip mall anchored by Loblaws and 50 retail stores and opened in 1958. In 1966, the evolution of the Pen Centre included the addition of Simpson-Sears and 80 new stores, making the Pen Centre the fourth largest shopping centre in Canada. The mall remained as an open strip, with landscaped walkways in between. By September 1975, the strip mall was enclosed and became a climate-controlled environment at the cost of $2 million. Located next to the Highway 406, it has over one million square feet of floor space and features over 180 stores, a major department store, a supermarket, a ten-screen movieplex, and several large format anchors. Famous Players Famous Players Limited Partnership, DBA Famous Players, is a Canadian-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Hill Centre
North Hill Centre is a shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It opened in 1958, and was Calgary's first shopping mall. The original anchor tenant was Simpsons-Sears (later Sears Canada), but it closed on January 8, 2018. History Opening Stores in the mall began opening in June 1958, and the mall's official grand opening was in October 1958. It was billed as the largest shopping centre in Western Canada, with about 30 stores and services. As described by mall spokeswoman Paula Newhold: "It was revolutionary to have a mall and to have late-night shopping and all of that kind of stuff that is just quite normal for us now. The real experience was that it was all in one place - that was the interesting thing." 1973 expansion North Hill Centre was originally built as a strip mall accompanied by a freestanding Simpson-Sears department store. In 1973 the mall underwent a major renovation, which added 20 more stores and enclosed the shopping area. The design featured a central co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloverdale Mall
Cloverdale Mall is a community shopping centre located in the Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 250 The East Mall northeast of the intersection of Dundas Street West and Highway 427). It opened in 1956 as an open-air shopping plaza on what was part of the Eatonville farm. History In 1956, Cloverdale Mall opened with two major anchors: Dominion and Morgan's. The centre of the plaza was an open-air concrete courtyard. In the 1960s, following the purchase of Morgan's by the Hudson's Bay Company, the Morgan's store was converted into The Bay. In the 1980s, Cloverdale Mall was converted into an enclosed mall and expanded. In 2005, Hudson's Bay Company replaced The Bay department store with their discount store Zellers at the mall's north end. Zellers expanded the lower/main level retail floor space but did not continue using the upper level of the Bay's former space, and it has been closed ever since. Winners and Kitchen Stuff Plus opened where the old Zellers outlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Oaks Mall (London, Ontario)
White Oaks Mall is a shopping centre in London, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the southwest corner of Wellington Road and Bradley Avenue, just north of Highway 401. Location White Oaks is located in South London, adjacent to the arterial street Wellington Road. It is serviced by the following bus routes operated by the London Transit Commission, two terminals at Jalna Boulevard, which provide bus routes 4A, 4B and 93 and 4 terminals at the Wellington Road entrance, which give bus routes 10, 13, 13A, 28, 30, 90 and 95. The mall is expected to be the southern terminus of one way on the planned London Rapid Transit system. History Beginnings The mall's property was originally occupied by a small outdoor plaza, built in 1962 before major development began in the surrounding neighbourhoods. In 1972, the plaza was completely rebuilt to make way for expansion. It became a fully enclosed shopping center in 1973, anchored by Woolco in addition to 150+ stores. Expansions The mall's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetragon Financial Group
Tetragon Financial Group Limited ("TFG") is a closed-ended investment company which is traded on the Euronext exchange in Amsterdam and on the Specialist Fund Segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange. The firm's strategy is to provide stable returns to its investors through a wide range of credit, equity, interest rate and real estate cycles. Tetragon invests in a broad range of assets, including public and private equities and credit (including distressed securities and structured credit), convertible bonds, real estate, venture capital, infrastructure, bank loans and TFG Asset Management, a diversified alternative asset management business. The company's investment manager is Tetragon Financial Management LP ("TFM"). TFG's Polygon business is a member of SBAI (the " Standard Board for Alternative Investments"), and AIMA ("Alternative Investment Management Association"). TFG was founded on June 23, 2005. History Tetragon Financial Group was founded in 2005. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
399 Park Avenue
399 Park Avenue is a 41-story office building that occupies the entire block between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street and 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was the world headquarters of Citigroup from 1961 when it moved from 55 Wall Street until 2015 when the company moved to 388 Greenwich Street. History The building lot was assembled by Vincent Astor who initially planned to build a 46-story Astor Plaza on the site. Astor had problems completing the assembly of the lots of mostly residential buildings as a pharmacy held out. In 1974, the company opened the Citigroup Center annex across Lexington to the east. In 1987, Citigroup sold one third of its interest in the building along with two-thirds of its interest in Citigroup Center to Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company for $670 million. At the time, Citigroup said it was moving many of its offices to One Court Square in Long Island City, Queens. Citigroup moved out of the top two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
