Recent Experience
Planning, rezonings, subdivisions, infrastructure construction and site sales, from concept to completion, of Marathon Realty's Coal Harbour Project, including all negotiations with City of Vancouver through five major rezonings, joint ventures and co-ownership agreements, governance, corporate re-organizations, and dispositions, generating land sale proceeds from residential, office, hotel, marina and convention centre development sites exceeding $400,000,000, and overall project development values exceeding $4 billion.
Development, leasing, financing, subdivision and sales of Marathon Realty office buildings at Granville Square, Waterfront Centre, Waterfront Hotel, Granville Square II and CP Station including all dealings with B.C. Transit/TransLink on public transit guideways and stations - project values exceeding CDN $800,000,000.
Participation and advice on rezonings, acquisitions, development, leasing and sale of BC Enterprise Corporation land assets (including Songhees Master Project in Victoria).
Completion of complex and prominent rezonings, subdivision and sales of Molson Arbutus Industrial Lands on West Side of Vancouver.
Advising CN Real Estate and Canada Lands Company in connection with various land and building developments and sales, including 401 Burrard Street, Pacific Business Centre, Glenlyon Business Park, Bayside Village (Victoria), CFB Chilliwack, CMHC Lands and Building Portfolio, 900 Howe Street, Garden City Lands Richmond and other projects.
Negotiation of construction, management and financing agreements for P3 Sports Complexes in Lower Mainland municipalities.
Negotiation of construction, management and financing agreements for Freshwater and Wastewater Treatment Facilities on Vancouver Island and elsewhere in British Columbia on behalf of private and public entities.
Advising private and public entities on utilities and telecom rights of way, licenses and Municipal Access Agreements.
Advising private and public entities and Crown corporations on acquisitions of federal and provincial lands within harbours and water courses.
Advising on all real estate and related asset issues in connection with purchase of Douglas Lake Ranch, Canada's largest operating fee simple/leasehold/grazing license cattle ranch.
Participation with Business Council of British Columbia, and Urban Development Institute and other institutions in lobbying and negotiations with governments in connection with amendments to provincial legislation.
Advising on purchase and sale of various Metro Vancouver office towers, hotels, retail complexes, business and industrial parks for Canadian national and overseas investors.
Advising School Boards on assemblies for school projects.
Advising on sale of Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver and World Trade Centre Office Complex and (more recently) advising on purchase and sale of nine other Vancouver area hotels.
Advising Project Management Team on major real property issues relating to Canada Line Rapid Transit P3 Project.
Advising Project Management Team on all real property matters relating to Vancouver Convention Centre West Expansion Project.
Advising Health Care Authorities and Charitable Societies and Foundations on Real Estate issues in connection with Health Care Capital Projects.
Advising Vancouver Community College Project Team on redevelopment projects at King Edward and Downtown Campuses.
Advising B.C. Pavilion Corporation on RFP and Real Estate Development Project on surplus lands adjoining BC Place.
Advising various organizations on First Nations joint ventures and other co-operative commercial projects and enterprises.
Advising Aspac Developments on rezonings and development of River Green Project, Richmond BC and other projects.
Bennett Jones
