development . oxford properties type private industry real estate founded 1960 ; 56 years ago 1960 headquarters royal bank plaza 1 toronto canada area served canada united states united kingdom key people blake hutcheson ceo products office industrial retail residential hotel services land development property management asset management investment owner omers number of employees 2 000 website www.oxfordproperties.com oxford properties established in 1960 is a global real estate owner investor developer and property manager with a portfolio of office retail industrial multi residential and hotel assets . wholly owned by the ontario municipal employees retirement system the company has offices across canada new york and london uk . the organization has 2 000 employees and over 40 billion of real assets that it manages for itself and on behalf of its co owners and investment partners . oxford s portfolio of properties represents more than 50 million square feet of office retail hotel industrial land and multi residential assets in key markets across canada . some of its most recognized assets include royal bank plaza the fairmont banff springs hotel the metro toronto convention centre centennial place and yorkdale shopping centre . omers acquired oxford properties for can 1.5 billion in january 2003 . 2 at that time oxford stopped offering its securities to the public 3 and surrendered its letters on the tsx oxg.db . oxford properties is currently co developing london s the leadenhall building with british land new york s hudson yards redevelopment project with related companies vancouver s mnp tower and toronto s rbc waterpark place both with cpp investment board . oxford also owns seven canadian fairmont luxury hotels which were acquired in 2006 as well as 7 152 residential units spanning over 13 properties across canada . contents 1 corporate history 2 oxford s early years 3 environmental and social responsibility 4 property gallery 5 see also 6 references 7 external links corporate history edit oxford leaseholds was established in 1960 in edmonton by don love and john and george poole founders of pcl construction . in the early days of the company s formation the partners decided there was a need for a medical clinic and vowed to make it happen . seven years and a few buildings later great west life confederation life insurance co. and canada trust co. became equity partners . to reflect its growing desire to develop towers as well as operate them the company changed its name to oxford development group . the firm entered the 1970s as a publicly traded company with an offering on the toronto stock exchange with its assets surpassing 1 billion . at the time large acquisitions included y & r properties portfolio and 25 shopping centres from cambridge leaseholds . a decade later a new ownership structure was introduced as oxford went private in 1980 in a management led leveraged buyout . to pay for the deal it sold its shopping centres . the decade didn t pass quietly however with assets rising above 3 billion . oxford properties set up its headquarters in toronto s richmond adelaide centre and sold its u.s. business to bce development corp. next came a division of companies the organization split in two oxford properties canada ltd. put the company s real estate back in public hands and oxford development group stayed private and managed all of the company s real estate . eight years later the two companies merged and once again went public with help from a 60 million investment from a hong kong investor . the company made significant real estate investments buying entire portfolios from marathon greiner pacaud hammerson canada royal bank and the canderel group . omers took oxford private in 2001 . now with 16 billion in assets the company is looking to further expand into the northeastern united states and london . 4 oxford s early years edit don love had arrived in edmonton in 1955 as an enterprising young stockbroker working for a national securities firm . a physician client approached him about building a medical clinic in edmonton asking if he knew of any potential investors . he knew e.e. poole another one of his clients and when don made the proposal ernest poole declined but suggested that his sons john and george might have some interest . the three young men started a new company called polo po for poole and lo for love . don provided the imagination while john and george provided the capital . the trio secured a mortgage and built the baker clinic which they then sold back to the doctors of the practice . they were officially in the development business . 5 environmental and social responsibility edit oxford properties ranked first in sustainability in north america in the diversified retail office category by the global real estate sustainability benchmark gresb survey for the fourth year in a row in 2016 . 6 gresb is an industry driven organization committed to assessing the esg performance of real assets globally including real estate portfolios and infrastructure assets . 7 oxford properties has measured a 26 per cent improvement in the energy efficiency of their managed portfolio on a per square foot basis since 2010 . 8 rbc waterpark place was the first leed core and shell platinum office tower in toronto . 9 property gallery edit watermark place london uk centennial place calgary yorkdale shopping centre toronto constitution square ottawa rbc waterpark place toronto see also edit competitors brookfield office properties cadillac fairview dundee reit ivanhoe cambridge references edit contact . oxford properties . retrieved 2013 01 08 . omers to acquire oxford properties group for 1.5 b . lexpert.ca . lexpert . retrieved 2008 01 05 . mrrs decision document . manitoba securities commission . 21 january 2003 . retrieved 2013 01 07 . canada 2010 09 16 . fund alerts and market update alerts . secure.globeadvisor.com . retrieved 2013 03 25 . source pcl construction leaders the pcl story our first 100 years . https gresb public.s3.amazonaws.com 2016 content 2016 northamerica snapshot.pdf https gresb.com about http www.oxfordproperties.com corp web sustainability.aspx http rbcwaterparkplace.com external links edit official website portfolio overview oxford malls oxford leasing oxford residential omers google finance profile retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title oxford properties & oldid 743042692 categories oxford propertiesreal estate companies of canadacompanies based in torontoshopping property management firmsomers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent 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