Project Experience

Urban Development
Squamish Oceanfront – District of Squamish, BC

Coriolis has been retained by the District of Squamish to help develop business terms for the sale and development of a large oceanfront parcel of land near downtown.

Lease Negotiation

Coriolis helped a large manufacturing business to negotiate the terms of a new long term lease for industrial space.

Fairwinds Community Plan
Vancouver Island, BC

Fairwinds is a comprehensively planned residential and resort community north of Nanaimo BC. We assisted Fairwinds in negotiating the content of the Nanaimo Regional District’s Growth Management Strategy and Official Community Plan, to ensure that the project’s development yield and ability to respond to market conditions were not compromised by new policies.

WestGate Development Site
Prince George, BC

We assisted the owner of a major commercial and residential development site during the City’s update of its Official Community Plan. Our Client was well along the rezoning process under existing OCP policies when the City decided to revisit some of its commercial development policies. We helped the owner provide input to the new Plan.

Land Lease and Development Agreement for Vancouver School Board
Vancouver, BC

For a city block in central Vancouver, we negotiated a long term land lease and development agreement whereby a developer obtained a 99 year lease for a mixed residential and commercial project in exchange for providing an office building for the School Board’s administrative centre.

Land Lease for Seniors Housing Project
West Vancouver, BC

We negotiated the business terms for a long term land lease of a municipally-owned site for the development of a seniors housing project.

Redevelopment Agreement
West Vancouver, BC

We negotiated the terms of a complex real estate development agreement between land owners collaborating in the assembly and redevelopment of a high density mixed use project.

Versatile Pacific Shipyards Development Conceptual Plan
North Vancouver, BC

For the land owner, the City of North Vancouver and the Vancouver Port Corporation, we completed a comprehensive redevelopment plan for a 12 acre waterfront site that was the former Versatile Pacific Shipyard in North Vancouver. The plan will lead to the redevelopment of the site with over 1.1 million sqft. of residential, commercial, hotel, and community space as well as public space, heritage preservation, and waterfront access. Our work included community and land use planning, facilitating public information meetings, meeting with City Council and Staff, providing input to the conceptual plan for the site, and identifying market opportunities. The detailed design was completed by Hotson Bakker Architects (now Dialog). After completion of this stage of the project, Coriolis was retained to manage the process of securing an Official Community Plan amendment and rezoning.

Recreational and Cultural Complex Master Plan
North Vancouver, BC

Coriolis was retained by the City of North Vancouver to develop a long range master plan for the Harry Jerome recreational and cultural complex. Coriolis headed a team that included Hotson Bakker Architects (now Dialog) and Cornerstone Architects.

Westbrook LRT Station
Calgary, AB

We provided strategic real estate inputs to the creation of a concept plan for a 15 acre site at a new LRT station, including advice on land use, density, road layout, phasing, and parcel sizes.