The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited, branded as Cadillac Fairview, is a Canadian company that invests in, owns, and manages commercial real estate, mainly in Canada and the United States. As of March 2017, the company had 73 properties, encompassing 50 million square feet, worth over $40 billion.About us cadillacfairview.com As of September 2017, Cadillac Fairview's portfolio consisted of 60% Canadian retail (mainly major shopping centres) and 26% Canadian office buildings. Cadillac Fairview is wholly owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
History The name "Cadillac Fairview" came into existence in 1974 as a result of the merger between Cadillac Development Corporation Ltd and Fairview Corporation. Cadillac Development Corporation was founded by partners Ephraim Diamond (d. 2008), Joseph Berman (1922–2003), and Jack Kamin in Toronto in 1953 as a developer of high-rise apartment buildings. Fairview Corporation was established in 1958 as the real estate division of Cemp Investments, the holding company of the Bronfman family. Before merging, Cadillac and Fairview had already had strong ties since 1968. Bronfman-held Cemp Investments sold Cadillac Fairview in 1986.
The company was purchased by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in March 2000. In 2006, it expanded its operations to Brazil by buying 46 percent of Multiplan Emprendimentos Imobiliarios SA, a Brazilian shopping centre manager worth more than $1 billion. In 2012, Cadillac Fairview bought out the leases of Sears Canada in five stores for $400 million, including the lease of the flagship Sears at Toronto Eaton Centre. Many of the former Sears locations, including the one at Eaton Centre, became Nordstrom. In 2014, it purchased the Toronto flagship store of Hudson's Bay Company for $650 million.
On September 21, 2015, Cadillac Fairview rebranded its shopping centre properties, adding the prefix "CF" in front of each shopping centre name and phasing out individual mall logos in favour of a standardized logo format and image campaign. In January 2017, Cadillac Fairview sold a 50% interest in its Vancouver portfolio to the Ontario Pension Board and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal involved 4 million square feet of leasable space in the Pacific Centre and 12 office properties. In September 2017, it announced that it would become a national partner to the Canadian Olympic Committee.
In December 2022, Cadillac Fairview purchased a 25% shareholding in Stanhope plc.Cadillac Fairview buys 25% stake in Stanhope Stanhope plc 13 December 2022
Privacy issues In July 2018, Cadillac Fairview disclosed that it had been employing facial recognition technology via embedded cameras on their mall directory kiosks, which collected anonymized information of the estimated age and gender of customers. The company stated that this information was being used to analyze mall traffic. Following an investigation by CBC News and the announcement of a government probe, Cadillac Fairview suspended the program.
On October 29, 2020, the federal privacy commissioner and his counterparts in Alberta and B.C. released a report detailing Cadillac Fairview's use of anonymous video analytics (AVA) to collect personally-identifiable information from mall visitors without meaningful consent. It found that at 12 properties, the company had used 5 million images from such kiosks to generate biometric representations of visitors' faces. It was also found that the biometric data had unknowingly been compiled into a database by a third-party technology provider "for no apparent purpose and with no justification", which "compounded the risk of potential use by unauthorized parties or, in the case of a data breach, by malicious actors". The report concluded that Cadillac Fairview had complied with their recommendations, with the exception of those "that speculate about hypothetical future uses of similar technology".
Cadillac Fairview defended the program, arguing that the cameras' use were covered by a general privacy notice located on entrance signage (which warned that premises were monitored for safety and security reasons, and referred users to a company privacy policy on the company website), that the images themselves were only stored temporarily for analysis before being deleted, and that they could not individually identify a visitor.
Properties Cadillac Fairview owns, develops, and manages property, malls and large office and retail spaces across the Western Hemisphere, mostly in North America. Cadillac Fairview has also developed suburban housing, such as the Erin Mills "New Town". Among its Canadian assets are five Quebec properties, twenty-five Ontario properties, two Manitoba properties, eight Alberta properties, and fourteen British Columbia properties.
Cadillac Fairview's malls are generally large and high-quality, with high-end stores and high sales per square foot. For instance, sales at the Toronto Eaton Centre, a CF mall, were $1500 per square foot, while lower-end malls have sales closer to $325 per square foot. Cadillac Fairview has actively tried to sell weak malls, reducing its mall count from a high of 40 to around 20 in 2017.
Notable properties managed by Cadillac Fairview, some co-owned with (or managed on behalf of) other investors, are listed below.
Property name Location Property type Year opened Carrefour Laval Laval, Quebec Shopping centre 1974 Chinook Centre Calgary, Alberta Shopping centre 1960 Fairview Mall Toronto (North York), Ontario Shopping centre 1970 Fairview Pointe-Claire Pointe-Claire, Quebec Shopping centre 1965 Market Mall Calgary, Alberta Shopping centre 1971 Markville Shopping Centre Markham, Ontario Shopping centre 1982 Masonville Place London, Ontario Shopping centre 1985 Pacific Centre Vancouver, British Columbia Shopping centre and office towers 1971 Polo Park Winnipeg, Manitoba Shopping centre 1959 Richmond Centre Richmond, British Columbia Shopping centre 1964 Rideau Centre Ottawa, Ontario Shopping centre and office tower 1983 Sherway Gardens Toronto (Etobicoke), Ontario Shopping centre 1971 16 York Street Toronto, Ontario Office tower 2019 Shops at Don Mills Toronto, Ontario Shopping centre 2009 Deloitte Tower Montreal, Quebec Office tower 2015 Maple Leaf Square Toronto, Ontario Multi-use complex 2010 RBC Centre Toronto, Ontario Office tower 2009 Simcoe Place Toronto, Ontario Office tower with retail concourse 1995TD TerraceToronto, OntarioOffice tower2024 Toronto-Dominion Centre Toronto, Ontario Office complex with retail concourse 1969 Toronto Eaton Centre Toronto, Ontario Shopping centre and office towers 1977 Waterfront Station Vancouver, British Columbia Transportation facility 1914 Windsor Station Montreal, Quebec Office and retail complex; former railway station 1889
Notable former properties
Property name Location Property type Year opened The Bay Centre Victoria, British Columbia Shopping centre 1989 Champlain Place Dieppe, New Brunswick Shopping centre 1974 Erin Mills Town Centre Mississauga (Erin Mills), Ontario Shopping centre 1989 Fairview Park Mall Kitchener, Ontario Shopping centre 1966 Galeries d'Anjou Montreal (Anjou), Quebec Shopping centre 1968 Galeries Chagnon Lévis, Quebec Shopping centre 1974 Georgian Mall Barrie, Ontario Shopping centre 1968Lime Ridge MallHamilton, OntarioShopping centre1981 McAllister Place Saint John, New Brunswick Shopping Centre 1978 Place Montréal Trust Montreal, Quebec Shopping centre 1988 Promenade Shopping Centre Thornhill, Ontario Shopping centre 1986Promenades St-BrunoSaint-Bruno-de-Montarville, QuebecShopping centre1978 Regent Mall Fredericton, New Brunswick Shopping centre 1976 The Galleria at White Plains White Plains, New York Shopping centre 1980 Woodbine Centre Toronto (Etobicoke, Rexdale), Ontario Shopping centre 1985
References
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