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Ottawa, ON – September 14, 2012 – The Minto Group’s 180 Kent Street office tower has been named Canada’s Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY®) by the Building Owners and Management Association of Canada (BOMA). This prestigious honour recognizes the utmost quality in commercial real estate buildings and rewards excellence in building management.
Ottawa, ON – May 10, 2012 – The Minto Group’s 180 Kent Street office tower was named The Outstanding Building of the Year by the Ottawa chapter of the Building Owners and Management Association. This prestigious honour recognizes the utmost quality in commercial real estate buildings and rewards excellence in building management. The award also signifies Minto’s invitation to participate in BOMA Canada’s National TOBY® Awards.
ON – 2012 – Minto Communities Canada is named as leader in two prestigious categories by EnerQuality, Canada’s foremost provider of green building services. Minto Communities Inc. was awarded the two highest honours at last week’s EnerQuality Awards of Excellence, 2011 Green Builder of the Year and 2011 Leader of the Year. The organization congratulated Minto’s vast achievements in green building.
Ottawa, ON – January 26, 2012 – The Minto Group’s 180 Kent Street office tower became the first and only building in Ottawa to receive the Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada (BOMA) Building Environmental Standards (BESt) Level 4 certification – BOMA’s highest level of recognition for excellence in environmental best practices within the commercial building industry.
ON – 2011 – Minto Properties Inc. has earned two prestigious industry accolades at the 2011 Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) MAC (Marketing, Achievement and Construction) Awards and was also named finalist in four other categories. Every year FRPO members come together, at the annual Awards Gala Dinner, to celebrate businesses and individuals who are leaders in the residential rental housing industry.
Waterloo, ON – November 17, 2011 – The Minto Group announced today it has donated $1 million to the University of Waterloo’s newest building in the faculty of environment, Environment 3. Every year FRPO members come together, at the annual Awards Gala Dinner, to celebrate businesses and individuals who are leaders in the residential rental housing industry.
Ottawa, ON – November 10, 2011 – The University of Ottawa announced today that its Sports Complex, located at 801 King Edward Avenue, has been named the Minto Sports Complex in recognition of The Minto Group’s $2.5 million contribution to the uOttawa community. Part of this gift included facilitating the acquisition of the land where the Desmarais Building now stands.
Ottawa, ON – September 27, 2011 – The Minto Group has once again been awarded the prestigious GREEN Builder of the Year award by the Ontario Home Builders’ Association. The award is presented to a company that continuously exhibits environmentally-friendly building designs and techniques, leading-edge waste management strategies, an exemplary internal green culture and support of the sustainable building industry.
Ottawa, ON – May 19, 2011 – As one of Canada’s most established green homebuilders, The Minto Group has been applauded by the Canadian Secretariat for the Asia Pacific Partnership (APP) on Clean Development and Climate for its significant role in the Canada-led Zero Energy Housing project. The APP was a public-private partnership of seven countries – Canada, Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the United States.
ON – 2011 – At a time when the housing market and many homebuilders have been struggling, the Canadian-based Minto Communities has been expanding operations into Florida's west coast, according to Michael Belmont, president. Beginning with its acquisition of Harbour Isle in July 2009 and its recent acquisition Sun City Center, Minto Communities has become a formidable presence in the Tampa Bay housing market.