TransLink and Wesgroup Properties sign long-term partnership for consolidated head office facility
September 3, 2010
Vancouver, BC, Canada – Wesgroup Properties is pleased to announce that TransLink has selected The
Brewery District as the future location for the consolidated operations of their Head Office and Transit Police
facility with a long-term lease arrangement.
Currently in two separate facilities, TransLink and the Transit Police set out on a two-year competitive and
transparent process to identify strategic locations and opportunities that would increase efficiencies across their
operations.
The new facility at The Brewery District will be located at the Sapperton SkyTrain Station in New Westminster,
BC next to the Royal Columbian Hospital within the mixed-use, transit-oriented development currently under
construction.
A unique land-use policy, highly efficient building and floor plate design, combined with other sustainably focused features, have resulted in significant cost savings that enabled Wesgroup to meet TransLink's requirements.
Wesgroup President Gino Nonni says his company's proposal met TransLink's requirements on a number of
levels beyond its specific office needs. "We realized that the facility we're going to build, both in design and
location, is consistent with TransLink's broader goals. It's next to SkyTrain and it will anchor other retail and
residential developments that will put more people and jobs where rapid transit is an attractive travel option."
"With growth in the Tri-Cities and the South of Fraser region, TransLink and the Transit Police will be locating
close to the true center of Metro Vancouver," Nonni says.
This new facility will bring approximately 500 new jobs to the City of New Westminster, and the building will
provide additional retail amenities and commercial opportunities to the community as a whole. TransLink and
Transit Police employees will have the opportunity to live where they work, meeting TransLink's criteria for
increasing densities near rapid transit services, as additional residential and commercial development is also
taking place at The Brewery District.
Construction on the new TransLink and Transit Police facility will commence in early 2011, with completion in
2013.
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