Everything I ever dealt with Westrich over gave me the feeling that I was dealing with an extremely fly-by-night outfit. Everything was alarm bells. The guy in charge especially just gave off this "trying very hard to play a successful businessman" vibe.
They have delivered on several high-rise and mid-rise projects in Edmonton, have ~1,500 units under development in Edmonton alone, and have projects under development in Ottawa, Kelowna, Calgary and the Vancouver area.
Perhaps, but it's never going to surprise me when they mysteriously dial a project wayyyy back in scope, or end up doing something like using a crane which covers too much of the neighbours property and then try pretend the neighbour agreed to it, or they run up against project delays because their design turns out to be a nightmare to run wiring or plumbing in, or ends up with flooding right out of the gate, or when they back out of a condo sale right before possession because they decide they're going with rentals, or some other Potemkin Village weirdness pops up with them.
I imagine as a developer you get so many unreasonable NIMBY style complaints mixed in with the legitimate concerns it gets overwhelming to differentiate between the two and they get numb to it. Not saying its a good thing but that is understandable.
It's bad that I can immediately picture that "guy", there are waaay too many of them.
Hell, the city is full of people who are mad that where my new house is isn't still an airport and they can't take a PWA 737-200 to Calgary and smoke on the plane. I run across demands online that they actually tear it down and re-open the airport. On the other hand, there's a CERTAIN builder in that development who literally just glued mantlepieces to the wall (and is thankfully no longer a builder there).
I am confident that your mental image is largely correct.
And the 30 under 30 pipeline to prison is also really strong even though all those people looked successful for a season.
amp.theguardian.com
Oh dear. I'm not sure I see him ending up there, but I'm also not sure that I don't.And the 30 under 30 pipeline to prison is also really strong even though all those people looked successful for a season.
30 under 30-year sentences: why so many of Forbes’ young heroes face jail
Ex-CEO Charlie Javice, 31, is just the latest from the magazine’s list to see criminal charges
Equipment has arrived to remove the old crane. Notice specified that the crane was to be replaced with a different crane, but I expect we'll see that tomorrow.
