We are very happy to announce that another leading commercial real estate portfolio, Morguard Investments, has recently joined our growing list of landlords to select the Arcestra platform to market their assets and availabilities. Created with a unified strong brand, this project is the first phase of a nationwide rollout. The Arcestra solution will allow brokers and prospective tenants to seamlessly access Morguard's assets and availabilities. Users will be able to evaluate their potential options in a visually enhanced user experience.

Morguard Investments' availability summurywebsite will be the first to feature the ability to manage custom marketing for specific buildings. This will include detailed building and suite information, 2D and 3D interactive floor plans, share-ability and the ability to provide details on specific features and amenities for key properties.

The Arcestra powered solution provides Morguard with a unique, user-friendly environment that will enable Brokers to effectively and easily market to prospective tenants through various platforms, including the iPad and other mobile devices.  

Congratulations and Thank You Morguard, for selecting Arcestra and recognizing the benefits in a competitive marketplace.  

Another leading client, another great portfolio of buildings powered by the Arcestra platform! Great West Life Realty Advisors will be using Arcestra to transform the leasing process for brokers, tenants and its staff across the country, with seamless access to assets and availabilities, an interactive customer portal and dynamic marketing materials easily shared across a variety of platforms including iPads and other mobile devices.

The GWLRA web site, fully bilingual, will host 2D and 3D interactive floor plans, with a unique building page design, including the addition of features and amenities for key properties. The end result is a user friendly online environment that helps brokers market to prospective tenants more efficiently and effectively.  We’re delighted that GWLRA has recognized the benefits of Arcestra in a competitive marketplace.

Each year Toronto's commercial real estate community gathers to celebrate the past year's accomplishments by its members at the NAIOP Real Estate Excellence Awards (REX Awards). On March 7, 2012 Oxford Properties Group Inc, CPPIB, WZMH, Royal Bank of Canada, Colliers International, Goodmans LLP and Blake Cassels and Graydon LLP won the Office Lease of the Year Award for the Royal Bank of Canada's new office lease at RBC WaterPark Place. The Royal Bank of Canada will lease 16 floors in the to be completed 30 storey, 930,000 sf, LEED Gold CS tower. RBC WaterPark Place will be the 3rd tower in a 1.7 million square foot office complex co-owned by Oxford Properties Group Inc and CPPIB. One of the most significant contributions to be made as a result of this lease commitment by RBC will be the new PATH connection to Union Station via a plus 15 bridge that will finally open up the waterfront to the financial core. The opening of RBC WaterPark Place is scheduled for October 2014. 

In assisting with this mandate, Arcestra played a role in creating animations and 3D interactive content. To view the animation please click here

John Peets, Vice President, Leasing, Oxford Properties Group, talks about how they used Arcestra to lease WaterPark Place III. 

We are very pleased to announce that Bentall Kennedy recently joined our distinguished list of landlords using the Arcestra platform to manage their office and industrial building portfolio across Canada and the US. This is a significant accomplishment for Arcestra!

The Arcestra platform will power  Bentall Kennedy’s website, allowing seamless access to their assets and availabilities across two countries. Brokers will be able to quickly search Bentall Kennedy's portfolio of vacancies through a fully integrated, all-digital, hyper-linked and interactive online portal. The solution will enable Brokers to easily and effectively share user-friendly marketing materials and communication with prospective tenants across a variety of platforms, including mobile devices such as ipads!

The website will host:

• 2D Floorplans
• 3D Interactive Floorplans
• Sharability

Thank you, Bentall Kennedy for selecting Arcestra to manage your office and industrial portfolio.

The CIX(Canadian Innovation Exchange) Top 20 is a unique program designed to showcase Canada's hottest innovative companies working in Digital Media and Information and Communication Technology.

An expert panel of innovation leaders will select 20 technology companies from across Canada to be featured in a live showcase at CIX 2011, taking place December 1st at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. 

The CIX Top 20 will serve as an elite index of the most forward-looking companies in the Canadian innovation ecosystem, and work to connect the key players driving technology-based business both in Canada and beyond.

For more information visit CIX 

At this very moment, the largest urban renewal project in North America, and one of the most ambitions waterfront revitalizations ever undertaken in the world, is transforming 800 hectares of prime but neglected urban space into vibrant and sustainable mixed-use communities.  Upon completion, the project will include over 40,000 residential units, 1 million sq. meters (10.76 million sq. ft) of commercial real estate and 300 hectares of public parks.  And it’s all happening right here in Toronto. 

Waterfront Toronto is the force behind “Toronto’s new blue edge”, a renewal initiative driven to rethink, reimagine and redefine the potential for waterfront real estate in an urban setting.  With an emphasis on parks and public spaces, and a view to create a world model for urban space and planning, Waterfront Toronto is heralding environmentally and economically sustainable communities over wanton expansion.  These principles have seen the project avail of the most innovative approaches to sustainable development, excellence in urban design, leading technology infrastructure and the delivery of important public policy objectives. 

Arcestra has been helping to bring this vision to life in the form of computer-generated 3D models, interactive media and digital imagery for use online and to inform the community (Waterfront Toronto - Report to the Community 2011).  Because a project of this scale will make such an impact on both public and private interests, the translation of abstract drawings, plans and concepts into a more visually compelling and comprehensible form was vital to securing support from all influencing parties.  Arcestra's visualization enabled everyone to see the communities imagined by Waterfront Toronto, to experience and understand the breadth and scope of the entire project as it will be when complete. 

Waterfront Toronto is the public advocate and steward of Toronto’s waterfront revitalization.  Created by the Governments of Canada and Ontario and the City of Toronto, Waterfront Toronto is mandated to deliver a revitalized waterfront and a leading edge city-building model that seeks to place Toronto at the forefront of global cities in the 21st century (see image below).  The project is advancing in phases with construction currently underway in Central Waterfront, East Bayfront and West Don Lands, and initial planning complete for Lower Don Lands.

Thank you, Waterfront Toronto -- this project is reshaping our home city and we are honoured to be a part of it.

Arcestra is invited by Realcomm to speak in the Corporate Real Estate Technology INNOVATION MEGA-SESSION at the CoRE Tech 2011 Conference (October 11-12) in Washington D. C. 

Arcestra's Chief Strategy Officer, Alfonso Licata, will speak at this conference and demonstrate how innovative use of 3D technology can simplify and speed up commercial real estate leasing and other (eg. facility management) decisions.  This innovative use of 3D brings about significant benefits to all in the CRE ecosystem - landlords, brokers, tenants, designers, and suppliers.

Arcestra is glad to be part of this conference and would like to take this opportunity to thank Realcomm for inviting us to speak at the event.

We like to congratulate Oxford on fully completing the leases on two of the six “Big Blocks” properties within two months of launching the Big Blocks campaign.  These two buildings had over 110,000 sq. ft. of vacancies when the program was launched.

Since the Big Blocks site launched in July, Arcestra has further improved visualizations with customized higher quality 3D walkthroughs to better highlight these premium properties.  Experience these customized visualizations on Oxford's Big Blocks website 

Arcestra is pleased to have had the opportunity to power the Big Blocks campaign.  The stand-alone website powered by Arcestra, is a highly shareable and interactive marketing tool housing pertinent building information, suite availability, 3D floor plans, high quality animated flyby videos and interior walkthroughs - all of which were customized by the Arcestra team.

http://www.oxfordbigblocks.com/