Priorities
Employment, housing and trades equity
Creating union jobs, providing a diversity of housing options and supporting trades training for historically underrepresented groups.
Community connectedness and wellbeing
Supporting residents to forge new or deeper relationships with neighbours, enhancing their sense of belonging, safety and wellbeing.
Employee engagement and inclusion
Embedding diversity and inclusion by building a people-first culture, where employees are heard, valued and empowered to contribute meaningfully and with purpose.
We believe everyone deserves an equal opportunity to succeed, but it doesn’t happen by accident. We worked hard to embed the updated DEI Framework in all departments and empower team leaders across the company to champion DEI principles.Aran Clarke, Chief Corporate Services Officer
Our Social Impact
Giving Back to Our Communities
Concert Properties is committed to giving back to the communities where we work and invest. Financially, some of the largest causes we supported were trades training, the Terry Fox Foundation and Covenant House.
Investing in Trades Training
Our annual charity golf tournaments in Vancouver, BC, and Toronto, Ontario, brought together partners, consultants and suppliers to support skilled trades education across Canada. The 2025 music-themed tournaments raised $325,000, funding bursaries, scholarships and training programs, and bringing Concert Properties’ total contribution to trades education to over $5.3 million since 1995. As part of our Reconciliation Action Plan, we encourage our educational partners to use our funds to support Indigenous students and consider ways to support students facing different barriers to trades training.
Giving and Volunteering
From collecting socks for homeless youth and professional attire for women, to donating essential care items for seniors and making life-saving blood donations, our employees step up for various causes. Our 2025 Employee Engagement Survey gave us an opportunity to ask for feedback about how we could help employees to be active in their communities. Many employees provided thoughtful feedback, and as a result, the company introduced a paid volunteer day for employees to dedicate to their own communities. We also established clearer guidelines for organizational charitable giving and commitments, and guidelines for employee-led initiatives.
Learning About Indigenous Histories
Our Reconciliation Action Plan calls on Concert Properties to first deepen and promote understanding of our shared histories with Indigenous Peoples, because we must learn before we can respectfully act on reconciliation. In that spirit, we created an Indigenous Mapping Guide and an interactive web module to acknowledge, identify and honour the traditional territories where our properties are located. This resource is available to our team, partners and community members and was introduced by our interim CEO at an all-employee town hall.
We offered Concert Properties employees various opportunities in 2025 to deepen their understanding. For example, film screenings explored Indigenous storytelling, identity and media representation, sparking thoughtful discussions about how narratives shape perceptions. Employees in Toronto, Ontario and Victoria, BC, participated in educational walking tours, where guides shared their knowledge of Indigenous traditions and history. In Vancouver, BC, employees came together to play an Indigenous-designed game that explored Coast Salish economics and values of reciprocity and community. In our company-wide recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we heard from residential school survivor and Squamish Nation Councillor Sempúlyan Stewart Gonzales, who gave us a powerful, personal view into his journey of healing and resilience.
Concert Properties vice presidents Michael Guenter and Ruth Legg joined the BC Assembly of First Nations Housing Forum, which showcased Indigenous-led efforts to decolonize development and create culturally relevant housing solutions. “It was inspiring to hear about our governments investing in large-scale, community-driven affordable Indigenous housing projects,” Michael said. “We were grateful for the opportunity to listen, learn and better understand BC’s complex Indigenous housing landscape.”
Keeping Pool Access Afloat
Partnership and use of a Concert development site helps ensure core recreation services remain available while the city’s only public pool is being replaced. Concert Properties purchased 851 Broughton Street in downtown Victoria in 2018 with the intention of eventually redeveloping the site. During that time, the YMCA-YWCA Vancouver Island continued leasing the building until moving to their new facility at the Bay Centre.
In 2025, Victoria residents voted in favour of replacing the aging Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre, the city’s only public pool. With construction of the new pool expected to take approximately five years, Concert Properties and the City of Victoria finalized an agreement to maintain public access to a pool over that period. Under the agreement, the municipality will use the 851 Broughton Street building as an interim recreation hub while the Crystal Pool is being rebuilt.
The agreement ensures the ongoing availability of public recreation activities such as swim clubs, swim lessons and fitness programs, while also enabling Concert to support key community services.
Social Sustainability
Concert Properties recognizes that building community goes beyond the simple bricks and mortar of our assets, but is also reliant on how we operate these buildings and support our residents. We start with thoughtful design that improves the fabric of our communities and then take an active role in making them places for people to live, work, play and build social connections.
Our Social Sustainability principles, goals and targets embody our long-standing commitment to be the progressive leader in Canadian real estate for generations.