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Remington proud to support Evergreen’s City Builders Gallery

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Remington proud to support Evergreen’s City Builders Gallery

The Remington Group is proud to be a member of the City Builders Gallery, a unique art and exhibit space within the historic drying kilns at Evergreen Brick Works.

Evergreen Brick Works, located on the Bayview Extension in the Don River Valley, is a sprawling campus of heritage buildings that have been transformed into an award-winning public space showcasing green design and sustainable projects intended to enable flourishing cities of the future.

The City Builders Gallery is an art and exhibit space nestled inside one of the historic drying kilns formerly used for drying the bricks that built thousands of the buildings in the Greater Toronto Area.

“The City Builders Gallery will explore the past, present and future of cities,” said Chris Bratty, President of Land Developments and Investments for The Remington Group. “As developers, we can play a key role in this evolution so we felt it was important to support this initiative.”

The space is intended to serve as an example of what can be accomplished when city leaders come together to build a strong and prosperous city.

“The Kiln Building Redevelopment is not your typical retrofit,” said Geoff Cape, Evergreen CEO, on the Evergreen website. “Working closely with our construction and design partners, the project is leading the way in creating inclusive, low carbon flourishing cities of the future.

“We are grateful for the generous and ongoing support of our partners in further establishing Evergreen Brick Works as the destination for urban innovation in Canada.”

Remington understands the value of these partnerships in building communities and is proud to support green initiatives, which offer residents, employees and customers healthier, more inspiring places to live, work and shop. Remington is a long-standing member of the Canada Green Building Council and as of 2011, all new Remington Homes are ENERGY STAR® certified and designed to exceed industry standards in occupant comfort, building performance and longevity.

“Staying at the forefront of green building initiatives involves working closely with municipalities, service providers, consultants, and environmental groups to ensure that we are implementing the most cutting edge and resilient technologies available,” said Bratty.

Being a member of the City Builders Gallery reflects The Remington Group’s commitment to green design and sustainable building projects that will shape Ontario’s future.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS: https://www.evergreen.ca/

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE REMINGTON GROUP: https://www.remingtongroupinc.com

Downtown Markham Hosts Rogers Hometown Hockey

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Downtown Markham Hosts Rogers Hometown Hockey

Thousands of fans descended on Downtown Markham as the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour rolled into the city. The national tour set up camp for two days as the City of Markham showed their love of the game with a three-day Hockey Celebration Weekend.

The Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour featured ball hockey, autograph sessions with Curtis Joseph and Rick Vaive, interactive games, live music and much more.

Hosts Ron Maclean and Tara Slone took to the stage to cap off a weekend of hockey fun prior to the national broadcast of the Winnipeg Jets and Carolina Hurricanes game streamed live from Downtown Markham.

Rudolph Bratty Receives Honourary Doctor of Laws

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Rudolph Bratty Receives Honourary Doctor of Laws

Rudolph P. Bratty, CEO of The Remington Group and founder of Brattys, LLP, was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree during York University’s third fall convocation ceremony in October. During his speech to graduands of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Mr. Bratty stressed that success hinges on a strong educational foundation.
“I suppose it all started about 70 years ago when I finished high school,” said Mr. Bratty. “I told my dad that I wanted to build houses and be a developer and be a small builder, and he said ‘no’, in his broken English … he said ‘you go school.’ I said, ‘Dad, I want to be a builder’, and he said, ‘you go school.’ “So, I had two choices: I go to school or I go to school.”
Following his father Donato Bratty’s directive, he went to school and earned a bachelor’s degree. He then went back to his father for more advice, saying again that he wanted to be a developer, to which his father replied: “You go school.” At that time, Bratty recalls having more “acceptance about going to school.”
And his father had yet more advice about exactly which path that education should take, suggesting he become a professional – a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant – and use his Italian background to help the huge wave of immigrants coming over from Europe at that time.
“So I became a lawyer,” said Mr. Bratty, who obtained his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, was called to the bar in 1957 and was appointed to the Queen’s Council in 1970. “Interestingly enough, it is 60 years now that I’ve been a lawyer. My firm still exists, we’re busy as heck … and I’m extremely proud of it.”
And, through The Remington Group, he has more than fulfilled his dream of becoming a developer. Referred to as ‘The Man Who Built Toronto’, Mr. Bratty has established himself as one of Canada’s pre-eminent real estate developers. “Education is so important,” said Mr. Bratty. “Education breeds intelligence, intelligence breeds understanding and understanding breeds resolution.”

The Remington Group salutes Mr. Rudolph P. Bratty and celebrates his success and lifelong commitment to excellence.

NY Times images donated to Ryerson

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NY Times images donated to Ryerson

The Rudolph P. Family Foundation has donated nearly 25,000 press photos from the New York Times to Ryerson University.

The images, collectively known as the New York Times Canadian Photo Archive, were acquired by the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Foundation in a generous act of cultural repatriation.

“This collection captures thousands of Canadian stories over the course of the 20th Century. It gives me great pleasure to bring it home to Canada, where it can tell those stories to Canadians,” said Christopher Bratty, representing the family.

Ryerson president Mohamed Lachemi called the donation an “extraordinary gift from Mr. Bratty.” He said it further established the RIC and Ryerson as a key international repository for significant archives of press photography.

The collection was introduced to the public with the exhibition The Faraway Nearby, which examined a century of Canada’s history and its representation in the leading American “newspaper of record.”