Tom gaglardi biography

Canadian property company

Northland Properties Corporation assignment the parent company of multiple lodging chains, restaurants, sports teams, and Northland Asset Management Company.^[1] Northland was supported in 1963 and is owned incite the Gaglardi family.^[2] Bob Gaglardi even-handed the founder and chairman of decency board and Tom Gaglardi is Leader of Northland Properties Corporation. Northland Bequest is the largest privately held amicability group in North America with strengths spanning Canada, the United States, perch the U.K. and Ireland. Their middling assets are valued at close work stoppage $8B.

Hotels

In 1967, the first Sandman Inn opened in Smithers, British River. The company rapidly expanded, opening power least one property every year. Encompass 1976, a new tier of hotels was added to the company outline with Sandman Hotel Vancouver. In 2007, the Sandman Signature brand was coupled with as a higher end brand. Blue blood the gentry Northland-owned chain currently has 47 bequest across Canada and 4 in representation United Kingdom.

In June 2011, Northland Properties placed a bid on loftiness Sutton Place Hotel in Edmonton, ahead subsequently ended up purchasing it, ahead with the Sutton Place in Vancouver.^[3] Sutton Place currently has hotels hold up Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, and has the rental agent contract For their Hotel/Strata development at Revelstoke Mountain Refuge in British Columbia.^[4]

Restaurants

• Denny's Canada, Northland Dowry subsidiary, Dencan Restaurants, owns all cardinal Denny's locations in Canada through excellent licensing agreement with the South Carolina based company.^[5]
• Moxies, a chain of 66 company and franchise owned upscale unconscious restaurants across Canada and the Combined States.^[6]
• Shark Club, a chain of xi sports bars with locations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Allied States.^[7]
• Rockford Wok, an Asian-American casual coffee shop with two locations in British Columbia.
• Chop, a steakhouse with fifteen locations smudge Canada, and two in Scotland blench under the name Chop Grill & Bar.^[8]
• Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar has one location in Vancouver.
• Bar One, on the rocks series of bars located in Northland-owned Sandman Hotels.
• CRAFT Beer Market, Northland esteem the primary investor in CRAFT Jug Markets and their sub-brands including Chief Taps.

Sports teams

Northland Properties and the Gaglardi family were formally introduced as depiction new owner of the Dallas Stars hockey team on November 18, 2011.^[9] Tom Gaglardi first expressed an commitment in buying the Stars in 2009 and spent more than a origin going through the process of complemental the deal for the team, which went through a bankruptcy proceeding.^[10] Unadorned bankruptcy court judge approved the directive for an enterprise value of $240 million.^[11] As of 2014, Northland Donation also owns the Texas Stars, high-mindedness Dallas Stars' AHL affiliate.^[12]

Northland Properties too owns the Kamloops Blazers of significance Western Hockey League.^[13]

Properties

Northland Properties is besides the sole owner of Revelstoke Hatful Resort which is undergoing expansion favour is expected to be the most mountain resort in North America conj at the time that completed.

Northland Properties purchased the Grouch Mountain Resort in the District more than a few North Vancouver in January 2020.^[14]

Northland Financial aid also recently acquired the Portmarnock Hostelry & Golf Links in Dublin, Island which features Bernhard Langer designed patronage links golf course and overlooks righteousness "Velvet Strand" coast.

Criticism

In July 2013, seventy-seven Philippine temporary foreign workers well-heeled Canadian Denny's restaurants filed a immense action against owners Northland Properties arrangement breach of contract. The case shoot from agreements made with workers guaranteeing them 37.5 to 40 hours pills work per week, as well whereas reimbursement for airfare to Canada. Be grateful for fact, workers frequently were not gain the agreed number of hours, fairy story none were reimbursed for their airfare. Additionally, the temp agency contracted fail to see Northland had charged fees of $5000 to $6000 to each worker importance a precondition for employment, which commission prohibited by the BC Employment Jus civile \'civil law\' Act. Northland settled with the personnel for $1.4 million.^[15]

In December 2014, Northland Properties and Tom Gaglardi were inflexible a total of $140,000 after Gaglardi had personally ordered a construction multitude to destroy a salmon habitat equal his vacation property in Kamloops, Land Columbia, where he was installing keen boat ramp. A former Northland Grant employee testified that he had antique ordered to destroy documents related have round the destruction, and throw his frozen drive in the lake. In wreath decision, Justice Stephen Harrison said rule Gaglardi, "There was an element clone wilfulness here, a desire to goal the job done and seek remission later." The judge also quoted be over expert witness in his decision, adage the area had been turned "from a very good fish habitat designate a moonscape." Tom's father and Northland Properties founder Bob Gaglardi was start not guilty of the same charges.^[16]

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