Services

 

Acquisitions, Dispositions, Leasing, Financing

Whether you are negotiating purchase and sale documentation, leases, financing, co-ownership agreements, or development and construction agreements, you should expect your lawyer to not merely identify your legal risks but help quantify those risks and offer solutions for the larger ones. Terra Legal focuses on solutions to the issues that matter to our clients.

 

Land Use Planning & Development

“From dirt to doors” is an expression among land developers that conflates what is a lengthy, complex, and expensive process. Having a lawyer who knows the development process from dirt to doors is invaluable. Terra Legal knows land development. We know the regulatory approval process for land use, subdivision, and development. We make a point of knowing the regulatory authority, from the municipal council to its planning administration. Our expertise saves our clients time and money, and protects them from unnecessary risk.

 

Land Use Planning & Development Advocacy

Appeals of development decisions from municipal councils or their delegated approving authorities are not undertaken lightly but can be a highly effective means of achieving a fairer outcome. That is, if you have the right advocate on your side. Terra Legal is that advocate. Robert Homersham has a lengthy record of success before municipal councils, development appeal boards, and the Court of Appeal. While we would always recommend seeking our advice early in the development entitlement process so that we can work with your survey, planning, or architectural consultants to achieve highest and best use in the first instance, development approvals are never a certainty. If your development is delayed, conditioned, or refused for reasons that do not align with its planning merits, give us a call.

 

Representative Work - Transactional

·  A major real estate investment fund on the acquisition and financing of an industrial portfolio in Rocky View County.

·  A major real estate investment fund on the acquisition and financing of an industrial portfolio in Calgary.

·  A major real estate investment fund on the refinancing of its long-term ground leasehold interest.

·  A local developer on the land assembly and acquisition of a prominent redevelopment site in Calgary.

·  A client in the acquisition of a portfolio of investment and development properties in Calgary.

·  An international real estate developer on the construction financing of a mixed-use residential tower in the East Village, Calgary.

·  The Canadian entity of a US REIT on the acquisition and development of sites for its self-storage business.

·  Numerous clients, both landlord and tenant, in the negotiation of office, industrial, and retail leases.

 

Representative Work - Land Use Planning & Development

· Numerous major developers, both greenfield and redevelopment, on land use redesignations, subdivision and development applications, development agreements, construction finance agreements, levies, endeavours to assist, and financing.

·  A national real estate developer on the acquisition, entitlement, strata subdivision, condominium subdivision, and financing of a phased mixed-use residential tower development in Calgary.

·  A major local developer on the acquisition, land use redesignation, and strata subdivision of underground strata parcels from The City of Calgary, condominium subdivision, condominium unit purchase and disclosure documents, and negotiation drafting of numerous easements in respect of a phased mixed-use residential tower development in Calgary.

 

Representative Work - Planning & Development Advocacy

·   A client in the defence of an appeal of a permit for redevelopment of golf course lands before the Calgary Subdivision and Development Appeal Board (SDAB).

·   A client in the defence of an appeal to the SDAB of a single development permit approval for a mixed-use retail/residential condominium in Marda Loop on behalf of a national developer.

·   A client in the appeal of certain subdivision conditions imposed by Rocky View County before the Municipal Government Board on behalf of a greenfield residential developer.

·   A client in the appeal of certain conditions of a subdivision approval imposed by The City of Calgary.

·   A community association in an appeal of a proposed development of a fast food restaurant in their established neighbourhood.

·   A local developer in an appeal of a subdivision refusal in an established neighbourhood.

·   A resort developer regarding a municipality's downzoning or de facto expropriation.