// COMPANY DOSSIER
East Port Properties Limited
Atlantic Canada commercial real estate developer, builder and property manager that designs, develops, constructs and operates workplace real estate — office, industrial/warehouse, research and recreational space — with a focus on energy-efficient, low/zero-carbon buildings. Best known for the Wilkinson Avenue multi-tenant warehouse development in Dartmouth, NS.
📍 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CanadaEst. 1981✓ 100% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM East Port Properties Limited
“people ask us who's your number one competitor and I say the granite countertop guy down the road”
“they did a test in Toronto using low Teddy buildings and they ran that test for up to two weeks”
“Finance trumps everything isn't just for private this is something you deal with publicly as well”
“the feds put out the program for the green homes right they're going okay we're going to spend this money”
“we had a developer involved locally who was kind of a front-runner and a leader as far as Net Zero”
“I was thinking about a post I seen on LinkedIn this winter I think it was esport properties did a test”
“when the 2020 code went out for public consultation it had mandatory blower door testing in it”
“it was interesting when Roxanne and I started our business we were looking for an opportunity”
“Keith and I did a presentation for public works and that was their piece”
// LESSONS FROM East Port Properties Limited
Sequence net-zero upgrades by demand reduction first: super-insulate, right-size windows, right-size mechanicals, then offset residual load with renewables — in that order.
Splitting capital and operating budgets across different entities (province builds, school board pays bills) is the structural root cause of under-investment in building energy performance.
Developers with tenant-paid utilities have a rational incentive to build to minimum code; removing that misalignment requires either mandatory labelling or split-incentive reform.
BC’s step code — a pre-announced ratchet of air-tightness and insulation targets every 3–5 years — is the most replicable model for driving industry-wide performance improvement without market shock.
Mandatory energy labelling at point-of-sale is the single fastest behaviour-change lever for the existing housing stock, provided it is phased in starting with new construction.
Air-tightness is the highest-ROI first step in any retrofit because it reduces the demand on every downstream system — mechanicals, renewables, and insulation all shrink.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
355 Wilkinson Avenue (The Wilkinson Project, Phase 1)
CompletedDeveloper, builder and property manager
65,000 sq ft warehouse; first phase of an approx. 300,000 sq ft development. Earned Zero Carbon Building – Design (ZCB-Design) certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC), dated by CaGBC's case study to Aug 7, 2020 (certification awarded for the achievement in fall 2019). Currently fully leased per the live developments page.
The Wilkinson Project (Wilkinson Avenue warehouses)
In progressDeveloper, builder and property manager
Approx. 300,000 sq ft across multiple multi-tenant warehouse buildings (315, 355, 409, 495, 499 Wilkinson Ave). First building scheduled for occupancy spring 2018. Marketed as 'a new generation of zero carbon warehouses.' Treated as in_progress/ongoing: live site lease listings still show available sq ft at 409 and 499 Wilkinson (freshness-checked 2026-06-14 against the live developments page), so the campus is built and operating but not fully built-out/leased.
Bluefrog Business Campus (Bluefrog 120 and 130)
CompletedDeveloper and property manager
Business campus comprising the Bluefrog 120 and Bluefrog 130 buildings; described on the first-party developments page as surrounded by lakes and walking trails. Year not stated by the source, so left blank.
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
Its 355 Wilkinson Ave warehouse in Dartmouth, NS became the first industrial building in Canada to earn Canada Green Building Council Zero Carbon Building – Design (ZCB-Design) certification (achieved fall 2019), as part of CaGBC's Zero Carbon Building pilot.
SOURCE ▸In May 2017, long-time employees Judy Wall and Alison MacKinnon took full ownership of East Port Properties (Wall as President, MacKinnon as CFO), with prior owner John Lindsay moving to Chairman; the same announcement states the firm was founded in 1981.
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