// COMPANY DOSSIER
Paramount Management
Family-owned, full-service residential and commercial property management firm and the property-management division of Halifax's Lawen Group. Manages and leases the apartments, mixed-use buildings and commercial space developed by the Lawen Group's development arm, Dexel, across the Halifax Regional Municipality.
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// CLIPS FROM Paramount Management
“it was 2006 there was not much going on here”
“if you really want to be successful in this business you need to learn all parts of it”
“that lot was just a sore point for halifax for my entire lifetime”
“height is a challenge heritage is a challenge always in halifax”
“i'll give you an example with the george i had the construction permit and we broke ground about two days after”
“the george has this idea of volumes kind of skewed on top of each other”
“the george has this and our project before flynn flats as well we're doing suite by suite utility metering”
“so we build exclusively apartment buildings with some mixed use in them”
“fundamentally the most important thing is to align all the different parties that are involved”
// LESSONS FROM Paramount Management
Vertical integration (design + build + manage) forces you to own your mistakes and compounds learning across every subsequent project.
Bring in-house architectural detail capacity early; relying on craftsmen alone fails as the industry grows and labour thins.
A tri-frequency meeting cadence (daily, weekly 3-week look-ahead, bi-monthly PM) prevents last-minute resource scrambles with subcontractors.
Think of yourself as a facilitator of subcontractor expertise, not a controller — your job is to clear the path so they showcase their skills.
Stack approvals and construction phases in parallel; waiting for each step to finish before starting the next doubles timelines.
On major urban projects, budget 10+ years from initial concept to occupancy; the construction phase is a small fraction of the full project timeline.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
The Press Block
In progressProperty manager / leasing (Paramount welcomed the first residents from June 1, 2025; building leasing while final details complete as of 2026)
Developed by Dexel/Lawen Group since 2019. Occupancy permits for the first four residential floors obtained; Paramount Management is the named property manager (also confirmed by Paramount's own 'Press Block Now Leasing' Facebook post). Construction reported completed by late 2025 with units still leasing into 2026, so marked in_progress (lease-up), not fully completed.
Vertu Suites
CompletedProperty manager (Lawen Group / Dexel portfolio building managed by Paramount)
Developed by Dexel (Lawen Group development arm) and completed in 2012. Paramount manages the Lawen Group property portfolio; building-specific Paramount attribution is inferred from the portfolio-wide first-party statement rather than a building-specific page.
Vic Suites
CompletedProperty manager (Lawen Group / Dexel portfolio building managed by Paramount) · $15 million (development cost, per The Globe and Mail)
Developed by Dexel; won a 2011 Lieutenant Governor's Design Award (Architecture Citation) and IPOANS Multi-unit Development of the Year (2012). One of Halifax's oldest houses on the site was moved and restored rather than demolished. Paramount management attribution inferred from the portfolio-wide statement; the $15M figure is the development cost reported by The Globe and Mail, not a Paramount contract value.
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
Paramount Management is the property-management division of the Lawen Group, a family-owned Halifax firm operating since 1972, and works in tandem with the group's design-build development arm, Dexel, from preliminary design through building commissioning and occupancy.
SOURCE ▸The Lawen Group portfolio that Paramount manages comprises over 2,000 residential units and 300,000 square feet of commercial retail and office space throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality.
SOURCE ▸Paramount Management's head office is at 1245 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3J 1Y2 (shared with the Lawen Group).
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