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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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// DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW
EP 12 How Halifax's Dexel Developments Builds Landmark Apartme…
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Dexel Developments Limited / Dexel Architecture
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Dexel's sister company manages the completed properties; same ownership group
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// SELECTED PROJECTS
The Press Block
In progress
Mixed-use residential + commercial development (preserves the heritage Kenny-Dennis / Dennis (1863) and Acadian Recorder (1900) facades) · 1730 Granville Street (Barrington / George / Granville Streets), Downtown Halifax, NS · 2025
Property 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.
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Vertu Suites
Completed
Residential apartment building, 97 units (one/two/three-bedroom suites) · 1530 Birmingham Street, Halifax, NS · 2012
Property 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.
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Vic Suites
Completed
10-storey mixed-use (residential + commercial) development · Hollis & Morris Streets, Halifax, NS · 2011
Property 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.
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// KEY PEOPLE
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Louie Lawen
President & CEO, Lawen Group (P.Eng); co-founder of Paramount Management
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John Lawen
VP of Corporate Services & CAO, Lawen Group; co-founder of Paramount Management
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Jeremie Bourque
Accounting Manager, CPA (Lawen Group finance team for the Paramount portfolio)
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// 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.
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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.
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Paramount Management's head office is at 1245 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3J 1Y2 (shared with the Lawen Group).
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