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Southwest Properties
Halifax-based real estate developer, owner and operator of high-quality apartments, condominiums, retail and commercial space, with a portfolio of more than 1,860 rental apartments and condos concentrated in downtown and waterfront Halifax. It develops and manages mixed-use buildings across the apartment, condo, retail, office and hospitality sectors.
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Cunard Residences
CompletedDeveloper / owner-operator
16-storey, 231 rental units on the Halifax waterfront; contributes ~two acres of new public space (managed by Build Nova Scotia); targeting LEED Gold. Build NS lists completion as October 2024. Named 2025 Development of the Year - High Rise by RHPNS.
Fortuna on Lucknow
In progressDeveloper
174-suite rental residence, studios to three-bedroom. Official groundbreaking December 16, 2025; expected occupancy 2028. Status confirmed in-progress as of the company's Dec 17, 2025 corporate news post. Address listed as 1035 Lucknow on the project site (a Southwest Developments Facebook post says 1055 Lucknow - minor discrepancy, see notes).
Maple
CompletedDeveloper / owner-operator
Won Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations' national Rental Development of the Year 2018; achieved LEED Silver (New Construction) certification in 2022.
Curve at South Park
CompletedDeveloper / owner-operator
Part of the South Park development. Won CFAA National Rental Development of the Year 2020 and IPOANS Development of the Year 2020; LEED Gold certified 2023.
Bishop's Landing
CompletedDeveloper / owner-operator
Southwest's first mixed-use multi-unit building on the Halifax waterfront (2003); 151 waterfront units. Bishop's Landing is a Southwest Properties-operated property (bishopslanding.com is a Southwest-controlled site).
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Cunard Residences was named 2025 Development of the Year - High Rise by the Rental Housing Providers of Nova Scotia (RHPNS).
SOURCE ▸Maple won the Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations' national Rental Development of the Year 2018.
SOURCE ▸The company operates more than 1,860 quality apartments and condos for rent in Halifax.
SOURCE ▸Founder Simon Spatz immigrated to Halifax in 1950 and built the business from a single Tobin Street apartment building, renaming it Southwest Apartments in the late 1960s; son Jim Spatz joined in 1988 and led its expansion into a diversified regional developer.
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