// COMPANY DOSSIER
Westwood Developments Ltd.
Halifax-based, family-owned real estate developer and property manager that designs, builds, leases, and manages its own residential, mixed-use, and commercial properties. Operates an integrated in-house development and property-management model focused on the Halifax market.
📍 Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaEst. 1989✓ 100% first-party verified
// LESSONS FROM Westwood Developments Ltd.
Buying a supplier business you previously bought from gives you instant empathy for their operational juggling act — and lets you course-correct your own demanding-contractor habits.
Equipment rental (vacuum lifters, roller tampers) bridges the capital gap for smaller landscape contractors and converts renters into buyers once volume justifies it.
For large-format pavers, always incorporate equipment rental costs into your labor estimate as a direct variable cost; the per-job math often beats back injury and lost productivity.
Winning commercial masonry/landscape work requires getting specified by the architect or landscape architect early — before the project goes to tender — or the product gets value-engineered out.
On large commercial deliveries, direct ship from manufacturer to site removes the need to stage at your yard — cutting double-handling cost and space constraints.
Never substitute an unqualified installer for a mason on veneer or brick work — failed jobs create expensive remediation calls and destroy the subcontractor relationship.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Richmond Yards
In progressDeveloper / owner-operator
Halifax Examiner (re-fetched, content confirmed): five towers (30, 13, 12, 10 and 8 storeys) plus 8 townhouses, 620 residential units and 4,950 sq m commercial over a 550-space underground garage; development agreement approved by Halifax & West Community Council on April 27, 2021, with construction already underway (garage begun the prior year; application originated 2016). Freshness re-check (2026): the lead 30-storey tower is occupied and multiple addresses (2755 King St, 6070 Almon St) are 'Now leasing' per first-party richmondyards.com and the Jan 18 2026 westwoodgroup.ca news post, with retail/amenities still opening — marked in_progress, not complete.
The Mills (The Mills Residences)
In progressCo-developer (joint venture with The Micco Group / MICCO Companies) · estimated ~CAD $100 million (reported)
Eight-storey mixed-use on the demolished Mills Brothers department-store site; built as an explicit joint venture between Westwood Developments and The Micco Group (owned by brothers Mickey and Colin Macdonald) per Chronicle Herald / RHPNS primary press — Westwood is co-developer, not sole. First-party site states 217 suites; the original 2020 plan was ~180 suites; later reporting cited ~216 — see unverified_notes for the drift. Live first-party property page lists it as 'Now leasing' (active lease-up); original target completion was Q1 2024, so marked in_progress rather than fully complete. The ~$100M figure is a reported estimate, not audited.
The Doyle (The Doyle Residences)
CompletedDeveloper / owner-operator
Listed as a Westwood-developed leasing property on the company's own /residential page (HTTP 200). Signal Halifax (Oct 2015) described the same downtown corner (Queen / Brunswick / Spring Garden / Doyle Street, opposite the new Central Library) as a seven-storey mixed-use build with ground-level commercial, construction starting Oct 2015 and opening mid-2018 — but did NOT use the name 'The Doyle' or '1511 Queen Street.' Completed and actively leasing as of 2026; exact handover month not pinned ('2018' from reporting).
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
Westwood describes itself as a Halifax-based, family-owned developer and property manager with more than 30 years of experience and an integrated model: it designs, builds, leases, and manages its own properties.
SOURCE ▸Westwood Developments is owned by Halifax developer Danny Chedrawe and his partner Mounir Haddad; The Mills, on the former Mills Brothers site, is a joint venture with The Micco Group (owned by brothers Mickey and Colin Macdonald) — a reported ~$100-million mixed-use project.
SOURCE ▸Westwood's residential arm has developed roughly two thousand rental units in Nova Scotia over about 35 years, per the company's Richmond Yards project site.
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