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Where the approach takes shape.

Real estate work becomes tangible through decisions: what to pursue, what to change, who needs to be involved and what must be established before the next commitment.

Our work brings those questions together. We connect the commercial objective with the property, the building approach and the specialist contributions needed to move a project forward.

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Tracked developments across Halifax are on the map.

Developments

Four projects across Nova Scotia

  1. Green Street 138 units Lunenburg
  2. Colchester Duplexes 126 units Colchester County
  3. Thomas Road 76 units Digby
  4. Tower Road 12 units Halifax

These projects were taken on under Helio’s earlier development model.

Programmes · as of October 2026

The programmes’ projects, on the record’s numbers.

One building per programme with a project on the record: a six and an eight on single ER-3 lots, and a template eight an organisation could own. Each figure carries its grade and its day.

Nothing on this page is a promise of rent, value or return.

ER-301

Two ER-3 buildings on the municipal record

  1. 80 Cannon Terrace, Dartmouth469 m² · six units · permit BPRES-2025-13725, issued 6 November 2025 · finished spring of 2026 · sold June 2026
  2. 46 Primrose Street, Dartmouth1,273 m² · eight units · permit BPRES-2026-06370, filed 15 June 2026, issued · rising, expected before the year is out
  3. Built bythe programme’s builder, on its own designs, with its own crews

Where to check: each permit on HRM’s record, by its number · the deeds on the provincial register. measured As of 15 October 2026.

The record, and the walk through the six
Organisations02

The template eight, for an organisation

  1. The buildingeight units on a 600 m² lot, the builder’s template
  2. Everything in$2,417,056, on a $600,000 lot
  3. The insured loan$2,119,713 over 50 years at 100 points under MLI Select
  4. The affordable unitsat $1,248 a month, CMHC’s affordable rent as of 12 October 2026
  5. The grantsset by the analysis, programme by programme

The engine’s worked case on the calculator’s table; the fee is off the card. inferred As of 15 October 2026.

A building your organisation could own

Understanding the contribution

A project is more than its final image.

The useful story includes its starting point, the alternatives considered and the decisions that shaped it.

We present our work through that lens: the objective, Helio’s role, the contribution of the owner and other parties, and the stage reached. Progress belongs alongside the questions still being resolved. An early design, an agreed scope and a completed building represent different kinds of evidence. The counterparty relationships behind that work — development capital and asset acquisitions — are set out separately.

  1. the objective
  2. Helio’s role
  3. the contribution of the owner and other parties
  4. the stage reached

Developments

Developments across Nova Scotia.

These projects were taken on under Helio’s earlier development model. The work they show — connecting the site, the building, the economics and the delivery arrangements — is the work the current approach is built around.

A selection of that multifamily work — from coastal towns to the Halifax peninsula. Every active project is tracked on the map of every development in Halifax.

Green Street, Lunenburg
Pre-Construction

Green Street

Lunenburg 138 units

Colchester Duplexes, Colchester County
Pre-Construction

Colchester Duplexes

Colchester County 126 units

Thomas Road, Digby
Pre-Construction

Thomas Road

Digby 76 units

Tower Road, Halifax
Under Construction

Tower Road

Halifax 12 units

Work that informs what comes next

The project remains specific. The capability can become reusable.

Project experience also informs the methods and technology we develop. A recurring problem may reveal a better way to connect information, evaluate alternatives or coordinate decisions.

The aim is to retain that learning for future work without treating different sites, owners or delivery arrangements as interchangeable.

  1. connect information
  2. evaluate alternatives
  3. coordinate decisions

Explore the wider approach

How the work connects.

Our approach explains how engagements are structured. Our technology work explains the systems we are developing around recurring problems. Public research and tools provide another way to examine part of that work directly.