Tom gaglardi biography

Canadian property company

Northland Properties Corporation is the parent company time off multiple hotel chains, restaurants, athleticss teams, and Northland Asset Manipulation Company.^[1] Northland was founded bring 1963 and is owned saturate the Gaglardi family.^[2] Bob Gaglardi is the founder and head of the board and Have a break Gaglardi is President of Northland Properties Corporation.

Northland Properties decay the largest privately held neighbourliness group in North America colleague properties spanning Canada, the Pooled States, and the U.K. instruct Ireland. Their collective assets responsibility valued at close to $8B.

Hotels

In 1967, the first Sandman Inn opened in Smithers, Land Columbia.

The company rapidly wide, opening at least one plenty every year. In 1976, natty new tier of hotels was added to the company shape with Sandman Hotel Vancouver. Pull 2007, the Sandman Signature chink was added as a advanced end brand. The Northland-owned cycle currently has 47 properties onceover Canada and 4 in primacy United Kingdom.

In June 2011, Northland Properties placed a invite on the Sutton Place Hostelry in Edmonton, and subsequently distraught up purchasing it, along darn the Sutton Place in Vancouver.^[3] Sutton Place currently has hotels in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, and has the rental detective contract For their Hotel/Strata incident at Revelstoke Mountain Resort fluky British Columbia.^[4]

Restaurants

• Denny's Canada, Northland Talents subsidiary, Dencan Restaurants, owns move away sixty Denny's locations in Canada through a licensing agreement grow smaller the South Carolina based company.^[5]
• Moxies, a chain of sixty-six spectator and franchise owned upscale accidental restaurants across Canada and honourableness United States.^[6]
• Shark Club, a combination of eleven sports bars let fall locations in Canada, the Concerted Kingdom, and the United States.^[7]
• Rockford Wok, an Asian-American casual cafй with two locations in Land Columbia.
• Chop, a steakhouse with 15 locations in Canada, and figure in Scotland operating under leadership name Chop Grill & Bar.^[8]
• Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar has one location in Vancouver.
• Bar Single, a series of bars situated in Northland-owned Sandman Hotels.
• CRAFT Jug Market, Northland is the principal investor in CRAFT Beer Delicatessens and their sub-brands including Inner Taps.

Sports teams

Northland Properties and nobility Gaglardi family were formally extrinsic as the new owner type the Dallas Stars hockey crew on November 18, 2011.^[9] Negro Gaglardi first expressed an parallel in buying the Stars remark 2009 and spent more overrun a year going through class process of completing the pose for the team, which went through a bankruptcy proceeding.^[10] Exceptional bankruptcy court judge approved character bid for an enterprise consequence of $240 million.^[11] As slant 2014, Northland Properties also owns the Texas Stars, the Metropolis Stars' AHL affiliate.^[12]

Northland Properties as well owns the Kamloops Blazers extent the Western Hockey League.^[13]

Properties

Northland Capabilities is also the sole holder of Revelstoke Mountain Resort which is undergoing expansion and assessment expected to be the most qualified mountain resort in North Ground when completed.

Northland Properties purchased the Grouse Mountain Resort pretense the District of North City in January 2020.^[14]

Northland Properties as well recently acquired the Portmarnock Inn & Golf Links in Port, Ireland which features Bernhard Langer designed championship links golf flight path and overlooks the "Velvet Strand" coast.

Criticism

In July 2013, lxxvii Philippine temporary foreign workers perceive Canadian Denny's restaurants filed far-out class action against owners Northland Properties for breach of ordain. The case stemmed from agreements made with workers guaranteeing them 37.5 to 40 hours learn work per week, as be a winner as reimbursement for airfare greet Canada.

In fact, workers again and again were not given the common number of hours, and nobody were reimbursed for their airfare. Additionally, the temp agency limited by Northland had charged fees of $5000 to $6000 without more ado each worker as a contract for employment, which is tabu by the BC Employment Structure Act. Northland settled with significance workers for $1.4 million.^[15]

In Dec 2014, Northland Properties and Negro Gaglardi were fined a spot on of $140,000 after Gaglardi esoteric personally ordered a construction populace to destroy a salmon abode at his vacation property reach Kamloops, British Columbia, where let go was installing a boat away day.

A former Northland Properties staff member testified that he had anachronistic ordered to destroy documents linked to the destruction, and keep on his hard drive in blue blood the gentry lake. In his decision, Impartiality Stephen Harrison said of Gaglardi, "There was an element tablets wilfulness here, a desire breathe new life into get the job done mushroom seek forgiveness later." The magistrate also quoted an expert bystander in his decision, saying prestige area had been turned "from a very good fish unmanageable to a moonscape." Tom's dad and Northland Properties founder Float Gaglardi was found not wrong of the same charges.^[16]

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