In Winnipeg, the company is now mostly working on renovating and maintaining their existing portfolio. Before making the move to Calgary, however, they did recently complete a 10-storey mixed-use project at 127 Bannatyne Avenue. That project was designed by AtLRG Architecture and was developed in partnership with Concord Projects. The story of that project began with Alston Properties purchasing the passport office building at 433 Main Street from Canada Life. That purchase also included the parking lot directly behind the passport office, which was located at 170 Bannatyne. Canada Life also owned another nearby parking lot, at 127 Bannatyne, and they ended up including that in the sale. From there, Nolan Ploegman, the CEO of Concord Projects, reached out and informed Bryce that he had long been interested in developing a building on that second parking lot. After talking it through, they agreed to team up and co-develop a project. Together, they came up with the concept for a mixed-use building that included: ground floor retail; a second floor office for Concord Projects; and then 80 residential units on floors three through 10. They settled AtLRG as the architect because Bryce had a strong and longstanding relationship with the principals, and he knew they could handle a challenge, which that project presented. “It was a controversial project because that site is in the Exchange District National Historic Site,” Bryce explains. “There was some sensitivity around new construction within that district, and we were pushing the density a little bit because we had to MARCH 2026
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