Minto fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101318
- Collection
- Minto fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 book; textual records
- Fonds No.
- B0011
- Date
- 2005 - 2011
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of a book entitled "Minto: A tradition of Family Values: The First Fifty Years" by Wayne Skene, 2005; an article from the Ottawa Business Journal from November 29, 2010 entitled "Minto expands Florida footprint"; an article from the Ottawa Citizen from July 2, 2011 entitled "A hint o…
- Collection
- Minto fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 book; textual records
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of a book entitled "Minto: A tradition of Family Values: The First Fifty Years" by Wayne Skene, 2005; an article from the Ottawa Business Journal from November 29, 2010 entitled "Minto expands Florida footprint"; an article from the Ottawa Citizen from July 2, 2011 entitled "A hint of the past in a new future," which discusses the update and reinvention of Minto homes in the Bayshore area of Ottawa; a flyer for "The Emperor of Atlantis" a one act opera that was written by Viktor Ullman, with a libretto by Petr Kien, in the Theresienstadt concentration camp around 1943. The opera was sponsored by Minto in October, year unknown.
- Date
- 2005 - 2011
- Fonds No.
- B0011
- Storage Location
- A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes
- History / Biographical
- The foundations of The Minto Group were laid in 1955 when four Ottawa brothers, Louis, Gilbert, Irving, and Lorry Greenberg, joined together to start a family owned real estate construction company called Mercury Homes. Before long, the sons of Roger and Rose Greenberg began building homes on different sites concurrently. To speed up the construction process, they developed an assembly line approach that was visionary for the times. Before long, the brothers had purchased their own mill, becoming the first builders in the Ottawa region to produce their own woodwork. In 1957, the company name was changed to Minto. Within three years, Minto was starting construction on seven quality houses a day with a 72-day completion schedulel; an unmatched standard for the time. Always a leader in design and construction excellence, Minto received the first of a long list of honours in 1962, when it won both national and regional awards in the Canadian Housing Design Council competition. By 1965, Minto had built more than 5,000 homes in Ottawa and was well on its way to becoming the region’s largest private landlord. In 1969, Minto introduced a new form of home ownership to Canada, the condominium, and built the first of many high-rise condominium projects in the Ottawa area. In the late 1970’s, Minto diversified its holdings and took a tremendous leap forward by expanding into Florida, where the company built almost 17,000 single family homes, condominiums, and rental units in Broward and Palm Beach counties. By 1986, Minto established a toe-hold in Toronto with the construction of Optima on the Park, a luxury condominium project in Scarborough. Two year later, Minto completed a second project, Minto Plaza, in Toronto's downtown, and was well on its way to becoming a leading area developer with an expanded portfolio of single family homes and high-rise projects. Meanwhile in downtown Ottawa, Minto transformed an empty parking lot into Minto Place; a city block size development consisting of two office towers, a 417 unit suite hotel and a two-level retail concourse. Minto Suite Hotel was a huge success and recipient of a CAA/AAA Four Diamond Rating. During this time, Minto made its first foray into green building, developing the prototype Innova House to showcase state-of-the-art technologies such as solar-generated electricity. The project eventually led to new and innovative approaches in construction so that by the mid 1990’s Minto was one of Canada’s largest home builders to offer R-2000 homes. Five decades after building its first home, Minto has grown into an integrated real estate development, construction and management company with operations in Ottawa, Toronto and Florida. To date, The Minto Group has built more than 67,000 new homes, manages more than 15,000 residential rental homes and apartments, and carries a commercial portfolio of more than 2.5 million square feet of office, retail and industrial space.
- Related Material
- Greenberg Family fonds.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
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