With another year comes a further allocation of investment funds looking for quality real estate in each of the major centres across Canada. Two leading investment brokerage specialists will discuss significant local and national trades in 2004, and share their insights on what product types investors want, their return expectations, and how these factors will shape the trends of the various groups in 2005.

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Join your NAIOP collegues on an enlightened journey exploring the office, industrial and retail opportunities in Vancouver, the North Shore, Burnaby, and East Richmond, including projects recently completed, buildings under construction, and future planned developments in these sub markets.

The Tour begins and finishes at Bentall 5 at 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C.

Date: September 13th, 2005

Location: Mayfair Lakes Golf Course

- Check-in: 11:30 am

- Tee Off: 12:30 pm

- Format: Shotgun Start/Best Ball

- Social Hour: 5:30 p.m. (with dinner to follow)

- Golf & Door Prizes Awarded at Dinner

Golf and Dinner

Members $225.00 (includes GST)

Dinner Only $ 60.00(includes GST)

Join your NAIOP collegues on an enlightened journey exploring the office, industrial and retail opportunities in Vancouver, the North Shore, Burnaby, and East Richmond, including projects recently completed, buildings under construction, and future planned developments in these sub markets.

The Tour begins and finishes at Bentall 5 at 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C.

In keeping with NAIOP's tradition of hosting a December breakfast program that helps us all think of the bigger picture, and allows guests outside the real estate profession to provide insight and motivation helpful in our daily lives. In this case, Bob Ackles will tells us a bit about the BC Lions and their rise in prominance within our community. Hear him speak about the organization its marketing growth, and feedback on the teams resent successes and failures.

Partial proceeds from this breakfast will benefit BC Lions Charities of choice.

With another year comes a further allocation of investment funds looking for quality real estate in each of the major centres across Canada. Two leading investment brokerage specialists will discuss significant local and national trades in 2004, and share their insights on what product types investors want, their return expectations, and how these factors will shape the trends of the various groups in 2005.

Guest Speakers:

Admission price ($20.00 for Members, $40.00 for Non-Members)includes complimentary fare and 1 beverage ticket

British Columbia is in the middle of a Construction boom with over $60 Billion in developments in its major projects inventory. This volume of demand can't be administered strictly through the public sector process, requiring the expertise of many industry disciplines, and capital from a variety of sources, to achieve its goals.

The B.C. government has successfully employed the P3 model on a number of significant public infrastructure development and renewal projects already, and plans to employ this for the future. Opportunities abound, so come find out how you can personally benefit from this business friendly approach to government initiated development, and appreciate their motivations behind taking this creative approach to its success.

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NAIOP Vancouver Chapter is very pleased to extend an invitation to its Members, Platinum, Gold and Patron Sponsors and their employees, in sincere appreciation for their ongoing dedication and support of our association.

British Columbia's future economic outlook appears bright for the foreseeable future, firing on all cylinders and benefiting many business sectors of our market.

What with expanding demand for our port facilities, a continued construction boom, healthy commodities prices, government's capital investment in local infrastructure, and the run up to the 2010 Winter Games, our province should remain one of the countries bright lights for years to come.

Join us to hear what Helmut Pastrick, Chief Economist of Credit Union Central of British Columbia has to say about the impact today's economic facts and figures will have on our market, and understand how such drivers as future interest rates, commodity prices and the dollar impact our provincial outlook, plus what effect this will have on our local commercial real estate sector. Always an insightful presentation, we look forward to your attendance.

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With economic growth comes upgrades to our transporation infrastructure. Our government has now committed $600 million dollars to the Lower Mainland's road network, through their Gateway Project thus adding to Translinks overall strategy of road impovements. Combine this with expansions at all of our local ports, Vancouver continues its progress in fostering future prosperity in the movement of goods and services and the people of this region.

Join us for presentations by the Provincial Government's Gateway Project, empowered to complete road improvements and the Port of Vancouver to highlight what these initiatives will do to enhance both of these vaulable links to our economy.

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Time: 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005

Admission: $20.00 for Members

(includes complimentary fare and 1 beverage ticket)

As a member of perhaps one of Vancouver's most volatile city councils in memory, our speaker brings with him, excellent insight into the Lower Mainlands's most influential district. Their decisions on a variety of business, development, social and taxation related issued widely varies, impacting many things that affect our local real estate community.

Come listen to conversation on a wide range of topics, including downtown's development moratorium, the False Creek Flats, and views on the complexion of Vancouver's next city council and maybe even a mayoral prediction.

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