Partnerships
Aligning capital of all types
Starting with Dockside Green, our first development initiated in 2003, Windmill has been successful in aligning not just financial capital, but capital of all types – intellectual, social, environmental and technological – to create precedent-setting partnerships and projects.
We are grateful to Bioregional for their pioneering work on BedZed, the UK’s first major zero carbon community. From that project, One Planet Living emerged, both as a vision for living within the finite resources of our planet, and an innovative framework to realize that vision.
Without One Planet Living’s openly shared purpose, principles and processes, it would not have been possible for us to conceive of, let alone deliver on, ground-breaking developments like Ottawa’s Zibi or Guelph’s Baker District.
Foundational
partnerships
Amplifying
our impact
By forging partnerships with others, we continue to evolve our thinking about what it means to create impact in the development sector.
These foundational partnerships – with Bioregional/One Planet Living, with Epic Investment Services for the One Planet Living Fund, with our advisory arm Urban Equation – help us amplify and accelerate the impact of our work the world over.
Cross-sector partnerships
Acting as
connectors and
co-creators
We’ve long recognized that our projects have the greatest impact when we act as connectors and co-creators, generously engaging in cross-sector, collaborative partnerships.
For example:
- Cathedral Hill: The $200M private development components were provided through an innovative long-term lease arrangement with Ottawa’s Anglican Church. The development supports the church’s social mission and ensures the Anglican Cathedral’s long term viability.
- Korean Church: Proceeds from this 200,000 sq. ft. redevelopment of the Korean Church’s current location in Centretown, Ottawa will help fund a new community church in a location that better serves its congregation.
- Parkway House: Redevelopment of Parkway House’s current site into a 400,000 sq. ft. vibrant, high-density, mixed-use project will include a new, modern facility of this longterm care home for severely disabled adults.
- Baker District: The private component of this large, $300M mixed-use development will help offset the cost of the public facilities. These include two urban parks, public parking, and a new central library which the City of Guelph had been working to build for years with the limited resources of a mid-sized city.