This facility will be utilized for interior van parking only, (238 spaces). The HVAC system has been upgraded to detect and handle vehicle exhaust and the floor slab has been modified to resist road salt. With additional exterior van parking spaces, approximately 340 vans will eventually operate from DTY4.

- Design: Sheldon Siewnarine, Sandro Cerqua, Ivan Morson 

- Project Management: Kerry Horrigan 

- Site Superintendent: Ben Pirraglia, Austin Pay

Orlando successfully moved-in Amazon Fulfillment to the new building at 7850 Heritage Road, Brampton. This 382,000 square foot facility will serve as one of Amazon’s “mid-mile” sortation centres as they pursue further expansion of their growing business. Orlando provided a “turnkey” approach to Amazon’s fit up scope, coordinating tenant work through a multitude of unique challenges including installation of Amazon security and communication services, building automation, life safety for conveyor/material handling equipment, security guard house, and many site alterations to suit Amazon’s prototype layout. Orlando is also in the site plan approval stage of a parking expansion and driveway link over to Amazon’s neighbouring building at 7995 Winston Churchill Blvd, which will act as secondary access and overflow parking to the site.

Orlando team members involved with this project:

- Design: Jeremy Sguigna

- Project Management: David McKeown

- Site Superintendent: Anthony Mulvale

Construction at 1825 Reading for our Princess Auto Ltd. continues with site and building envelope work being finalized and slab on grade placement complete. Tenant Fit-up work has commenced with office, aerosol storage, and hazardous storage construction well underway. Tenant fit-up is expected to be completed well in advance of the Lease Occupancy date in part due to a detailed Lease Agreement and advanced planning by the Tenant. Site Superintendent, Renato Saluri, must be commended to an outstanding job on the first of four buildings on the Milton South site during challenging times. He has set the bar high for the three remaining buildings.

The retail team is excited to present the new brand and logo for HTC! Over the past few months, Orlando partnered with a reputable Canadian creative agency, Vanderbrand, to revamp the HTC brand and create a new and exciting identity for the shopping centre.

The new brand will be launched to the public in early November along side a new website.

Since the late spring and throughout the summer, the I.T. team has helped facilitate Orlando’s return to the office through the process of getting workstations ready and providing/configuring technology equipment for returning employees.  For many head office employees, this has included the conversion of laptops originally provided to connect to their office computers remotely to “permanent” laptops, in replacement of these desktop computers or virtual machines that they were using pre-pandemic. This initiative, together with the upgrade of our Wi-Fi network discussed in the spring edition of the newsletter, should help enable greater work efficiencies at Orlando going forward, allowing employees to stay connected to the network wirelessly while in meetings or otherwise away from their workstations.

The I.T. group would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the employees who provided feedback on their experience using technology at Orlando, either by participating in meetings facilitated by our external consulting partners (PwC) or by completing their technology survey. Significant insights were derived from the comments received, which have been very helpful in formulating our technology strategy going forward.

Orlando has a long history of supporting our community, and we are very happy to share that this tradition continues. With thanks to all of you, whose hard work and diligence makes this possible, we’d like to share some details about two very exciting gifts.

Commitment Amount: $5,000,000

Orlando has issued a matching challenge to Mackenzie Health for up to $5M to support the new Orlando Corporation Ambulatory Surgical & Procedures Centre at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital.

This Centre is necessary to support both Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital and Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital. Day surgery patients, outpatients and inpatients who require endoscopies, cystoscopies, gynecology, urology, ENT, gastrointestinal procedures or minor surgeries will be cared for in this new Centre.

In addition to refurbishing the Centre and increasing its size by 25%, this gift will help to purchase essential equipment and technology, including:

As of the end of September, Mackenzie Health has raised $3.1M from the community and are well on their way to raising the full $5M by the end of next year.

Commitment Amount: $3,500,000

In 2019 Orlando issued a $3.5M matching challenge to support the Darling Home for Kids’ capital campaign to build a bigger and better home-away-from-home for children with complex medical needs and their families.

As Canada’s only paediatric organization providing respite, residential and hospice services, The Darling Home for Kids is a unique home-like environment nested on 77 acres in the Niagara Escarpment, with many medical amenities found in a hospital. The organization focuses its service provision on children who require intensive nursing support on a daily basis for survival, with a healthcare team that includes nurses, personal support workers, social workers and physicians.

The Capital Campaign will finance the expansion of the home by 10,000 sq.ft. as well as the following projects: three new bedrooms with two adjoining bathrooms, larger medication room, multi-functional spaces, larger multi-sensory Snoezelen room, dedicated playroom, private kitchen and accommodation in palliative wing, dedicated staff and volunteer spaces, second story addition, driveway extension and larger parking lot, and garage addition.

As of August 2021, The Darling Home has secured $3,364,053.52 in gifts from the community, leaving them with only $135,946.48 to go!

Click here to view a short video tour of the home and their renovation plans.

Even though life has been very different these last 18 months, the needs in the healthcare system are constant. The FDC Foundation has been busy meeting with various charitable partners over the past 6 months and have made commitments totaling just over $27,000,000.

These gifts have supported capital re-development and equipment, medical research, medical student support and CNIB Guide dogs.

Here is a brief re-cap of FDC Foundation’s new commitments:

FDC Foundation has made gift commitments to six institutions to help with their re-development and equipment needs:

FDC Foundation has made five gift commitments to support medical research:

Finally, FDC Foundation has supported medical students at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and sponsored the care and training of guide dogs at CNIB.