Real estate
activities.
We acquire, develop, lease, and hold commercial property across Alberta and adjacent Western Canadian markets — underwritten for long-term ownership, not for resale.
We buy buildings
we intend to keep.
Birchmont’s real estate platform starts where most operator-owned portfolios do: with the sites our own restaurants occupy. Controlling them removes the single largest uncontrollable cost in an operating business and gives us a second way to compound the same dollar.
We are building it out deliberately from there. The mandate extends beyond our own occupancy to commercial property for third-party tenants in the same markets — freestanding retail, pad sites, small-format commercial, and mixed-use assets in towns and secondary cities we know first-hand.
We are a long-hold owner. There is no fund clock and no disposition mandate, which means we can hold through a soft year and we can be patient on price. It also means we are honest about fit: if an asset only works on an aggressive exit assumption, we pass.
Four things we do with property.
Acquisition
Income-producing and value-add commercial property in markets we already operate in. We are a direct buyer with our own capital, so we can move without a financing contingency that drags for months.
Development
Land assembly, entitlement, servicing, and ground-up construction of pad sites and retail bays — including build-to-suit for our own restaurant platform and for outside tenants.
Leasing & asset management
Tenant sourcing, lease negotiation, renewals, capital planning, and day-to-day property management. We operate our buildings the way we operate our restaurants.
Structuring
Sale-leasebacks for owner-occupiers who want their capital back, joint ventures with local partners, and vendor-take-back financing where it is what lets a fair deal close.
What fits, plainly stated.
Brokers and owners get a decision quickly because we know what we are looking for.
Asset Types
Freestanding retail and QSR pads, small-format strip retail, single-tenant commercial, and mixed-use with a commercial main floor. Restaurant and food-service real estate is where we have the deepest edge.
Geography
Lethbridge and southern Alberta first, then Alberta’s secondary cities and adjacent Western Canadian markets. We buy where we can be on site the same day.
Deal Profile
Stabilised income or value-add with a clear path to lease-up. Off-market and succession situations welcome. Development land where the highest and best use is commercial.
A direct buyer, not a committee.
Bring us a listing and get a real answer.
Send the offering and we will tell you within a few days whether it is a fit and what we think it is worth. Decisions are made by the principals; there is no investment committee to wait on and commissions are respected.
Submit a property → For Owner-OccupiersUnlock the capital in your building.
If your operating business owns its real estate, a sale-leaseback can return that equity to the business while you stay in place on a long lease. We are a natural counterparty because we run operating businesses ourselves.
Discuss a sale-leaseback →Send us the deal.
Listings, off-market opportunities, development land, and sale-leaseback enquiries. We sign NDAs quickly and reply within one business day.