The BMI Group
John Veldman is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in various leadership roles across multiple industries. Currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Investinbetter since March 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer at Courtland Landscape and Grounds since April 2001, John has demonstrated expertise in grounds maintenance, landscaping, and excavation services. Additionally, John is a Partner at Velox Wireless, a wireless internet service provider, and has held key positions in project coordination at Riversedge Developments Inc and as a shareholder at Blueforest Ventures Inc, focusing on environmental projects. Further contributions include co-founding TerraVox Group, a green energy company, and earlier roles at Flooring Canada. John holds a student pilot license from St. Thomas Flight School and a Mavo diploma from Jacobus Fruytier School.
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The BMI Group
WHO WE ARE: The BMI Group is an award-winning transformative real estate development company focused on reimagining, remediating, and redeveloping legacy properties. Our expertise transforms strategic properties into new industrial, commercial, residential, and hospitality opportunities. OUR IMPACT: Our Ready Stating process has brought upwards of 3 million sqft. of infrastructure back online and over 5,000 acres back into use. In 2023, we received the National Brownfield Rehabilitation Award for our work in Thorold, Ontario, in the "Development at the Community Scale" category, given to organizations transforming underutilized properties across Canada into thriving community assets. In 2019, Heritage Stratford presented BMI with the James Anderson Award for our work on the Bradshaw Lofts. OUR EXPERTISE: 1. Adaptive and restorative development: BMI is recognized for expertly remediating and repurposing historic structures for novel uses, combining heritage architecture and modern amenities for commercial, residential and hospitality industries. 2. Industrial repurposing and development: Our method involves strategically realigning existing industry-specific assets, systems, and facilities to serve new market and community needs, building out necessary components such as multi-modal infrastructure to support complex projects. OUR GROUPS: - BMI Developments engages in broad-spectrum project development that applies our ready-stating and property revitalization capabilities to new growth opportunities. - BMI Ventures incubates businesses that can best realize the potential of our properties, focusing on thriving communities, revitalized spaces, and economic growth.