Innovative People
Richard Glickman, FRI
President and Agency Executive Officer
Chartered Real Estate Broker
Richard has been in the real estate business for years. He attended McGill University and obtained his fellowship in the Real Estate Institute of Canada in 1980.
He served until 1984 as the President of Suisdev Inc., a real estate management company. While there, he created a joint venture in order to develop a 600,000-square-foot AAA office tower in the Montreal Central Business District now known as 600 de Maisonneuve West.
From 1984 until 2005 Richard served as the Executive Vice-President of Monit Management Ltd., a real estate organization with a portfolio of seven million square feet of office, industrial and commercial properties Richard was responsible for the development, leasing and management of Tour Scotia, a 350,000-square-foot AAA office tower in the downtown core, the redevelopment of several other core office buildings,and launched a stand-alone 80,000-square-foot executive conference centre, the first of its kind in Canada.
In 2005 Richard served as a Senior Vice President and Director of Jones Lang LaSalle until leaving to commence Colterra's operations in 2009.
Richard co-founded Colterra Capital Corporation in 2012. He sold his position to his partner in 2022. Richard remains as a General and Limited Partner in limited partnerships which own approximately 1,000,000 sq. ft. of strip community shopping centres across Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Virginia, in the United States.
Richard was a founding director of the Urban Development Institute, is a Fellow of the Real Estate Institute of Canada and a past director of several non-profit organizations.
His experience crosses all areas of real estate expertise including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, property and asset management, development of residential, commercial, office, industrial, conference and hotel projects, totalling over 22 million square feet of space.
