GEC (Global Education City) is the largest student housing community in Metro Vancouver, with a portfolio and development budget exceeding C$1.5 billion. Currently hosting students at four locations with seven buildings fully operational, ten additional buildings at development phase to be completed by 2025.
GEC services out-of-province and international students, provides them with cost-effective and comfortable off-campus housing solutions. With flexible leases, fully furnished suites, and all-inclusive amenities, GEC offers better value than most university residences and private rentals.
GEC properties are strategically located at Downtown Vancouver (GEC Viva and GEC Granville), Cambie Corridor along the Canada Line SkyTrain system (GEC Pearson, GEC Marine Gateway), and Burnaby Heights (GEC Burnaby Heights) which is minutes away from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Institute of Technology and Capilano University.
Student Housing Market
Summary: 10 Projects, 15 Buildings, 7 operational, 9 under construction & development.
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March 14, 2022 Newsletter Welcome to the Neighborhood We are opening our newsletter by welcoming our new Marketing team member, Lawrence! We are excited for you all to meet Lawrence in person during our events, but for now, you can scroll down below and read more about him. Before we let you go, check out these […]
Vancouver, B.C., April 13th, 2022 – CIBT Education Group Inc. (TSX: MBA, OTCQX International: MBAIF) (“CIBT” or the “Company“) is pleased to report that it has filed on SEDAR its consolidated financial statements and related management’s discussion and analysis for its second quarter of fiscal 2022 ended February 28, 2022 (collectively, the “Q2 Filing“). The following […]
March 17, 2022: CIBT Education Group Inc. (TSX:MBA, OTCQX International: MBAIF) (“CIBT”) reports that it has received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) to commence a normal course issuer bid (“NCIB”) to purchase up to 3,423,000 of its common shares, representing approximately 4.999% of the 68,460,740 common shares which were issued and outstanding […]
February 23, 2022 Stockhouse Media Editorial While many businesses have struggled during COVID-19 and now the Omicron variant, there have been some that have prospered, and even increased their business. Vancouver-based, CIBT Education Group Inc. (MBA) (TSX.MBA, OTCQX: MBAIF) is one of those companies. CIBT has been in business since 1994 and is one of the largest […]
Vancouver, B.C., January 14th, 2022 – CIBT Education Group Inc. (TSX: MBA, OTCQX International: MBAIF) (“CIBT” or the “Company“) is pleased to report that it has filed on SEDAR its consolidated financial statements and related management’s discussion and analysis for its first quarter of fiscal 2022 (“F2022”) ended November 30, 2021 (collectively, the “Q1 Filing“). The […]