By Evan Duggan

There’s a familiar sports cliché Daniel Fournier likes to use when describing his vision for Ivanhoe Cambridge in his role as the massive commercial real estate investment firm’s chairman and CEO.

“Go big or go home,” Fournier says more than once during Wednesday’s interview in a seventh-floor suite of the 75-year-old Fairmont Hotel Vancouver — a masterpiece Ivanhoe Cambridge is currently shopping as part of an ongoing shift toward tightening its grasp on high-profile shopping centres and office tower buildings.

Fournier would repeat the phrase again downstairs in a keynote address to the Vancouver Board of Trade. He comes by the sports lingo honestly. Fournier, who took over the multi-billion dollar reins of Ivanhoe Cambridge in 2010, took a break from his studies at Oxford in 1977 to play a season for the CFL’s Ottawa Rough Riders.

Fournier said he came to the West Coast partly to say “thank you to Vancouver, because we’ve done very, very well here,” but also to share insight on how he plans to transform Ivanhoe Cambridge from a real estate investment machine with $40 billion in assets, into a $70-billion behemoth.

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Source:: RENX