- Business
- SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust (SRU-UN.TO) owns and manages a diversified portfolio of income-producing properties across Canada, including 155 retail properties, 4 office properties, 14 self-storage facilities, 3 residential properties and 1 industrial property totaling 35.6 million square feet of gross leasable area with 98.6% in-place and committed occupancy; it also pursues mixed-use intensification developments encompassing rental apartments, condominiums, townhomes, seniors' residences, hotels, office spaces and additional self-storage on 3,500 acres of owned land in every province. The Trust, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, anchors most retail centres with Walmart supercentres, serving value-oriented retail tenants, commercial businesses, residential customers and self-storage users nationwide. Its properties generate rentals from investment properties, self-storage operations, residential leases and sales from condominium and townhome closings. In 2025, SmartCentres opened three new self-storage facilities in Toronto and Dorval, Quebec, bringing the total to 14 operating sites with more under construction in Quebec and British Columbia slated for 2026-2027; it advanced construction on the ArtWalk condo Tower A in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre with 93% of 340 units pre-sold, Phase I Vaughan NW townhomes where 111 of 120 units closed and a flagship 200,000 square foot Canadian Tire store in Toronto for Q2 2026 delivery. The Trust secured a $160 million mortgage with its self-storage joint venture on October 31, 2025 at 3.87% fixed for five years to refinance maturing debt, obtained a $188.8 million CMHC-insured mortgage on the Millway rental development on October 24, 2025 at 3.45% maturing 2030 and closed $500 million in Series AC and AD unsecured debentures on November 12, 2025 at 3.599% and 4.318% to repay maturing Series X debentures and support general purposes.