3 Aquilini Family

AQUILINI INVESTMENT GROUP ¨AIG© PREVIOUSLY # 6, 2017 It’s been a mixed year for B.C.’S power family. On the one hand, this summer’s dismissal of hockey icon Trevor Linden as president of the Vancouver Canucks (a team they’ve owned wholly since 2006) has cast a pall over the most love-hated sports team in the city. On the other hand, the Aquilinis continue to make smart strategic hires for the rest of their conglomerate—including, this past July, luring top city bureaucrat Bill Aujla, general manager of Vancouver’s real estate and facilities department, to run AIG’S real estate arm. AIG, with a 25-percent stake in both the Jericho and Heather Street Lands (a combined 100-plus acres), has also become the favoured partner of First Nations developers Mst—one of the few builders adding density in the heart of Vancouver.