Greater Sudbury, Ontario
Two mining companies hold the ground that matters in Sudbury: Vale Base Metals runs six mines, a mill, a smelter complex and a refinery with more than 4,000 direct employees, and Glencore's Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations has been there since 1928 and spent $604 million on wages and operations in 2024 alone - while the retail and rental city belongs to a Toronto-listed REIT and two local families, and the biggest land fight of the last decade was over a developer's own parcel on The Kingsway.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 14 sources · 6 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Ontario keeps the official record of who owns what, and sells it one parcel at a time. ServiceOntario states that land registry services are only available online and that the register covers more than 7.4 million parcels; anyone can look a parcel up through OnLand, but a copy of the parcel register costs $37.10 including HST under the fee schedule effective 2 November 2026. There is no bulk ownership extract and no open assessment roll - MPAC's per-property values sit behind AboutMyProperty, propertyline and Municipal Connect, each requiring a login - and a sale price exists only on the registered transfer. In a city of 3,186 square kilometres, that means the only ownership picture that can be built for free is the one that the mining companies, the REITs and the council record publish themselves.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search$37.10 for a copy of a parcel register including the first page ($9.70 statutory + $24.25 ELRSA + $3.15 HST), effective 2 November 2026; $13.15 per adjacent parcel register search per PIN (Teraview only); $2.56 per additional page
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
- realtor.ca — “Realtor.ca's terms of use forbid reproducing, redistributing or systematically retrieving its listing data; the site also returns 403 to scripts. Not scraped, and no listing data from it appears in this record.”
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Cliff Smelter Complex and Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery Copper Cliff, Greater Sudbury, Ontario |
Industrial | Vale Base Metals Vale Base Metals' own operations page states that its Sudbury operations include one open-pit mine, five underground mines, a mill, a smelter and a refinery. The Copper Cliff Smelter Complex was commissioned in 1930 and converts nickel concentrate to a nickel matte, with its sulphur dioxide turned into sulphuric acid at an acid plant inside the complex; the Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery, commissioned in 1973, finishes the matte into high-purity nickel pellets and powders. Clarabelle Mill (1971) is the first processing stage. Over 4,000 direct employees and more than 1,000 contractors; mining here has run over 140 years, from Totten in 1883. No land area or asset value is published. |
Public company | —A |
| Sudbury Smelter, Strathcona Mill and Fraser Mine (Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations) Sudbury basin, Greater Sudbury, Ontario |
Industrial | Glencore Canada (Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations) Glencore's own Sudbury INO page: 'Sudbury, Ontario has been home to Glencore's Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (Sudbury INO) since 1928. These operations include exploration, one underground mine (Fraser Mine), Strathcona Mill and the Sudbury Smelter, which are all located in the Sudbury basin.' Strathcona Mill takes Fraser ore plus third-party custom feed; the smelter's nickel matte goes via Quebec City to Glencore's Nikkelverk refinery in Norway. Sudbury INO in 2024: two underground mines, one mill, one smelter, one mine project in development, 2,400 directly employed, $604 million in wages and operations spend, $290 million of capital investment. |
Public company | —A |
| New Sudbury Centre 1349 Lasalle Boulevard, Greater Sudbury, Ontario 487,262 sq ft on 39.1 acres |
Retail | Primaris Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: PMZ.UN) 100% share Primaris REIT's own asset list, in its Report to Unitholders for Q4 2025 (dated 11 February 2026), gives New Sudbury Centre at 1349 Lasalle Blvd as an enclosed centre held at a 100 per cent share: 487,262 sq ft of GLA on 39.1 site acres at 34 per cent coverage, 110 stores, 97.6 per cent in-place occupancy, BOMA Silver, all-store sales of $116.4 million and $811 per sq ft for the twelve months to 31 December 2025. Major tenants Walmart, Sport Chek, H&M, Shoppers Drug Mart. Tenth-largest in Primaris' 15.2 million sq ft portfolio by sales, and its only northern Ontario asset. The deck states 'Primaris owns and manages regional enclosed shopping centres'. No mortgage is recorded against it. |
REIT | —A |
| Stobie Open Pit Mine Greater Sudbury, Ontario |
Industrial | Vale Base Metals Among the oldest working ground in the city and the clearest example of a mining company's land being re-opened rather than redeveloped. Vale's own page: Stobie 'commenced production as an open pit nickel mine in 1890 before transitioning to underground mining in 1914 through 2017', and 'resumed operations as an open mine in 2024 in partnership with Thiess and two local Indigenous businesses: Z'Gamok Construction LP, and Aki-eh Dibinwewziwin Limited Partnership'. The partnership is operational; the page does not describe any transfer of land. |
Public company | —A |
| Elm Place (formerly Rainbow Centre) Elm Street, downtown Greater Sudbury, Ontario |
Retail | Vista Hospitality Ownership established as at November 2017 and not re-confirmed since. Northern Ontario Business, 7 November 2017, reporting the mall's bid to host the city's new library and art gallery: 'The retail location's owners, Vista Hospitality, issued a news release on Nov. 6, detailing why, in their view, the Rainbow Centre just makes the most sense' - reuse costing up to 70 per cent less than a new build. CTV News Northern Ontario, 15 July 2020, reported the downtown mall taking a new look and a new name 'with mixed reaction', but that page is a video item whose text does not state the new name. No later ownership document was opened and no floor area is published. |
Private company | —B |
| Kingsway Entertainment District lands The Kingsway, Greater Sudbury, Ontario |
Land | Zulich group of companies (Dario Zulich) The only large private land assembly in Sudbury the public record establishes outright, and it rests on a council decision rather than title. CBC News, 11 April 2018: council approved 'the rezoning application filed by developer Dario Zulich, who owns the land slated for development - the same site that would host the planned $100 million city-owned arena', with Gateway Casinos planning a $60-million complex there. Sudbury.com, 20 September 2022, calls him 'a key partner/land developer for the Kingsway Entertainment District... at a property on The Kingsway he owns', and records council rejecting the $215-million arena in July 2022. No holding company, acreage or price appears. |
Family / private | —A |
| Sudbury Community Arena Downtown Greater Sudbury, Ontario |
Civic | City of Greater Sudbury Sudbury.com, 20 September 2022, describes 'The 70-year-old Sudbury Community Arena... in the city's downtown core' and the choice facing the incoming council between 'a new, not refurbished, municipal arena' and 'a potential refurbishment of the existing downtown-based Sudbury Community Arena'. The arena is treated throughout as municipal; the article does not cite a title document, so the entry is tier B on the municipal characterisation rather than on a register. |
Government | —B |
| Dalron Construction head office 130 Elm Street, Sudbury, Ontario |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it Ontario's builder regulator records Dalron Construction Limited at 130 Elm Street, Sudbury, licensed continuously since 5 August 1976 - the oldest and largest home-building licence in the city, with 303 possessions over 2016-2026. Dalron's own site describes it as 'Building communities since 1969' and lists its own apartment, condominium and townhome rentals and four neighbourhoods (New Sudbury, Villages of Montrose, Southend, Moonglo). The directory gives the licence address, not title, so no owner is entered for the building itself. |
Not established | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
No assessed value for any Sudbury parcel is public: MPAC's per-property values sit behind three separate logins. What the public record gives instead is the geography - Sudbury is by a wide margin the largest municipality in Ontario by area - and what the two mining companies and one REIT publish about their own operations.
Municipal land area3,186 km2
City of Greater Sudbury's own About page: 'Greater Sudbury is 3,186 square kilometres in area, making it the geographically largest municipality in Ontario and second largest in Canada', about five times the size of Toronto, with 601 square kilometres of the total surface covered by water and 330 lakes. Population about 166,000 (the page's own 2018 figure).
Glencore Sudbury INO wages and operations spend, 2024$604 million
Glencore's own 'Sudbury INO in numbers - 2024' panel, with $290 million of capital investment, 2,400 directly employed (permanent employees and contractors) and four working relationships with Indigenous communities.
Vale Sudbury workforceover 4,000 direct employees plus more than 1,000 contractors
Vale Base Metals' Sudbury Complex page, undated; six mines, Clarabelle Mill, Copper Cliff Smelter Complex and Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery.
New Sudbury Centre - GLA, site and sales487,262 sq ft on 39.1 acres; $811 per sq ft
Primaris REIT asset list, Report to Unitholders Q4 2025: 100 per cent share, 110 stores, 97.6 per cent in-place occupancy, all-store sales $116,435,968 for the twelve months to 31 December 2025, ranking tenth in Primaris' portfolio by sales.
Strathcona Mill throughput, 20241,025,997 tonnes milled
Glencore Sudbury INO production figures for 2024: 7,530 tonnes of nickel and 7,154 tonnes of copper in concentrate from the mill; the Sudbury Smelter produced 62,251 tonnes of nickel and 13,720 tonnes of copper in matte.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Sudbury is the clearest case in this batch of a city whose ground is held by industry. Vale Base Metals and Glencore between them run six underground mines, an open pit, two mills, two smelting or refining complexes and their tailings areas inside one municipality; everything else - the mall, the downtown mall, the apartment blocks, the arena, the entertainment-district lands - is a rounding error against them in area, and none of it has a published acreage either. The honest shape of the record is: two miners whose operations are documented in detail and whose land area is not published anywhere, a municipality of 3,186 square kilometres, and two local families.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Vale Base Metals Totten (1883, reopened 2014, deepest level 4,650 ft), Creighton (1901, 8,330 ft), Copper Cliff Mine South and North (1904, 5,200 ft), Garson (1908, 5,330 ft), Coleman (1970) and Stobie open pit (1890, reopened 2024), plus Clarabelle Mill (1971), the Copper Cliff Smelter Complex (1930) and the Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery (1973). Over 4,000 direct employees and more than 1,000 contractors. Vale publishes no land area or acreage for the Sudbury complex, so none is claimed. |
Public company | six mines, a mill, a smelter complex and a refineryA |
| Glencore Canada (Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations) In Sudbury since 1928. Glencore's own at-a-glance page records two underground mines, one mill, one smelter and one mine project in development as at 2024, 2,400 directly employed, $604 million in wages and operations spend and $290 million in capital investment. No land area is published. |
Public company | Fraser Mine, Nickel Rim South, Craig Mine, Strathcona Mill and the Sudbury SmelterA |
| City of Greater Sudbury Not a claim about municipal title - it is the frame. The city's own About page states Greater Sudbury is 3,186 square kilometres, the geographically largest municipality in Ontario and second largest in Canada, about five times the size of Toronto, with 601 square kilometres of water and 330 lakes, and parkland 'larger than Newmarket'. The municipality's own parcel holdings are not published and were not searched. |
Government | a municipality of 3,186 km2A |
| Zulich group of companies (Dario Zulich) CBC News (2018) states he owns the Kingsway land on which the rezoning was granted; Sudbury.com (2022) repeats it. Zulich.com lists the apartment and commercial portfolio. Zulich Construction Corp. is separately licensed at 1730 Regent Street with 53 possessions since 2003. No acreage for the Kingsway holding is published in any source opened. |
Family / private | the Kingsway Entertainment District lands plus 13 named apartment propertiesA |
| Dalron Construction Limited The city's oldest building licence (1976) and its largest, at 130 Elm Street. Its own site lists New Sudbury, Villages of Montrose, Southend and Moonglo as its neighbourhoods and advertises its own rental buildings. No land area published. |
Family / private | four built-out neighbourhoods; 303 homes 2016-2026A |
| Primaris Real Estate Investment Trust The one Sudbury holding in this record with a published land area, because a REIT has to publish it: 39.1 site acres at 34 per cent coverage under New Sudbury Centre. Report to Unitholders Q4 2025. |
REIT | 39.1 acresA |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Sudbury's new-home market is small, old and local. Twenty-eight building licences sit at Sudbury addresses in Ontario's Home Construction Regulatory Authority directory, and the largest of them - Dalron, licensed since 1976 - has delivered 303 homes in eleven years, about a tenth of what a single Cambridge-licensed builder has. Nothing in the directory is a national or private-equity platform: every Sudbury licence with volume is a family or numbered local company, several of them named after the family (Corsi, Tripodi, Bartolucci, Cusinato, Zulich). The directory's figure is total possessions, 'the total number of freehold or condominium properties delivered by the licensee to homeowners', and all the Sudbury volume is freehold - not one Sudbury-licensed builder records a single condominium possession.
| Name | Type | Possessions 2016-2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Dalron Construction Limited 130 Elm Street, Sudbury; licensed 5 August 1976; all 303 freehold. By year: 38 (2016), 34 (2017), 37 (2018), 48 (2019), 27 (2020), 25 (2021), 23 (2022), 21 (2023), 26 (2024), 19 (2025), 5 to date 2026. Three chargeable conciliations and $3,397.06 in claims paid. Its own site claims two Ontario Builder of the Year awards and 29 Home Warranty Excellence awards, and it is also a landlord, listing townhomes, apartments and condominiums for rent. HCRA Ontario Builder Directory API. |
Family / private | 303A |
| 2430808 Ontario Limited (SLV Homes) 715 Lorne Street, Sudbury; licensed 8 October 2014; all freehold, and the steadiest small builder in the city - between 3 and 10 possessions in every year since 2016, 10 in 2025 and 9 to date in 2026. No chargeable conciliations, no claims paid. HCRA directory. |
Private company | 87A |
| J. Corsi Developments Inc. 1360 Kelly Lake Road, Sudbury; licensed 5 November 1996; all freehold; no conciliations and no claims. A second Corsi licence, Corsi Homes Inc., is also active in the city. HCRA directory. |
Family / private | 53A |
| Zulich Construction Corp. 1730 Regent Street, Sudbury; licensed 6 May 2003; all freehold; no chargeable conciliations and no claims paid. Volumes are small and steady - 10 (2016), 9 (2021), 5 (2025), 1 to date 2026 - which matters because the same group's significance in Sudbury is land and rental, not housebuilding. HCRA directory. |
Family / private | 53A |
| Walden Lands Inc. 598 Falconbridge Road, Sudbury; licensed 30 August 2002; all freehold; a spike of 16 in 2021 and 8 in 2022, then 1, 4 and 2. No conciliations, no claims. HCRA directory. |
Private company | 50A |
| Northern Home Builders & Renovators Inc. 1049 Notre Dame Avenue, Sudbury; licensed 9 May 2003; all freehold; peaked at 8 in 2020 and 2021. No conciliations, no claims. HCRA directory. |
Private company | 39A |
| 498599 Ontario Limited (Cusinato Developments) Included because of what the directory records against it rather than its volume: eight possessions, two chargeable conciliations and $460,229.62 paid in claims - by far the largest claims total of any Sudbury-licensed builder, and more than a hundred times Dalron's on a fraction of the homes. A sister licence, 1499469 Ontario Inc. (also Cusinato Developments, 2019), carries a further eight possessions and no claims. HCRA directory. |
Family / private | 8A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
One REIT, one hospitality company and two local families. Primaris owns the dominant mall outright and reports it in its own asset list; the downtown mall has been in the hands of a hospitality company since well before 2017; and the rental and small-commercial market runs through Zulich and Dalron, both of which publish their own building lists but no floor areas. No office REIT and no national industrial landlord appears in any Sudbury record opened - the industrial property here is owner-occupied by miners.
| Name | Type | Floor area / buildings |
|---|---|---|
| Primaris Real Estate Investment Trust New Sudbury Centre, 1349 Lasalle Blvd, held at a 100 per cent share, 110 stores, 97.6 per cent in-place occupancy, $811 per sq ft of all-store sales for the twelve months to 31 December 2025, no mortgage recorded in the asset list. Primaris' total portfolio is 15.2 million sq ft of GLA. Report to Unitholders Q4 2025. |
REIT | 487,262 sq ft on 39.1 acresA |
| Zulich group of companies Zulich's own site describes 'over 50 years experience' in Sudbury commercial leasing and apartment rentals, and lists its apartment buildings by name and address across New Sudbury, downtown, the south end and Garson: St. Raphael, Prete, Wellington (278, 351 and 357 Wellington Street), Arbour View, Barrydowne (600, 608, 632, 659 and 675 Barrydowne Road), Lasalle Villa, The Ultramod, The Casadolfo, The Summit, The Point Of View, The Meridian, Regent Court and Garson Apartments. No unit counts or floor areas are published on the site, and the page does not name the owning entity for any individual building. |
Family / private | 13 named apartment properties plus commercial buildingsB |
| Vista Hospitality Named as the mall's owner by Northern Ontario Business in November 2017. No floor area is published and no later ownership document was opened, so the figure is the building rather than an area. |
Private company | Elm Place / Rainbow Centre, downtownB |
| Dalron Construction Limited Dalron's own site lists its rental stock - townhomes, apartments and condominiums - alongside four neighbourhoods it has built out: New Sudbury, Villages of Montrose, Southend and Moonglo. It publishes no unit count, no floor area and no acreage, so none is given. |
Family / private | four neighbourhoods plus its own rental portfolioB |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The land area held by Vale Base Metals and by Glencore in Greater Sudbury. Neither company publishes an acreage or hectarage for its Sudbury holdings, and Ontario publishes no bulk ownership file, so the two companies that plainly hold the most ground in the city carry no figure. Glencore plc's and Vale S.A.'s group reserve and resource statements were not opened for this record.
- Whether Vista Hospitality still owns Elm Place (the former Rainbow Centre). The only document opened that names an owner is from November 2017.
- The acreage of the Kingsway Entertainment District lands, and the name of the holding company. CBC News and Sudbury.com both name the individual owner; neither names a corporation or an area. Reporting found in search results but not opened states that 35 acres were transferred to the city for a nominal $10 - that figure is NOT carried here because the article was not opened.
- The current status of the Kingsway arena project. The last document opened is from September 2022, after council rejected the $215-million proposal in July 2022; nothing later was read.
- Any assessed value, highest-assessed parcel or assessment base for Greater Sudbury. MPAC publishes none of it openly, and the city's budget-and-finance landing page opened carries no figures in its readable text.
- KGHM's Victoria project and any other third-party mining landholding in the basin. Not opened, and therefore not recorded.
- Floor areas and unit counts for the Zulich and Dalron rental portfolios. Both companies list buildings by name and address and publish neither.
- Any link between a property holding and elected office in Greater Sudbury. Nothing was established. The Kingsway rezoning is a council decision about a private owner's land, which is a planning fact and not a holding by an office-holder; the record therefore carries no civic entry.
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Sources
- Land Registry - overview — Government of Ontario (ServiceOntario) · openA
- Bulletin No. 2026-04: Land Services Fee Changes effective November 2, 2026 (Schedules I-III) — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, ServiceOntario, Land Registry Services Branch · openA
- MPAC home page (AboutMyProperty, propertyline, Municipal Connect logins) — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation · registrationA
- Sudbury Complex - our operations — Vale Base Metals · openA
- Sudbury INO - At a glance (Sudbury INO in numbers 2024; production numbers 2024) — Glencore Canada · openA
- Report to Unitholders Q4 2025 - Asset List, Shopping Centres (New Sudbury Centre) — Primaris Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- Sudbury mall owners reveal proposed renderings for city library, art gallery — Northern Ontario Business · openA
- Sudbury's Kingsway Entertainment District passes rezoning vote at city council — CBC News (Sudbury) · openA
- Zulich reaffirms 'unwavering' commitment to Sudbury — Sudbury.com · openA
- Ontario Builder Directory (builders, buildersummary and builderProperties API endpoints) — Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) · openA
- Zulich - apartment and commercial rentals in Sudbury — Zulich · openA
- Dalron Construction Limited - home page (neighbourhoods and rentals) — Dalron Construction Limited · openA
- About Greater Sudbury - Area — City of Greater Sudbury · openA
- New name and look for downtown Sudbury mall — CTV News Northern Ontario · openC