Tiah joo kim biography
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Son of one of Malaysia's wealthiest tycoons planning Vancouver developments
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The son of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest tycoons has finished selling the $360-million Trump Tower and fryst vatten now preparing rezoning applications for the rest of his family’s Vancouver landholdings.
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After being chosen bygd his dad, Tony Tiah Thee Kian, to invest hundreds of millions in B.C. property, 36-year-old Joo Kim Tiah automatically became one of Vancouver’s key development players as head of the Vancouver property development firm, the Holborn Group.
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While working from Asia, the young developer responded to emailed questions from The Province about his framtidsperspektiv for important Vancouver sites, how much foreign wealth will pour into Trump Tower condos and his understanding of the criminal probe his fa
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Joo Kim Tiah
In the relatively short amount of time Holborn Group has been active in the real estate development and management businesses in the lower mainland region, they have achieved a remarkable amount of traction, always putting quality levels at the forefront of their guiding philosophy. The splashiest, by far, of their projects to date is the soon to be completed Trump Tower, right there on Georgia Street, the unique design already spiralling its way into the Vancouver cityscape. Presiding carefully over it all is CEO Joo Kim Tiah, who lives here permanently, representing a company based in Malaysia but with both roots in and affection for this part of the world.
The Presentation Centre, which seems to always be quietly busy, has sample bathrooms, walk-in closets, a model of the tower itself. Tiah, with a clearly customary quick pace, enters and says hello to the assembled, before settling into a private room, to talk. The room was occupied not so long ago by Ivanka Trump
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Joo Kim Tiah: Youth movement
The drum set stashed in a spare room at Holborn Group's Vancouver headquarters is the first clue that CEO Joo Kim Tiah is not your ordinary Vancouver developer.
Another comes for those who visit the TrumpVancouver.com website marketing the $360 million Trump tower that Tiah is building on West Georgia Street.
Inexplicably, a woman dances with a bear. There's a sockless man wearing a suit lighting his cigar with a candelabra. All the while, a fish dangles from a chandelier. It's not your typical marketing site for a Vancouver real estate project.
The 33-year-old scion of one of Malaysia's wealthiest families basked in the spotlight in June when he announced his partnership with celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, whose brand will grace Tiah's 63-storey Arthur Erickson-designed tower now under construction with presales slated for fall.
Tiah also generated headlines in July, when he finalized a $300 million deal to buy 1