The Trevor Rose Podcast #248: Bob Dhillon (Mainstreet) - 25 Years of Growth, Mid-Market Value & Early Real Estate Deals
Greetings, and welcome back to the podcast.
This episode, we are joined by Mr. Bob Dhillon - President & CEO of Mainstreet Equity - a TSX listed real estate company with a market cap of ~$2 billion.
Bob Dhillon is Founder, President & CEO of Mainstreet Equity Corp., a publicly traded real estate corporation on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:MEQ). Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, as at Q3 2025, assets are valued at CDN$3B+ with 18,771 rental apartment units across western Canada (BC, AB, SK and Winnipeg). For over 25 years, Bob and Mainstreet have provided consistent, year over year, double digit returns to investors through MEQ’s continued organic growth.
Bob is also the owner of National Payments, a Visa and MasterCard approved merchant-processing business in the financial services sector.
In 2018, Bob gifted CDN$10M to the University of Lethbridge towards the creation of the Dhillon School of Business (DSB).
Mr. Dhillon has been awarded numerous awards including: Appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal 2022 and Diamond Jubilee Medal, Appointed Honorary Consul General of Belize for Canada, Entrepreneur of the Year Prairies Real Estate and Construction (Ernst & Young 2015), Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards (Royal Bank of Canada, 2015), & Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People (Alberta Venture Magazine, 2011).
Mr. Dhillon sits on numerous boards including Strathcona Resources, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), Advisory Council for the Canada-India Business Council & Invest Alberta Corporation.
Mr. Dhillon received a Master of Business Administration - Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Among other things we learned about The Berkley Days, Montney 1st Innings & Canadian LNG Growth.
Among other things we learned about 25 Years of Growth, Mid-Market Value & Early Real Estate Deals.
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