Primary Job Title President Primary Organization 
ThreeCell
Location Helena, Montana, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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on Ho is no different. Physically active and sharp-witted for 73, he remains best known for developing a network of retirement communities in the Lower Mainland during the 1990s that sold to Chartwell REIT in 2005. But he isn’t the retiring type.
“If you just sit at home on the La-Z-Boy, you become old much faster,” he said, laughing, during an
interview at the Yaletown tower that’s been home for the past 20 years.
But he knows the future is uncertain; his wife is battling Parkinson’s disease, and the future holds no guarantees for his own health. Having built a career housing seniors, Ho is now plotting his next move.
That move may well be Opal, a 135-unit project his latest company, Element Lifestyle Retirement Inc., is developing on King Edward Avenue in Vancouver near the King Edward transit station. Similar to his previous communities, it will offer a mix of independent-living and assisted-living units for rent or purchase, as well as 32 licensed complex-care units.
