Former B.C. finance minister and deputy premier Kevin Falcon has found a job with real-estate developer Anthem Properties, the company announced today.
Falcon will join Anthem as an executive vice-president, responsible for growing the company's business portfolio and raising equity funds from banks and investors.
Falcon served as an MLA for 12 years. Prior to holding the finance portfolio, he was minister of transportation and then minister of health.
In 2010, Falcon ran for leadership of the B.C. Liberal party after the resignation of Premier Gordon Campbell, but lost to current Premier Christy Clark. In August 2012 he announced he would step down, citing family commitments.
Before becoming a politician, Falcon was vice-president at Northwest Investment Properties. In 1998, he founded communications firm Access Communications.
Anthem has recently bought the historic Save On Meats building in East Vancouver, home of a diner and butcher shop that was recently featured on Dragons' Den spinoff TV show The Big Decision.
Anthem announced that it plans to renovate the historic landmark, consolidating the Save On Meats businesses onto the ground-floor retail level and creating new loft-style office space on the building's second, third and fourth levels.
