Mark Chipman
| Mark Chipman | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 56–57) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Occupation | Chairman of True North Sports & Entertainment President of Megill-Stephenson Company |
Mark Chipman, OM (born 1960) is a Canadian hockey executive, businessman, and lawyer. Chipman is best known as the chairman of True North Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League and the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is also the team's governor and currently sits on the National Hockey League Board of Governors' Executive Committee.
Chipman attended St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg, graduating in 1979. From 1979 to 1983, he studied economics at the University of North Dakota, while playing football for the Fighting Sioux. He obtained a law degree from the same institution in 1985.
After working as a lawyer in Florida, Chipman returned to Winnipeg in 1988 and joined Birchwood Automotive Group, a group of car dealerships founded by his father, Robert Chipman. Since 2001, Mark has been the president of Megill-Stephenson Company, the Chipman family's holding company, whose subsidiaries include True North Sports & Entertainment, the Birchwood dealerships, and Longboat Development Corporation, the company's real estate development division. Megill-Stephenson also founded a financing company called National Leasing in 1977, which it sold in 2009. Its real estate division, the Stevenson Group of companies, was largely divested in 2015.
Longboat Development Corporation is currently developing a $75 million mixed-use tower across from the MTS Centre, on the north side of Portage Avenue. The key part of the project is a 20-storey, 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) tower featuring commercial space and a hotel. Most of the tower is occupied by two tenants: Canadian firm Stantec and the Quebec-based Groupe Germain. Stantec has consolidated its Winnipeg operations within the tower's office space, while the Germaine Group has opened an ALT Hotel that occupies the top twelve floors. The rest of the building will be developed into restaurant and retail space. A 450-stall parkade is also under construction. Construction began in early 2012 and some portions of the building opened in Spring of 2015.
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