About
Us
Drewlo, at its 50th Anniversary, decided to enter the US apartment market as part of its next 50 years growth strategy.
Founded in 2008, Marquee Asset Management LLC
created an integrated platform through its main operating companies, Shelter
Asset Management LLC and SAM Residential Group LLC.
How We Started
History
Offering stability and expertise, Marquee Asset Management has its roots in the stable Canadian multi-family industry. As part of the Drewlo Family of Companies, Canada’s ninth largest rental housing provider, and Best Rental Housing Provider Nationally in 2021, we are able to offer our clients proven and diverse investment strategies including value add, opportunistic, restore to core, and core plus apartment acquisitions and new-construction managed via our operating divisions: Shelter Asset Management LLC, and SAM Residential Group LLC.
Our team based in the U.S., and supported by our over 600 Drewlo colleagues is comprised of experienced industry experts who are dedicated to our clients and partners.
Our Process
Marquee Asset Management is committed to building its U.S investment platform through Shelter Asset Management LLC and SAM Residential Group. With a dedicated, experienced and growing team of apartment professionals based in our of the Los Angeles, and the full support of the deep bench of talent that work for the Drewlo Family of Companies, Marquee is committed to generating results for our partners and clients. Marquee has the corporate culture that has evolved over 6 decades at Drewlo and comes from developing, owning and managing our own portfolio of over 10,000 apartments. We only know how to think like an owner and deliver results that owners demand. We make conservative real estate investments and create value through hard work, and detail oriented professional management that only decades as a successful owner can teach you.
The assets we acquire provide opportunities to add value and increase cash flow. The assets we construct are Class A properties built with controlled construction costs and timelines through standard of practices and processes.
Allan Drewlo
Allan Drewlo is the owner and President of Drewlo Holdings Inc., the multi-family rental company founded by his father, Eugen, in 1958. For the past 65 years, Drewlo Holdings has owned, constructed, and managed apartment buildings across Southwestern Ontario, with over 70 locations and almost 10,000 units in Burlington, Kitchener, Woodstock, London, and Sarnia. Allan is also the co-owner and founder of the Ironstone Building Company, one of Ontario’s largest home builders.
Prior to leading Drewlo Holdings, Allan founded Drewco Development Corp in 1984 to launch new investment platforms and opportunities. While Drewco started by developing high-rise apartment buildings in Ontario, it also founded and operated the home building company Drewlo Homes, which was the foundation behind the launch of the Ironstone home building platform today. Drewco branched into large scale residential land development, that have incorporated low and mid-rise apartment development, and single family and low density residential rent to own concepts. Drewco launched a substantial 3rd party debt and equity investment platform with investments across Canada in real estate, operating companies and the proptech space. Lastly, Drewco launched in 2008, Marquee Asset Management LLC as its U.S investment holding company.
Born and raised in London, Allan is passionate about all types of housing and is dedicated to providing more housing choice and supply across the province. The Ivey Business School graduate is also a well-known expert in his field, often lending his expertise to industry reports and news coverage of multi-family issues.
Allan serves on the Board of Directors for the Federation of Rental-Housing Providers of Ontario and the London Development Institute, and is a member of the London Home Builders Association and the London Property Management Association.
Stu Hansen
Stu Hansen is the President of Marquee Asset Management LLC, Shelter Asset Management LLC and SAM Residential Group LLC. Stu Hansen has over 30 years of real estate experience and is the second generation of an Entrepreneurial Family Business. His family founded Hansen Construction and grew that company to be the largest Oil Field Contractor in Canada during the oil boom of the mid 20th century. Hansen Construction opened many of the oilfields in Northern Canada for Imperial Oil and Shell. It later built the Rainbow Dam and the Trans-Canada Highway thru Banff National Park.
After selling Hansen Construction, Stu Hansen’s parents founded A&I Hotels and starting acquiring and building hotels across Western Canada.
Similar to Allan, Stu grew up on construction sites, working at the family business and listening and learning about business at the dinner table with his parents.
While at Western University in 1984, and the Richard Ivey School of Business, Stu Hansen formed a lifelong friendship and eventual future partnership with Allan Drewlo.
After graduating from the Richard Ivy business school, he started his career at A&I Hotels which was re-branded as Clarion Hotels.
Stu transitioned to the apartment industry with Allan’s guidance and support through Drewco Development Corp., of the Drewlo Family of Companies. Stu Hansen learned from Allan Drewlo all aspects of the Drewlo key success factors from their residential real estate platform from single family land development and home building, to his current role overseeing the acquisition, development and management of institutional grade multifamily across North America.