Create with intention.
Hospitality & Lifestyle Properties.
+ About
Creative &
Development
Consultancy
KaidCo is a creative thought leader in hospitality renaissance in a competitive real estate and industry landscape. We collaborate with asset owners, developers, and investors seeking solutions to their challenges or refinements to their visions.
Our approach involves developing innovative concepts and strategies that unlock unique opportunities and enhance the market position of underutilized real estate assets within the intricate ecosystem of cities and neighbourhoods. Each aspect of our strategy undergoes rigorous vetting and quantification through comprehensive feasibility studies, industry benchmarking, and a comprehensive development and operating plan that aligns with our vision. Upon strategy formulation, we provide project management, creative guidance, and team support to ensure seamless execution, whether as a full-service consultant or as a value-added service to enhance our client’s in-house capabilities.
Since KaidCo’s inception in Australia in 2003, Kylie Burton has contributed to the strategic development, design, and market positioning of over 220 residential, hotel, office, culinary, and lifestyle properties across North America and Australia, both as a consultant and owner. Notably, one of these properties, an award-winning Condé Nast top 10 boutique hotel, recognized by Brian Chesky, CEO of AirBnB, as exemplifying the future of boutique hotels.
Kylie
Burton
Kylie is an Australian by origin, living a transpacific life with her adopted homeland in North America. She is motivated to design, develop, and actualize a sense of home, vitality, and connection, not only within the neighbourhood and city fabric of projects, but a connected ecosystem across the Pacific. Kylie is driven by a natural curiosity, and a deep understanding of people, cultural nuances and how they inter-relate with the world around them. Often bridging the gap between operating brands, creative teams, and the developer or asset owners’ needs, Kylie's approach balances both a creative and pragmatic set of skills.
“A unique perspective on market trends & setting the mandate for needed, localized hospitality.”
- Brian Chesky, CEO AirBNB
We assemble & lead teams through each stage of a project: starting with strategy - creating a cohesive vision, feasibility analysis, development & business plan; then overseeing the roll out of that plan through to market.
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Market analysis & project positioning strategy
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Feasibility studies
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Creative direction & management (project, design, brand, positioning & programming)
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Development management (design, permits, tendering & approvals)
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Market & project positioning strategy
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Business plan development, programming & performance KPIs
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Investor, debt & finance modeling
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Project team assembly & management
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Brand partnerships & operating agreements
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Tenant, operator & lease curation
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Sales & Marketing Strategy
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Operations & labour modelling
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F&B menu concept design, testing & development
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Systems & documentation
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Multi-location & new market expansion
+ Projects
Current Development
Projects in Progress
+ 1111 & 1177 W Hastings St
A masterplan repositioning of two commercial office towers to include more of-the-moment hospitality, lifestyle & wellness amenities that enhance the user experience & city block, spanning from 1111 W. Hastings through to 1177 W. Hastings St.
Phase one of a ten part redevelopment plan focuses primarily on 1177 W Hasting St with the introduction of a
+ Soto on 28th
Nestled amongst Vancouver’s West Side Garden District, Soto on W 28 presents an intimate collection of twenty 3 and 4-bedroom garden bungalows, townhomes, and penthouses, marrying a serene Japanese aesthetic with contemporary West Coast living.
shared work & business lounge, cafe, events & meeting facilities on Level 15 & a hotel-like lobby, cafe & arrival experience on the ground, due for completion in 2025.
Pre-completion work has resulted in improved rents & 30% increase in occupancy, as well as a net zero carbon certification, the first of its era in North America, with a 5 year payback on investment.
Level 15 - 1177 W Hastings St
Phase One of our master plan repositioning of 1177 W Hastings St. Consisting of a mid stack cafe, bar, business lounge, event space, premium meeting rooms & workshops spaces, co-working & a modular turn key office prototype that will be implemented throughout the building.
+ Seymour Hotel
A landmark project in Vancouver's downtown core that celebrates and enhances the surrounding public realm, bringing new life to a mid-block portion of Seymour Street through the creation of an active street front, localized hotel amenities and an architectural expression that promotes transparency and inclusivity.
+ King & Columbia
Sixteen modern brownstone townhomes combine with Riley Park’s charm to create an alluring living experience on Vancouver’s upper West side. These new townhouses, designed by architect Taizo Yamamoto, achieve a sophisticated warmth that smoothly transition from interior to private outdoor spaces. As you move through the townhome,
absorbing unexpected details and historic touches, there’s a lasting sense of discovery. Unearth more layers of home when you step outdoors, where thoughtful landscaping defines serene enclaves. Savour your independence with a private entrance and direct access to your private garage. Elegance is palpable and livability is innate.
+ Projects
Current Operating
Projects in Progress
+ Projects
Completed Projects
+ Drift, San Jose
Acquired as a run-down apartment building in 2012 & repositioned as one of the first Airbnb hotels to market, Drift was a highly localized & youthful concept, addressing a rate gap opportunity in one of Mexico’s most expensive resort towns.
Drift garnered significant interest from Airbnb head office itself, with Brian Chesky coining it “a new standard for boutique hotels, with a unique perspective on market trends & setting the mandate for needed, localized hospitality”.
Working with the gov’t of Mexico, Drift’s unique labour model educated & empowered the local community, enrolling them in a vision & new standard of operations that was integral to
the town’s growth, sustainable tourism, & a more localized economy, while setting a new standard for problematic boom-bust tourism towns of Mexico.
Drift was awarded a Design Hotels accreditation, named as one of ‘Mexico’s top 7 boutique hotels’, & featured in 75+ publications, including Travel+Leisure, NYTimes, GQ, Esquire & Elle.
Featuring 8 rooms, an outdoor kitchen, pool, fire pit, rooftop, event space, food cart & mezcal bar, Drift’s Thursday night locals night (designed to celebrate local chefs, purveyors & a sustainable food ecosystem), was named by Conde Nast Traveler as one of ‘the top 7 local bars in Mexico’.
+ Rose Hotel, Venice Beach
Nestled between the beach & Rose Ave, The Rose was originally the private residence (aka ‘brothel’) of Abbot Kinney (Founder of Venice). Built in 1908, the property was also the local hang out for Hollywood creatives such as Charlie Chaplin & Jim Morrison.
Inspired by the personalized hospitality of a boutique
hotel & the comfort of home for migratory sun seekers, consultants & freelancers, The Rose was a convivial balance of an apartment hotel meets private beach house, cafe & event space, with fully furnished hotel rooms & apartment suites available for nightly & extended stays of 30 days or more - a local haunt for creatives, surfers, cafe dwellers, residents & guests alike.
+ Zippers Beach Apartment Hotel
A new build, 16-room, reduced service apartment hotel overlooking Zippers Beach, San Jose Del Cabo.
+ De La Costa Residential Resort
A new land development & feasibility study for a prime beach front property on the Baja’s prestigious East Cape, neighbouring the new Four Seasons, Aman & Soho House development. This private resort parcel comprised of 5 fractionalized ownership hospitality homes, 18 surf bungalows, 10 junior surf cabins, a beach club & wellness retreat.
+ Haro Guest House
A heritage bed & breakfast repositioning with 12 rooms, & a new operating brand centred around epicurean amenities & programming.
+ Kip Cafe
An artisan espresso bar & localized breakfast & lunch cafe situated within a commercial office tower. Part of a masterplan repositioning strategy for the office tower, including the business plan development of several owner operated F&B amenities throughout.
+ 942 W Broadway
A mixed use development comprising of 178 market rental units, 23,000 sf of office & 15,000 sf of amenity space.
+ Tofino Beach House
A membership based-legacy ownership property with 4 fully-serviced, ocean front owners suites, a beach club, onsite staff, wellness centre, wine cellar, green house & organic vegetable garden, boathouse & children's bunk house. Developed as 42, fractionalized ownership units on exclusive Cox Bay in Tofino, BC., the Tofino Beach House nestled harmoniously next to the Pacific Rim National Park, in the heart of the Clayoquot Sound World Heritage Site, on 3.38 acres of walk-on beach front land with direct access to Canada's premier surfing beach.
Designed as a sanctuary for owners, the Tofino Beach House was developed in reverence to its rugged West Coast surrounds, with an intentional footprint, sitting quietly amongst the landscape. Preservation, sustainability & consideration for the surrounding ecosystem paramount in every element of its creation & operation.
+ Ojai Hotel, California
Originally owned & operated as an aged care facility by the Catholic Church, & frequented by Johnny Cash in his youth this property was identified for hotel use in an otherwise tightly held real estate market & acquired for repositioning as a 39 room hotel, wellness retreat, farmers market, restaurant & event space; situated on 35-acres of orange orchard in Ojai, California - 90 minutes drive from L.A.
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+ Cardero Abodes & Grocer
A heritage re-development & feasibility study comprising of 9 Bed and Breakfast suites, & a neighbourhood grocery store converted into a breakfast cafe.
+ 550 S Shatto
A mixed use development comprising of 230 market rental units & the repurposing of a 20,000 sf heritage church into office & a hospitality forward offering.
+ Projects
Past Clients
& Strategy Work
Hospitality: AirBnb Nth America / Andaz, Palm Springs / Beach Side Rental Properties / Beachcomber Spa, Montreal / Cardero Abodes, Vancouver / Cox Bay, Tofino / Crystal Lodge, Whistler / Drift, San
Jose / Golf BC, Canada & Hawaii / Elements Marriott, Nth America / Haro Bed & Breakfast, Vancouver / Hotel Azure, Lake Tahoe / Hotel Ojai, California / Moxy Hotels by Marriott, Nth America / NeueHouse, Los Angeles / PaliHouse, Los Angeles / Public Hotels, USA / Rose Hotel, Venice Beach / Seaglass Guest House, Vancouver / Soho House, Nth America / The Spoke Club, Toronto / Tourism New Zealand, Auckland / Venice Beach House, Los Angeles / Viceroy Hotel, San Jose Del Cabo / Zippers Beach Hotel, Baja. Food & Beverage: Basalt Wine Bar, Whistler / Blenz Canadian Coffee, Canada / Cobbs Bread, Canada / Chambar, Vancouver / Dinner x Design, Vancouver / Granville Island Brewery, Vancouver / Kip Coffee, Vancouver / Panago Pizza, Canada / Parmalat Dairy, Australia. Commercial Office: 1111 & 1177 W Hastings, Vancouver / 942 W Broadway, Chinatown LA / 550 S Shatto, Koreatown LA / Oxford Properties / Sora Maison, Nth America. Real Estate & Residential: AV Jennings, Australia / Burrard Group, Vancouver / Devine Limited, Australia / Forme Development, Nth America / Golden Properties, Vancouver.
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