Simcoe Chapter Dinner Meeting: Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Simcoe Chapter Dinner Meeting and Seminar

“Public-Private Delivery of Purpose-Built Rental”

Held Tuesday, October 8, 2024

LOCATION: Royal Canadian Military Institute, 426 University Avenue

NETWORKING RECEPTION: 6:00 p.m.
DINNER: 7:00 p.m.
PRESENTATION: 8:00 p.m.

SPEAKERS:

Jennifer Keesmaat
President and CEO, Collectdev-Markee

Michael Norton
Chief Development Officer, CreateTO

MODERATOR:

Signe Leisk
Partner, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

CreateTO and Collectdev-Markee recently partnered to build 447 new purpose-built rental homes in midtown Toronto, with 30% affordable rental secured in perpetuity on an expedited time line.  Jennifer Keesmaat and Michael Norton discussed how the project came together and how public-private partnerships can be utilized to deliver much needed rental housing, while ensuring the project ‘pencils’.