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National: This Toronto Condo Will Be Developed By An All-Female Team
Team leaders Taya Cook and Sherry Larjani and an aerial view of 689 The Queensway
Credit: Riley Stewart Photography,Google Maps
L&L Mag's MaryAnne Gilmartin wants to do a similar project with all women in NYC.
Toronto - June 2, 2019
By Maya Blackstone
A new condo in Toronto is being developed by a team comprising only of women.
Developers Taya Cook and Sherry Larjani have spent the last several months securing a team to work on their new condominium project, Reina, and everyone involved are women, reports Real Estate News Exchange (RENX). That includes engineers, urban planners, construction managers and architects. The project will be the first in Canada developed by an all-female team.
Cook and Larjani were inspired to build their all-female team after reading an article about the Toronto construction business where not a single woman was mentioned. They hope “to create more visibility for women in real estate development, and to inspire younger women to see career possibilities,” according to a press release.
“It’s no longer just the condo kings who are impacting our city,” Cook later said in an interview with RENX.
L&L Mag’s MaryAnne Gilmartin has spoken to The Real Deal — most recently at TRD’s 12th annual New York City showcase — about doing a similar project with women in the Big Apple, which she’s dubbed the “She-building.”
The Toronto condo will be constructed on the site of a former strip club, House of Lancaster. The controversial adult establishment, demolished last year, gained local infamy as the site of three shootings since 2013. [RENX]
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