Tracy HanesFor the past five years, Kim Valliere and her team have lived through the challenges and rewards of bringing The Well, RioCan’s most ambitious development in Canada, to life.
“As we get closer to the completion of The Well, there’s buzz about retail tenants and how I’m pushing all of the contractors off, how we are going to stage the opening and operation of the site. I’m extremely excited,” Valliere says. RIOCAN – Kim Valliere, RioCan vice-president of development construction, and her team are preparing for the The Well’s final stages. The massive mixed-use development in downtown Toronto includes office space, retail space, food services and 1,700 residential buildings bordering Front, Spadina and Wellington streets.“It makes every day an exciting day. We’ve had upwards of 900 people onsite at The Well at any given time. My day-to-day focus is not just The Well, however.
Although there’s not another project of the scale of The Well currently, “we do have a lot of exciting projects across the county and it’s about refocussing part of the team into other projects and applying those lessons we learned from The Well.”For one, they realized how important it was to track shipping containers of materials from overseas due to supply chain issues.
Valliere says her team will continue to look for innovative or sustainable opportunities for RioCan projects.