Robert Spanier

Biography: A seasoned real estate professional with a unique skill set in mixed-use development and place-making. With two decades of hands-on experience, Rob has brought to life over 80 legacy projects throughout North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Rob is an international real estate development advisor dedicated to creating innovative, next-generation destinations and places with significant expertise in creating thriving communities with uniquely curated specialty retail experiences. By playing an integral part of multi-disciplinary project teams, Rob commits his extensive knowledge in large-scale mixed-use development, master planning, specialty leasing and deal making and programing and activation to create vibrant, livable, and successful communities Rob has spent two decades working in the real estate sector on complex retail and mixed-use development projects, including 11 years at Live Work Learn Play Inc. as a Partner & Principal opening the Toronto office and developing and advising on numerous large and small-scale mixed-use destinations. He spent 5 years at Intrawest Corporation, where he led an international leasing team that created iconic destination resort towns worldwide. Most notably, Rob has been involved in helping to develop: Lakeview, a 147-acre mixed-use development on Mississauga’s waterfront, the 680-acre parcel of land at Woodbine Racetrack (“Woodbine Districts”) in Toronto, the 2015 PanAm Games Athletes Village (“Canary District”), the redevelopment of the Toronto Waterfront, the development of the Florida State University’s (“College Town”) in Tallahassee Florida, the development of Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort (“Village of Baytowne Wharf”) in Destin Florida, as well as the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, California. Rob was also actively involved in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre development (VMC), and The City of Mississauga and Downtown London Ontario working directly each City and with many land owners to he