{"id":290934,"date":"2023-03-23T04:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/?p=290934"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:42:52","slug":"riocans-kim-valliere-discusses-role-on-the-well-strides-for-women-in-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/infrastructure\/2023\/03\/riocans-kim-valliere-discusses-role-on-the-well-strides-for-women-in-the-industry","title":{"rendered":"RioCan\u2019s Kim Valliere discusses role on The Well, strides for women in the industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the past five years, Kim Valliere and her team have lived through the challenges and rewards of bringing The Well, RioCan\u2019s most ambitious development in Canada, to life.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Now, Valliere, RioCan vice-president of development construction, and her team are preparing for the development\u2019s final stages.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we get closer to the completion of The Well, there\u2019s buzz about retail tenants and how I\u2019m pushing all of the contractors off, how we are going to stage the opening and operation of the site. I\u2019m extremely excited,\u201d Valliere says.<\/p>\n
Guiding the project through a global pandemic, union-wide contract negotiations and strikes, unprecedented supply chain factors were unprecedented hurdles.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a long road to completion and people get worn down, but the buzz about the openings is like a breath of fresh air,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n