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Utilizing Curation and Implementation to Create Vibrant Places with Rob Spanier – Ep. 55About the GuestI am extremely excited to share this next conversation with all of you. Today on the show I have Rob Spanier, President of the Spanier Group. Rob is a seasoned real estate professional specializing in mixed-use development and placemaking. With 20 plus years of hands-on experience, Rob has brought to life more than 80 legacy projects throughout North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Rob is an international real estate development advisor dedicated to creating innovative, next-gen destinations and places, with expertise in creating thriving communities with uniquely curated specialty retail experiences. By playing an integral role on multi-disciplinary project teams, Rob commits his extensive knowledge in large-scale mixed-use development, master planning, specialty leasing, and deal-making as well as programming and activation in order to create vibrant and prosperous communities.The Spanier Group provides real estate development and advisory services dedicated to the creation of vibrant next-generation destinations. With over 20 years of experience in strategic mixed-use development and placemaking around the world, Spanier Group specializes in leading iconic large-scale projects and supporting multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the successful creation of thriving places and communities. Their team specializes in mixed-use developments, placemaking, deal-making, community involvement, and much more.In this episode, we take a look at Rob’s top tip for creating memorable spaces, the keys to success in mixed-use developments, and we discussed what is truly important when trying to curate a specific sense of place. There is tons of great information in this episode and I greatly appreciated Rob for taking the time out of his extremely busy schedule to discuss this topic of Utilizing Curation and Implementation to Create Vibrant Places.
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Matt (00:05):Hey, welcome to the show, Rob!Rob (00:15):Nice to meet you and nice to see you.Matt (00:17):Yeah, I'm glad you could join me today. I've heard a lot about what you guys are doing there, Spanier group, and I thought it'd be interesting to kind of dig into that a little bit and kind of unravel what you guys are working on. So to begin, I want to get a little bit more about your background in real estate, where it kind of all began the Genesis of Rob and real estate, and then we'll kind of carry it through to where you're at Spanier.Rob (00:47):Sure. Sounds good. And thank you for having me on the show. Really appreciate the opportunity to just sort of connect and chat a bit. So my background is not a traditional one. I went to school in Canada and studied McGill University and had this incredible opportunity to join a company called Intrawest corporation Intrawest resorts, which in the mid to late nineties was the preeminent resort developer that was doing some incredible stuff around the world, Canada, the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. And when I joined them at the ripe age of 22, I knew very little about real estate, much less so about commercial real estate and even less so about retail. But I grew up in Montreal and Montreal is probably one of the greatest cities in the world that has its foundations and its bones that are, that come from the European design of cities.Rob (01:41):And so everything is so close. So where I grew up in the neighborhood of NDG, at the corner of my street was the fire station and the bakery and the fruit store and the bank, and then the larger grocery store and the tailor and all of those services. And so growing up for me, I lived in a world of mixed-use.
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Utilizing Curation and Implementation to Create Vibrant Places with Rob Spanier – Ep. 55About the GuestI am extremely excited to share this next conversation with all of you. Today on the show I have Rob Spanier, President of the Spanier Group. Rob is a seasoned real estate professional specializing in mixed-use development and placemaking. With 20 plus years of hands-on experience, Rob has brought to life more than 80 legacy projects throughout North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Rob is an international real estate development advisor dedicated to creating innovative, next-gen destinations and places, with expertise in creating thriving communities with uniquely curated specialty retail experiences. By playing an integral role on multi-disciplinary project teams, Rob commits his extensive knowledge in large-scale mixed-use development, master planning, specialty leasing, and deal-making as well as programming and activation in order to create vibrant and prosperous communities.The Spanier Group provides real estate development and advisory services dedicated to the creation of vibrant next-generation destinations. With over 20 years of experience in strategic mixed-use development and placemaking around the world, Spanier Group specializes in leading iconic large-scale projects and supporting multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the successful creation of thriving places and communities. Their team specializes in mixed-use developments, placemaking, deal-making, community involvement, and much more.In this episode, we take a look at Rob’s top tip for creating memorable spaces, the keys to success in mixed-use developments, and we discussed what is truly important when trying to curate a specific sense of place. There is tons of great information in this episode and I greatly appreciated Rob for taking the time out of his extremely busy schedule to discuss this topic of Utilizing Curation and Implementation to Create Vibrant Places.
Show Notes
Matt (00:05):Hey, welcome to the show, Rob!Rob (00:15):Nice to meet you and nice to see you.Matt (00:17):Yeah, I'm glad you could join me today. I've heard a lot about what you guys are doing there, Spanier group, and I thought it'd be interesting to kind of dig into that a little bit and kind of unravel what you guys are working on. So to begin, I want to get a little bit more about your background in real estate, where it kind of all began the Genesis of Rob and real estate, and then we'll kind of carry it through to where you're at Spanier.Rob (00:47):Sure. Sounds good. And thank you for having me on the show. Really appreciate the opportunity to just sort of connect and chat a bit. So my background is not a traditional one. I went to school in Canada and studied McGill University and had this incredible opportunity to join a company called Intrawest corporation Intrawest resorts, which in the mid to late nineties was the preeminent resort developer that was doing some incredible stuff around the world, Canada, the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. And when I joined them at the ripe age of 22, I knew very little about real estate, much less so about commercial real estate and even less so about retail. But I grew up in Montreal and Montreal is probably one of the greatest cities in the world that has its foundations and its bones that are, that come from the European design of cities.Rob (01:41):And so everything is so close. So where I grew up in the neighborhood of NDG, at the corner of my street was the fire station and the bakery and the fruit store and the bank, and then the larger grocery store and the tailor and all of those services. And so growing up for me, I lived in a world of mixed-use.