Owner’s-Side Development Partner

From land to approvals, on your side of the table.

We help nonprofits, co-operatives, community centres and masjids buy land, plan what to build, and secure the approvals to build it.

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What We Do

From Choosing a Site to Securing Approvals

Three services for organizations building on, buying or redeveloping land.

Land and Site Due Diligence

Know what your site can support before you spend on design or buy land.

  • Planning policy, zoning and permitted uses
  • Site constraints, title and legal rights
  • Development capacity and the approval path
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Development Management

We run the development process so you can focus on decisions.

  • Build and coordinate your consultant team: architects, engineers, surveyors, legal and finance
  • Manage applications, submissions and municipal approvals
  • Manage pre-development budgets and schedules (not construction)
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Community Engagement

Bring members, neighbours and stakeholders with you, with engagement designed around your project and its approvals.

  • Extensive experience with diverse communities across the GTA
  • Complex, high-stakes public consultation
  • What-we-heard reporting that supports your application
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Who We Work With

Organizations With a Vision for Land

You bring the vision. We help build the plan, whether you already own land or are looking for it.

Building on land you own
Nonprofits and community service agencies
Housing co-operatives and community land trusts
Community centres
Masjids
Looking for land
Organizations buying a site for the first time
Communities seeking a long-term lease or partnership with a public landowner
Community organizations partnering with a developer
Why Shura

Someone on Your Side of the Table

Planner and developer in one.
Led by a Registered Professional Planner (RPP) with developer-side experience taking commercial and residential projects through approvals and into development.
On your side.
We work for and represent the owner.
Plain language.
Advice you can act on.
You work with the founder.
The person you meet in the first conversation is the person who does the work.
“Better outcomes emerge when expertise meets collective wisdom.”
The Shura Principle

Start With the Ground Truth

Planning to build, buy or redevelop? Tell us about your site, or the site you are looking for, and what you hope to do.