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Diamond Corp. is a Toronto-
based real estate development
company devoted to develop-
ing innovative and award-win-
ning residential andmixed-use
projects of the highest qual-
ity. During its short history,
the company has become an
industry leader in the Toronto
Area. Diamond Corp. is a part
of the Whitecastle group of
companies and serves as the
manager of the Whitecastle
New Urban Fund 1 and 2. The
goal of the Whitecastle Fund
is to find challenging sites and
create opportunities to devel-
op them with our expertise in
the planning process and then
develop the property.
Bob Blazevski is the Executive
Vice President of Diamond
Corp. He has over 25 years of
land development experience
with some of the top develop-
ers in the GTA, andhe has per-
sonally managed over fifty dif-
ferent major land development
projects in the GTA. Through-
out his career Bob has been
a member of several notable
industry land development
committees, including the
Board of Trade Development
Committee, Board of Direc-
tors of the Greater Toronto
Home Builders’ Association,
and the Mayor’s Roundtable
for the Environment.
Land, especially in a major
metropolitan area like Toron-
to, is increasingly becoming
scarce. How can a real-estate
development company sur-
vive in such a climate? Better
yet, how can they, in Bob’s
