Business View Magazine | September 2019

164 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 1.877.497.1996 www.wallwinintegratedsystems.com www.cannabissecuritysystems.ca An Industry Leader in Video Management Systems • Perimeter Security Video Surveillance • Access Control • Security Monitoring From concept, design, installation and maintenance, you can trust the experts at Wallwin with securing your facility and meeting regulations. Past projects range from 10,000 SqFt to 700,000 SqFt. conditions. We operate in areas where there are no ready-made solutions. This includes areas where the policy and regulatory framework is unclear or has not been properly defined; a new or emerging building typology, which is without local precedent; unique construction technologies; or innovative ways to address housing affordability issues. So, we take a different approach in the planning and design process. “We also bring together different parties into what might otherwise be considered unlikely alliances. We help stakeholders find the benefit in working together to achieve common or overlapping objectives, where they may not otherwise be realized, and to help them identify a path forward to achieving those objectives. A recent example of that: we worked with the City of Toronto, Metrolinx and a landowner to negotiate the redevelopment of Mimico GO Station. That process was about leveraging the opportunity of partnering in order to help finance transit infrastructure, achieve desirable public benefits and, in the process, realize additional development potential.” Company Principal, Sony Rai, agrees. “It’s that overlapping of work between the private and public sector and understanding each of their needs and demands,” he proffers. “We’re able to bring a perspective that is appreciated by both clients.” Recently, the company has been working with new entrants into the emerging cannabis industry in Canada. “Our involvement with the industry began with planning work for Med Relief about three years ago,” Rai recounts. “They were our first client within the sector. They came to us because they were looking to purchase certain properties in different jurisdictions and they wanted to understand what the approvals process was to be able to build the types of facilities they were thinking about. That was our first foray into understanding the beginning of that industry - through the municipal and approvals lens and larger scale development. It was new both for us