Real estate in service of your mission
PaperDolls helps public institutions turn their land, buildings, and operations into lasting revenue, with the full value of what they bring recognized.
Why PaperDolls Development?
PaperDolls exists to close a gap in the market. Many institutions hold significant real estate portfolios without the internal capacity, commercial expertise, or private-sector relationships to unlock their full value.
We bridge that gap. We work as an embedded extension of your team, helping you navigate the strategy, transactions, and ongoing oversight of your real estate.
What We Do
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A clear plan for how your land, buildings, brand, and operations can fund what your institution exists to do. Built around your mission, with a clear path from plan to execution.
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We evaluate, structure, and negotiate transactions and partnerships that keep your priorities at the centre and stay attractive to the market. Every structure is tested before it goes to market.
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We work alongside your team through development, operations, and the life of the asset, so it continues to deliver value for your institution.
There is no mission without resources.
We speak both languages.
We are a team who has the experience and expertise you need.
Public institutions exist to teach, heal, serve, and move society forward. All of it depends on reliable funding. Handled well, your land, buildings, and operations can become a consistent source of it.
Institutions think in terms of their mission. Private capital thinks in returns. We translate between the two, so strategies, transactions, and operating platforms move forward rather than stall.
Our team has executed real estate on both the public and private sides, across strategy, investment, development, asset management, and operations. We stay to help you implement, because we’ve done it before.
See how we have helped other public institutions put their real estate to work
University of Toronto
Queens University
Western University
University of Guelph
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