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WHAT WE DO

Mantella is one of the largest Canadian privately held real estate development and investment companies based in Toronto, Canada. With its roots back to 1946, the company has built a prestigious portfolio of commercial properties across Ontario over the past 80 years.

Mantella currently specializes in industrial IPP, industrial/retail condominium conversions, commercial opportunistic value-add, and industrial ground-up new developments. It is the owner and property manager of over 1.6 million square feet of industrial assets in the Greater Toronto Area and Montreal.

Today, through Mantella Realty Partners Corporation, we are recognized as a world-class real estate development and investment platform, entrusted by our capital partners to act as a true fiduciary. We operate with the highest standards of integrity, accountability, and alignment of interest. Through rigorous risk management, disciplined execution and complete transparency in our decision-making, we are deeply focused on protecting invested capital while optimizing value creation.

Integrating a commitment to community is engrained into our corporate ethos. Mantella is deeply committed to philanthropy, making significant financial, time and resource contributions to the well-being of society.

Our mandate is clear: to deliver superior, risk-adjusted returns through ethical practices, strategic foresight, and unwavering stewardship of investor capital.

OUR STRATEGIES

Value Add Opportunities

Mantella’s value-add strategy targets industrial and select retail assets with strong underlying real estate fundamentals and lease expiry visibility.

By acquiring properties with in-place leases, we benefit from short-term income while actively repositioning the asset to capitalize on end-user demand or condominium unit sale premiums.

Through disciplined acquisition, strategic timing, severance capabilities, and decades of hands-on execution, we strive to deliver outsized risk-adjusted returns while preserving downside protection, utilizing three strategies: industrial/retail condominium conversions, leasehold to user dispositions, and value add repositioning.

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New Developments

Mantella’s new construction program focuses on developing purpose-built industrial condominium projects designed for modern business owners seeking long-term ownership of high-quality industrial space.

By targeting supply constrained GTA markets with strong owner-user demand, we deliver premium product differentiation, outsized exit values, and strategic capital deployment opportunities.

We acquire well-located, development ready land in the GTA core and construct contemporary industrial facilities configured into sellable condominium units.  This approach allows us to capture development profit margins, leverage pre-sale momentum, and benefit from phased exit strategies.

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Income Producing Properties

Mantella’s IPP strategy focuses on acquiring, developing, managing and optimizing high-quality industrial assets in strategic locations throughout the GTA with strong logistics connectivity and sustained tenant demand.

We target properties that offer durable cash flow, long leases with creditworthy tenants, and capital appreciation driven by limited supply, nearshoring, and e-commerce growth. Through disciplined underwriting and conservative leverage, we deliver institutional-grade returns with downside protection.

Industrial real estate benefits from resilient tenant fundamentals, inflation-hedging rent escalations, and stable long-term demand from logistics, light manufacturing, and distribution users.

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Past Projects

Over the past 80 years, Mantella’s integrated investment, development, sales & leasing, finance, and property management teams have successfully completed over 100 industrial/retail condominium conversion, leasehold to user sale, new development, repositioning, industrial/retail IPP, residential, and land value-creation projects.

We have leveraged these experiences to accelerate our evolution by sharpening our investment thesis, attracting top tier talent, and institutionalizing scalable systems and workflows.

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Giving Back

MANTELLA’S COMMUNITY
AND CHARITABLE INVOLVEMENT

Giving back to communities whether on a local or international platform has always been, and continues to be paramount to Robert and Sylvia Mantella and the Mantella Corporation.

Sylvia Mantella is dedicated to helping children and youth through her personal involvement in organizations such as Sick Kids Hospital, Boost Children and Youth  Mental Health Organization, Suzanne Rogers Presents benefiting The Covenant House Sex Trafficking Safe House.

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