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Challenger Cities EP70: Building a Village in the Sky with Anson Kwok
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- Challenger Cities
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- Mar 16, 2026
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- 3261
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Summary
Anson Kwok has spent fourteen years building Canada's tallest tower at the foot of Yonge Street. As VP of Sales and Marketing at Pinnacle International, he's had a front row seat to how Toronto has transformed from a city of downtown parking lots to one of the most dense urban skylines in North America. We talk about what it actually takes to build a vertical city inside a city that wasn't designed for one, why the rules written for 20-storey buildings don't survive contact with a 106-storey one, and what patience has to do with getting any of it right.