Owner’s Representative in Markham, ON
Markham Owner’s Representation
Markham owners come to Myhal Construction when a project needs someone senior on their side of the table: a technology campus on Warden Avenue, a tower beside Unionville GO or a distribution building on the 404. We take the consultants, the contractor and the City’s review off your desk and give you a clear view of cost and schedule every week.
We hold no construction contract and never bid the work we oversee, so the advice you get is the advice you paid for. Kyle Parry leads every engagement personally, with more than twenty years at PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties behind him. Call and we will tell you plainly what your project needs.
Construction Project Management in Markham, ON
Construction project management in Markham means running the whole file: procurement, contracts, changes, payment certification, the City’s site plan and permit reviews, York Region and TRCA conditions, and the reporting your board or lender expects. We have done this on occupied office towers, live shopping centres and multi-level industrial buildings.
Markham and Stouffville owners typically bring us work like this:
- Office, research and technology buildings in Markham Centre and along the Highway 7 and Woodbine corridors
- High-rise residential and mixed-use at Unionville GO and in Markham Centre
- Industrial buildings on the 404 corridor, in the Markham Innovation Exchange lands and in Stouffville’s Vandorf and Gormley employment areas
- Institutional work: healthcare, post-secondary and municipal facilities
- Projects that have stalled in approvals or lost their schedule
Our Services in Markham. Every service, one senior team.
Some Markham owners need one review; others need the project run end to end. Any of these five can be the first call.
Owner’s representation
Senior, independent representation on Markham projects, from a technology building on the 404 to a tower at Unionville GO.
Owner’s representation →Construction project management
The weekly running of your Markham project: procurement, contracts, changes, City and Region reviews, and a report you can hand to your board.
Construction project management →Development management
Land, feasibility, approvals and financing for Markham and Stouffville owners with a site and no development team.
Development management →Construction consulting & estimating
Independent estimates priced to York Region trade rates, so a Markham pro forma holds at tender.
Construction consulting & estimating →Preconstruction planning
Budget, schedule, procurement and approvals sequencing set before anything is committed, so site plan approval and the building permit arrive together.
Preconstruction planning →Construction Problems in Markham, ON. What to do if your project is stuck in site plan approval
Ontario’s statutory clock for site plan approval is 60 days; the province-wide average is closer to 23 months. If your Markham application has gone quiet, here is how to get it moving.
Find out exactly where the file sits
Ask for the circulation status by department: Planning, Engineering, Urban Design, York Region, TRCA and the utilities. A stuck application usually has one or two open comments holding everything else. Until you know which, you are guessing.
Separate real comments from repeat comments
Resubmissions stall when a consultant answers a comment without resolving it. Put the architect, the civil engineer and the planner in one room and settle every open item before the next upload to ePLAN.
Work the parallel paths
Conditional permits, servicing agreements, TRCA permits and early tender packages can all move while the approval finishes, so approval day is the start of construction, not another wait.
Bring in representation
An owner’s representative who has carried files through municipal review knows which meetings to ask for and which conditions to negotiate. Call 647-932-2902 and we will review the application, name what is holding it and give you a plan to get it through.
Markham requires a pre-application consultation before it will accept a site plan application, and issues a submission checklist afterwards. Miss anything on that checklist and the application is deemed incomplete, so the statutory clock never starts.
Markham, Ontario Construction Project Management
Markham is the largest municipality in York Region, about 35 minutes from our Toronto office. It issued a record $2.19 billion of building permits in 2024, more than half again its ten-year average, then 504 industrial, commercial and institutional permits in 2025, up 27 per cent. Roughly a fifth of the permit value is non-residential, a higher share than most GTA suburbs.
The centre of gravity is moving to Markham Centre. York University’s ten-storey, 400,000-square-foot campus opened beside Unionville GO in 2024, and Metropia’s UnionCity is rising next to it with towers of 36, 40 and 44 storeys. York Region begins widening Kennedy Road between Highway 407 and Highway 7 for bus rapid transit in 2027. To the north-east, the 1,920-acre Markham Innovation Exchange beside the 404 is the largest unbuilt block of greenfield employment land in the Toronto region, and Whitchurch-Stouffville is rezoning land at Vandorf for industry. Markham Stouffville Hospital, which doubled in size a decade ago, is planning for more capacity again.
For an owner, building here means a City review under Comprehensive Zoning By-law 2024-19, a York Region development charge that fell for every class of development on May 21, 2026, including an 11 per cent cut for industrial, office and institutional buildings, and a TRCA permit wherever the Rouge or its tributaries come near the site. We have carried projects through reviews like these at PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties.
Work like yours. Delivered at PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties, and the discipline we bring to Markham.
Scarborough Junction
A $3B, 26-acre master-planned community anchored at Scarborough GO Station — 7,655 approved homes across a dozen towers up to 58 storeys, with new parkland, community amenities and full environmental remediation. Led all preconstruction planning and activities.
Riverbend Business Park — Building 5
Canada’s first large-scale multi-level industrial building — 707,000 SF over two full levels, with heated-ramp trailer access to the upper floor. Fully leased to Amazon. Construction management, 2022.
1133 Melville — The Stack
Vancouver’s tallest office tower and North America’s first new zero-carbon high-rise office building — 37 storeys and ~550,000 SF of AAA workplace, with a stacked-box design, post-tensioned structure and triple-glazed curtainwall. Oversight of all preconstruction and construction, completed 2023.
Kyle Parry. Directly, on every engagement.
Kyle founded Myhal after more than twenty years leading construction for PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties, with over $3 billion delivered across office, residential, retail and industrial projects in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia.
Owners in Markham work with Kyle, not with an account team. More about Myhal.
Questions owners ask us about building in Markham.
Have you delivered a project in Markham?
Not yet as Myhal. Our experience was built at PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties on projects such as Scarborough Junction, the TD Centre and Riverbend Business Park, and that discipline is what we bring to Markham.
How much does an owner’s representative cost for a Markham project?
A modest percentage of construction value or a fixed monthly fee, sized to the project and its stage. Call 647-932-2902 and we will give you a number for your project.
Can you help with Markham’s site plan approval process?
Yes. We manage the consultants who prepare the submission, track every department’s comments and keep the approval tied to your budget and schedule. If a file is already stuck, we start by finding out which comments are holding it.
Do you work in Stouffville, Unionville and Thornhill?
All of them, along with Milliken, Cornell and the 404 employment lands, and Whitchurch-Stouffville, Richmond Hill and Vaughan from the same office. See where we work.
Building in Markham? Call before the numbers are locked in.
Owner’s representation and construction project management in Markham, Ontario. 35 minutes from our Toronto office.