1099 Kingston Rd, Pickering, Ontario
Established 1974 · Toronto

Private commercial real estate ownership, asset management, and investment. Quietly building value for over five decades.

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Who We Are

Built to be owned, not traded.

Emix Ltd. is a privately held commercial real estate firm rooted in Toronto since 1974. We acquire, manage, and operate properties with a multi-generational perspective, favouring patience, discretion, and operational excellence over visibility.

Our portfolio spans office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use assets across the Greater Toronto Area. We manage nearly every property directly, with our own people on the ground, maintaining the hands-on stewardship that has defined our approach for over fifty years.

We invest from our own balance sheet, not a fund. Our permanent capital allows us to be patient on price and decisive on quality.

50+
Years Operating
9
Buildings
460K
Square Feet
130
Tenancies
8
Properties
GTA
Market Focus

Portfolio figures are approximate

164 Bentworth Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
1974

Over five decades of quiet conviction.

Emix began in 1974 as a family importing business that grew into a respected furniture enterprise, developing the commercial buildings that housed it. Two of those original buildings remain in the portfolio today.

In 2004 the next generation took the reins, rebuilt the company on a modern operating footing, and grew the portfolio to what it is now: a focused set of durable assets, run by a small senior team with institutional discipline.

Privately held. Directly managed. Built to endure.

We acquire with discipline and hold with conviction.
The Emix Philosophy

The Platform

Four disciplines, one standard.

I.

Real Estate Ownership

Long-term holdings across office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use assets, with direct experience in acquisition, leasing, financing, and development.
II.

Asset & Property Management

We actively oversee what we own. Close tenant relationships, clear reporting and long-range capital planning define our approach. We think in decades, not quarters.
III.

Principal Investment

Selective and patient. We pursue opportunities where our operating expertise creates advantages that others overlook.
IV.

Operating Systems

AI-forward by design. A modern, paperless office where AI is built into how we underwrite, report and make decisions. It is why a team this size operates at this standard.

Portfolio

Office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use. GTA.

Nine buildings on eight properties. Asset managed in-house; nearly all property managed by our own team.

1099 Kingston Rd, Pickering, Ontario

Office & Retail Campus

1099 Kingston Road

Pickering, Ontario

Developed by Emix in 1989, our flagship Pickering office and retail plaza, known locally as the Dairy Queen Plaza, with a broad mix of national, regional, and local businesses.

1097 Kingston Road, Pickering, Ontario

Retail

1097 Kingston Road

Pickering, Ontario

Fully renovated by Emix in 2017, this two-restaurant property forms part of our Kingston Road cluster alongside 1099 and 1101.

1027 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario

Office & Retail

1027 Yonge Street

Toronto, Ontario

Midtown Toronto at Yonge and Roxborough. Our newest acquisition.

345 Kingston Road, Pickering, Ontario

Office

345 Kingston Road

Pickering, Ontario

A boutique three-storey office building serving a longstanding mix of local businesses and professional firms in Pickering.

8400 Woodbine Avenue, Markham, Ontario

Mixed-Use

8400 Woodbine Avenue

Markham, Ontario

Developed by Emix in 1984 and recently transformed into a modern Access Storage facility, alongside approximately 24,000 square feet dedicated to community employment and training services.

1101 Kingston Road, Pickering, Ontario

Medical Office & Retail

1101 Kingston Road

Pickering, Ontario

Developed by Emix in 2004, 1101 Kingston Road brings together a complementary mix of medical, professional, fitness, and neighbourhood retail uses, including a long-established pharmacy. These uses serve the surrounding community and complement the dining options across the Kingston Road cluster.

1101B Kingston Road, Pickering, Ontario

Retail

1101B Kingston Road

Pickering, Ontario

Developed by Emix in 2015, this free-standing retail building is home to four restaurants and complements the adjacent 1101 and 1099 properties.

164 Bentworth Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Office & Showroom

164 Bentworth Avenue

Toronto, Ontario

Head office of Emix Ltd.

895 Sandy Beach Road, Pickering, Ontario

Industrial

895 Sandy Beach Road

Pickering, Ontario

Industrial property near the Pickering waterfront. It rounds out our Pickering holdings alongside the Kingston Road cluster.

The Team

A small team, for a long time.

The people you will actually deal with. The person who signs your lease is the person who answers the phone three years later, and the people who own the buildings are the people who operate them. Between them, the group below has more than seventy-five years at Emix.

Head office · Toronto

Christian Hepfer

Christian Hepfer

Principal & President

Since 2004

Christian is the second generation to run Emix. He took over the operating company in 2004 and rebuilt it around permanent capital and a small senior team. He sets acquisition, financing and capital strategy.
Paul McCluskey

Paul McCluskey

Chief Financial Officer

With Emix since 2017

Paul is responsible for finance across every ownership entity in the portfolio: reporting, budgeting, debt and the relationships with our lenders and co-ownership partners. He built the reporting the business now runs on, and he is who our advisers deal with on anything structural.
Giuseppe Poto

Giuseppe Poto

Controller

With Emix since 2025

Giuseppe runs the accounting engine of the portfolio: the ledgers, payables and month-end close across every ownership entity. He is a large part of why the numbers we report are right the first time.
Kelly Augusto

Kelly Augusto

Accounting & Operations Specialist

With Emix since 2021

Kelly is where the portfolio's day-to-day actually happens: tenant billing and collections, insurance compliance, vendor coordination and the property records behind all of it. For most tenants and suppliers, she is the first call and the fastest answer.
Corrine Coleman

Corrine Coleman

Accounting & Administrative Coordinator

With Emix since 2026

Corrine supports weekly vendor payables, credit card processing, invoice coding and approval routing, tenant insurance records and vendor onboarding across the portfolio.

On site · Pickering & Markham

Greg Melong

Greg Melong

Property Manager

With Emix since 2007

Greg runs the buildings. He is on site across the Pickering and Markham properties most days: trades, maintenance, capital projects and the tenant relationships that come with them. When we say we manage our own properties, Greg is what that means in practice.
Don Van Hout

Don Van Hout

Building Operations

With Emix since 2017

Don keeps the Pickering buildings in condition day to day: repairs, seasonal work and the small things tenants notice before anyone else does. He works alongside Greg across the Kingston Road properties.
Iqbal Sihra

Iqbal Sihra

Building Operations

With Emix since 2011

Iqbal has been on our sites for fifteen years. He works across the Kingston Road properties on maintenance and building systems, and is a large part of why tenants there rarely have to ask twice.

Leasing

Space availability, new leases and renewals.

leasing@emixprop.com

Property management

Building and tenant matters at our properties.

propertymanagement@emixprop.com

General

Everything else.

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