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completion. She found she liked the challenge. A lot of people in the de- velopment industry then, AKA men, didn't take her too seriously. Until it became clear to them that she was the one deciding to pay their structural engineering invoice or agree to their contract terms. But things changed slowly. After moving from Habitat to a receptionist job at Bastion De- velopment in 1997, she became Developing Interest You don't often hear about women in Vancouver's real estate development industry, but they're playing a vital role by Frances Bula L A N D VA LU E S ADAM BLASBERG ( the informer ) MAY/JUNE 2023 BCBUSINESS.CA 15 K im Maust had zero dreams of becoming a major player in the real estate world when she was a girl or even in her more grown-up 20s. Back then, she, in her words, "married a Mennonite boy and part of the culture was voluntary service." She worked on Habitat for Human- ity housing projects in Ontario, then ended up in Vancouver wrassling a particularly dif- ficult development—a large apartment building with retail on the bottom at Charles Street and Commercial Drive—into BUILDING BLOCKS VP of Conwest Developments Kim Maust is excited to see more women moving into the industry