Alexandra De Gasperis is Vice President of DECO Communities, a land development company born of the family-run TACC Group, one of Canada’s largest builders in construction and infrastructure. DECO specializes in master-planned communities across the Greater Toronto Area and Eastern Ontario, where Alexandra brings together a love of community building, arts, and culture with real attention to how people want to live. Building on a nearly five-decade family legacy, she founded DECO to create something of her own. Master planned communities that carry a contemporary, design-forward sensibility in everything from the architecture to the parks, public spaces, and interiors, and they are built to be sustainable, resilient, and suited to every stage of life.

Alexandra leads DECO’s planning and development, guided by a belief that the best communities are designed around the people who live in them. Earlier in her career she practiced law at Kagan Shastri LLP in land use planning, development, and municipal law, working on cases that helped shape Ontario’s planning landscape and earning mention dozens of times in Novae Res Urbis.

Alexandra believes that community building does not stop at her development work. Alexandra’s community involvement began at a young age when she co-founded and became Executive Director of the Burgundy Brick Foundation (BBF) in 2007, supporting affordable housing and efforts to end youth homelessness across Ontario. Alexandra served as a Director on the Ontario Arts Council Board and currently sits on the board of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation.

Passionate about city building, art, and design, Alexandra believes these fields have to work together to create communities where people truly thrive.