DONOR Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman
TITLE CEO, Onex Corp., and CEO, Chapters Indigo.
GIFT Lead gift for Schwartz/Reisman Centre
Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman will see their names on the newest development within the UJA’s most ambitious undertaking yet, the sprawling Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus, located on fifty acres at Bathurst and Rutherford.
The local husband-and-wife power couple is better known by their business credentials than by their names: Schwartz was a cofounder of CanWest and, later, the private equity investment firm Onex Corporation, and Reisman is the founder and Chief Executive of Indigo Books.They were the lead donors for the new phase of the site’s development project.
According to the UJA, the 100,000 square foot facility will include recreational, educational and social resources.
“The Schwartz/Reisman Centre, at the heart of this amazing [Joseph and Wolf Lebovic] campus, will be a resource—a beacon—for community members of all ages and interests,” Schwartz said in a statement earlier this year.