I mean it when I tell you there is a new HRM development underway that is unlike any other. To begin with, the developer is unlike any I have spoken with before.

Yes, after writing about real estate and development for more than 12 years, I have met the most elusive of land developers — a woman.

There is a story and half in that fact, and also in the story of how Gail Penney became a land developer and conservationist, after the tender age of 45 —which is a fascinating tale for another time.