Projects & Clients: Commercial Real Esate

Shortlist of noteworthy Transactions

• Procured and represented the investment team that financed and developed “Franklin Hills Country Club and Estates,” a golf course and residential project containing more than 500 acres of land.
• Consultant in Land/Asset positioning to Mystic Entertainment Co., Inc., a sister company to Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration, the largest tourist attraction in Connecticut excluding Connecticut’s two casinos.
• Completed high-value leases including outdoor patios with two of the leading national public real estate companies Westfield America and General Growth, for properties in two major malls in Connecticut.
• Developed a 32-unit residential apartment complex that included acquisition, construction, subdivision and disposition. The project returned a 33% ROI for the principals, one of whom was Mr. Micali.
• Completed a long term anchor lease with Citi-Bank USA for a branch and office space. This lease was instrumental in solidifying a $15 million mixed use project.
• Completed five significant office leases with Yale University including a complex build to suit hybrid office/restoration/Lab space for rare books and papers of the world-renowned Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
• Represented Yale University on the purchase of a 160,000 square foot office property and completed a lease with the Yale Cancer Center.
• Consultant to a prominent family on a highest and best use analysis of a family owned land parcel; successfully created a plan that included a rezone of the property adding $6 million in incremental value.
• Completed an IRS 1031 Tax Exchange purchase of two retail properties in Florida and Georgia for $7 million saving client approximately $1,000,000 in Federal Taxes.
• Involved in 7,000 residential units either sold and/or being developed.
Represented Landlords and Tenants in millions of dollars of lease transactions to law firms, banks, retailers, biotech firms, computer mainframe switch stations.
• Represented landlord of a downtown CBD Class “A’ office project for 17 years.
Represented and consulting project with Sea Slope LLC in the development of a 1,500 unit mixed use development project.
• Completed the development and leasing of cell phone, pager, camera towers and antennas on signs and downtown office buildings with Verizon, AT&T, Page-net, T-mobile and WFSB Channel 3.
• Sold many multifamily, office properties and retail properties including a 180,000 Square foot Shopping Center, 3-building downtown office portfolio, and a 400 unit apartment portfolio.
• Consultant for the redevelopment of a 330,000 square foot former regional Hospital.

Short list Previous Clients and completed transactions

Deloitte & Touche, Yale University, Curagen Corporation, General Motors, Chili’s Bennigans, Mystic Entertainment, AT&T, United Way, Mystic Aquarium and the Institute for Exploration, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Verizon, T-Mobile, Nationwide Insurance, Black & Decker, State of Connecticut, SBC, Firestone Corporation, Matthews Ventures, Choice One Communications, Mystic Aquarium, West Marine, Urban Brands, Kinko’s, Cosi, Super Clubs, Corporate Image, and many other private firms, investors and companies.