Empire is an independent private partnership of investment professionals with hands-on experience and capital market expertise. Empire professionals have overseen extensive investments and joint ventures and have invested with a focus on commercial real estate through a broad range of opportunistic investments. Empire professionals have built a successful track record across multiple asset classes and market cycles. Empire’s professionals are a high energy, results oriented team, allowing us to carefully analyze and act quickly as circumstances warrant.
Empire professionals have structured complex real estate investments and joint ventures establishing a strong track record across multiple asset classes.
Empire’s approach targets both income-producing and opportunistic assets in New York City, both independently and as participants in joint venture opportunities.
Strategy
Income Producing Opportunities
Empire invests in income-producing assets with the following characteristics:
High-Quality/Creditworthy Tenancy
Future Conversion or Repositioning Potential
Sale-Leaseback Arrangements
Transitioning submarkets with statistical and circumstantial evidence suggesting significant growth
Assets with inefficient management requiring new leasing strategies, active management, physical capital improvements, and opportunities to renegotiate undervalued leases
Unique architectural features or historical significance
Value-Add Opportunities
Empire also executes conversions and repositioning projects to realize the highest and best use of an asset, including:
Opportunities to bifurcate mixed-use assets to sell the retail, residential or office components in separate transactions while retaining others at a reduced basis
Distressed assets requiring an expedited sale due to external circumstances
Acquisition of existing assets for conversion below replacement cost
Repositioning existing assets to realize highest and best use
Development assemblage opportunities (simultaneous transactions with multiple owners of adjacent lots)
Acquisition of loans
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Industry
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Commercial Real Estate
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Company size
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2-10 employees
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Headquarters
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New York, New York
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Type
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Privately Held
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Founded
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2004
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Specialties
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Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions and Real Estate Investment