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The Solaria is a new iconic 20 story luxury condominium located in riverdale. Riverdale is an enclave in New York City that has been and is home to many distinguished Americans.

Affiliates within the Arc group of companies entered into a long term acquisition contract, acquired adjoining excess development rights, assembled a team of advisors responsible for a significant share of high rise residential construction, and executed on the development plan. Along the way, to secure its entitlements it put in a foundation in 28 days and took the property through a BSA proceeding to vest its development rights.

Acres of rolling hills, meadows, ponds, and woodlands with virtually endless white sand beaches, two championship golf courses and an unsurpassed list of upscale amenities on coastal New England, New Seabury is the largest resort on Cape Cod. Members of the Arc team helped negotiate a management leveraged buyout.

Affiliates within the Arc group of companies tied up in 1992 - one of the largest, well–located, underdeveloped parcels in Manhattan. After eliminating an encumbering land lease and consolidating the ownership, members of the Arc team - rezoned the property from a manufacturing designation to a general commercial designation permitting commercial, retail, residential and parking uses, and prepared plans for an approximately 1.4 million square feet mixed–use project that was ready for fast–track construction. Before construction commenced, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York took the property by eminent domain.

Members of the Arc team, lead the negotiations which took the site on which this center is built from an undevelopable ground lease with underperforming assets and turned it into a lease that could be developed for the benefit of the government agency lessor and the lessee. In a subsequent phase, members of the Arc team dealt with several major shopping center developers before concluding a joint venture with Taubman for a major upscale retail mall development that opened in 2001. Office sites were sold or joint ventured to other participants on the favorable ground lease.

International Plaza, adjacent to Tampa International Airport, is the most distinctive shopping and dining destination on Florida's West Coast. Four fashionable department stores, over 200 specialty shops and Bay Street at the Plaza, an open-air village of fine restaurants and small boutique.

Members of the Arc team lead negotiations and financing efforts that lead to the first and largest turnkey development deal for the State of New York. Members of the team spearheaded all aspects of the development. When they first became involved, the core property was in foreclosure, and trade creditors were threatening bankruptcy proceedings. The team acquired trade creditor claims and refinanced the senior debt avoiding bankruptcy, assembled contiguous parcels, obtained additional financing, and concluded transactions with architects, engineers, contractors, and end users to bring the award winning project to completion.

Members of the Arc team identified with a joint venturer property which had formerly been a Marriot hotel at JFK, one of the leading airports in the United States. The building was not in service and its redevelopment had stalled as a result of a falling out between the partners. The property had been on the market and several deals had fallen through. The sellers would not entertain a contract and allow rigorous due diligence until a nonrefundable deposit was put up. Having done independent due diligence and determined that it was worth the risk, the joint venture tied up the property and secured an extended contract. Plans were made for the repositioning of the property. At the closing, two disappointed bidders surfaced and offered 50% more than the contract price secured by the joint venture. The property was resold for a substantial profit shortly after it was acquired.

Members of the Arc team with a joint venture partner approached a money center bank to acquire a property that had been taken back in foreclosure. The team negotiated the acquisition, financed the repositioning of the property and resold the hotel portion of the asset to the Wyndham organization for the Wyndham Gardens at LaGuardia Airport.

Members of the Arc team advised a group of nationally prominent investors on dealing with a multi–faceted 8,000 acre development in Fort Myers, Florida known as Bay Beach and Estero Island, They and helped the group maintain ownership after termination of funding by the groups prime lender. Their role grew to the point of running the project in the final stages of a debt restructure that got the investors out whole with significant upside as opposed to walking away from significant investments with no recovery

Members of the Arc team joint ventured the acquisition and financing of a partially occupied apartment building occupying a prominent place along an ocean front block in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The team emptied the building without incident and repositioned it as a time share resort after rezoning the property. The property was sold to Fairfield Resorts

Members of the Arc team joint ventured an unsuccessful bid for this rent stabilized apartment building in Manhattan with ground floor retail. Having maintained strong relationships with the brokers on the transaction when the brokers received a call that contract negotiations had broken off, the brokers offered the team the opportunity to take over the deal provided they went to contract in 24 hours. The team met the deadline. Subsequently, the team converted the building to condominium ownership, cashed out investors in less than three years and retained a significant number of apartments as well as valuable Third Avenue retail space.