Principals
Robert A. Kaplan
Robert A. Kaplan has more than 15 years experience financing, developing and operating real estate, with a particular focus on housing and mixed-use properties that contain a commercial component. Mr. Kaplan's expertise spans both rental apartments--market rate, government-assisted, and mixed income--as well as for-sale luxury condominiums. His product portfolio is similarly broad, and includes everything from walk-up apartments to renovated lofts to luxury high-rise rentals.
Prior to founding Ansonia Properties, Mr. Kaplan was a founding principal of Everest Partners, where he was responsible for all facets of the acquisition, financing, construction and marketing of projects undertaken by the firm. Notable among them was the acquisition of a non-performing mortgage note on a downtown Chicago high-rise, which interest was ultimately converted to ownership of the property as part of its successful repositioning. Also significant was the adaptive re-use of the Florsheim Shoe Company headquarters office into the first residential condominium in Chicago's Loop, now known as Metropolitan Place.
Previously, Mr. Kaplan was President of Ark Properties, Inc. The company was engaged in transactions valued at more than $100 million as a development principal, provider of turnkey development services, and as an advisor to owners in the structuring and placement of equity and debt financing. The company specialized in structuring layered financing, characteristically including a mix of equity raised from the syndication of historic or low-income housing tax credits, market rate and subordinated mortgage loans, tax increment financing, enterprise zone benefits or real estate tax abatements.
Mr. Kaplan began his real estate career with Related Capital Corporation, the real estate finance and acquisition arm of The Related Companies, where he was a senior acquisition officer. On behalf of public limited partnerships sponsored by Related, Mr. Kaplan structured and negotiated the acquisition of more than 2,000 apartments in 17 states. Mr. Kaplan also initiated Related Capital's participation in selected projects as a joint venture development partner.
Mr. Kaplan received a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Public Policy, both from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Tufts University.