Development
Headquartered in New York City, Paramount Group, Inc. is a fully integrated real estate investment trust that owns, operates, manages, acquires, and redevelops high-quality, Class A office properties located in New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. As a vertically integrated enterprise, Paramount offers an experienced in-house team of commercial real estate professionals across all facets of its business, including asset management, leasing, acquisitions, redevelopment, and financing. The senior management team, led by Chairman, CEO, and President Albert Behler, is highly regarded in the industry for its proven track record of success.
Investment
Founded in 1993, SRE Group Ltd. was listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd. in 1999 and became a member enterprise of CMIG Jiaye under the China Minsheng Investment Group in 2015. After more than 20 years of development and growth, SRE Group Ltd. has successfully made footprints with a number of high-end residential and mixed-use projects in more than 20 major cities, including London, San Francisco, Sydney, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. In accordance with the concept of “Finance + Industry + Real Estate” integration, and to accelerate the enterprise transformation progress, SRE Group Ltd. implements a dual-driven strategy of real estate investment and development to gradually build three core businesses: financial city complex development and characteristic town development, as well as asset mergers and acquisitions.
Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is one of the leading architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban planning firms in the world. Since its founding more than 80 years ago, SOM has earned a reputation for design excellence with a portfolio that includes some of the most important architectural accomplishments of the 20th and 21st centuries. It has been a leader in the research and development of specialized technologies, new processes, and innovative ideas, many of which have had a palpable and lasting impact on the design profession and physical environment. The firm’s long-standing leadership in design and building technology has been honored with nearly 2,000 awards for quality, innovation, and management. The American Institute of Architects has recognized SOM twice with its highest honor—the Architecture Firm Award—in 1962 and again in 1996. The firm maintains offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Seattle, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai, and Mumbai.
Interior Design
Rottet Studio is an international architecture and design firm with an extensive portfolio of corporate, residential, and hospitality projects for the world’s leading companies and brands. In the last decade, Founder Lauren Rottet, FAIA, FIIDA, has developed Rottet Studio into one of the finest interior design practices in the United States, recently recognized as one of the Top 3 Most Admired Design Firms in the World, the WBE-certified firm boasts more than 40 million square feet of built design and a vast array of award-winning projects and furniture designs. The firm’s principals have worked together for as many as 35 years offering a broad range of services including architecture and interior design, furniture design, graphic design, product design, branding, and art selection.
Builder
Since 1888, Swinerton has been recognized as one of the nation’s top contractors, renowned for a commitment to lead with integrity, passion, and excellence that has allowed Swinerton to reach new heights in construction quality, technology, and sustainability. Their passion for building, combined with over 130 years of forward-thinking solutions, allows the company to remain at the forefront of the industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, Swinerton has 17 offices across the country, with a market sector expertise in multi-family residential, retail, commercial, hospitality, aviation, critical facilities, education, healthcare, government, parking structures, mass timber, and renewable energy. Swinerton is ranked the #1 Top Contractor for the past five years by ENR California and is a 100% employee-owned company.
Marketing
Polaris Pacific is the West Coast leader in high-density real estate sales and marketing. Leveraging insight and foresight, they deliver unparalleled experiences in major urban markets including Northern and Southern California, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.
Bringing a global expertise to SOM’s San Francisco office, Craig Hartman has been recognized with over 200 awards for design including 10 National Honor Awards, the highest honor for individual project design bestowed by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Notable projects include SFO’s International Terminal, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Harvard University’s Northwest Science Building, Oakland’s Cathedral of Christ the Light, the new Los Angeles Federal Courthouse, the 2019 expansion of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, multiple international urban towers and entire urban districts such as the Beijing Finance Street—China’s “Wall Street”—the expansion of the city of Guangzhou, and the masterplan to transform San Francisco’s Treasure Island.
With over 40 million square feet of experience, Lauren Rottet has created beautifully engaging interiors for several elite residential projects, such as New York’s Central Park Tower, as well as many of the Fortune 100 Companies, including Goldman Sachs, Disney, and GE, elevating herself to one of the most celebrated interior architects in the world today. She is the only woman in history to be elevated to Fellow status by both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the International Interior Design Association.