LABEL & CO. Real Estate Solutions

Many developers, builders, landowners, and financial institutions are increasingly faced with owning, operating and or developing real estate in a different environment than was initially contemplated. At Label & Co. Real Estate Solutions we are uniquely qualified to fill those roles with a core team that has achieved unparalleled success in South Florida over the last 25 years. The company applies its ownership mentality and vertically integrated approach to assist clients with their real estate related needs. The services include:

• Aquisition and Disposition Advisory Services
• Investment Analysis and Strategic Review
• Land Use/Entitlement/Zoning
• Repositioning and Redesigning existing Assets, Master Plans, Site Layouts and  Architectural Plans
• Development and/or Construction Management
• Formulation/Implementation of New Leasing and Marketing Plans
• Sales and Leasing Management
• Project and/or Corporate Turnaround
• Project and/or Corporate Restructuring
• Lender Negotiation
• Debt Restructuring

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THE TEAM
Harry L. Posin, Founder and President of LABEL & CO. Real Estate Solutions
Mr. Posin is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable and capable builder/developers in South Florida residential real estate. From 1976 to 1983 he was with Goodkin Research, one of the leading Real Estate Research firms in the country. As Senior Vice President he provided market consultaion sevices to developers, builders and lenders throughout America. For the last 25 years, he has been Executive Vice President and then President of Minto Communities, one of the largest private builders in Florida. He was also on the Canadian-based parent company’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Posin’s vision has been responsibile for the development and building of over 20,000 units in every imaginable residential format, including:
Gary Clement, Managing Director Construction Management Services
Mr. Clement joined Minto in 1977 in Ottawa and moved to Florida with the company shortly thereafter. He was the senior executive responsible for the company’s estimating, purchasing, and subcontractor functions for over 30 years. He was directly involved with the coordination of all design and engineering professionals to ensure the value engineering function produced homes that were geared for optimum construction efficiency while maintaining design integrity. Mr. Clement also spearheaded the company’s quality control and customer satisfaction efforts resulting in Minto being ranked number one in customer satisfaction by JD Powers in the Palm Beaches for 2008 and number three in the category nationwide.

Craig Unger PE, Managing Director Entitlement, Planning & Engineering Services
For over 20 years Mr. Unger was responsible for the land planning, land development, engineering, entitlement, governmental relations and due diligence for all Minto communities in Florida. In particular Mr. Unger has exceptional experience with complex  DRI approvals as well as sophisticated traffic modeling techniques. Prior to joining Minto Mr. Unger owned and operated a civil engineering firm that offered design and construction management services to private and public sector clients.

Patricia M. Blasi, Senior Managing Director - Commercial Development
Ms. Blasi has over 20 years experience in the development, management, acquisition, disposition, financing, repositioning and sale of commercial real estate assets. She most recently served as President of Borghese Investments, LLC, an advisor to commercial real estate owners and investors and the Chief Investment Officer of Calamar Capital Services, LLC, a group that raises private equity real estate funds. Previously, she was a partner at Panattoni Development Company, where she developed $100 Million of retail, industrial and land assets.

Formerly, Ms. Blasi was the President of Terranova Corporation, Florida’s largest third-party commercial real estate advisory firm where she was responsible for overseeing a $1.5 billion portfolio of commercial properties. Prior to joining Terranova, Blasi was with Coral Gables based Codina Group for nearly 10 years serving in various capacities including President of Codina Development and President of Codina Real Estate Management, where she oversaw $500 million in development projects and over 12 million square feet of operating assets. Blasi also previously worked in retail real estate with The Balcor Company and The Edward J. De Bartolo Corporation. Active in industry organizations, Blasi serves on several boards of both the International Council of Shopping Centers and NAIOP, and is a frequent speaker at real estate conferences.

Maurice Gruber, Senior Managing Director - Commercial Research 
For the past 30 years, Maurice Gruber has specialized in commercial real estate marketing analysis,marketing strategy and feasibility studies; site selection, economic and demographic analysis and marketing research. Mr.Gruber also provides marketing and economic related expert witness testimony and litigation support for both condemnors and condemnees in eminent domain cases, and marketing support involving zoning and land use changes.

Mr. Gruber’s consulting encompasses a wide variety of real estate uses and businesses such as retail/shopping centers, restaurants, entertainment, office, warehouse/industrial, auto dealers, gas stations/convenience stores, hotels and mixed-use developments.

Maurice Gruber was a member of the Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and an Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, where he taught Marketing Management and Marketing Research.

Gretchen Stoudt, Managing Director Sales & Sales Training
Starting in 1980 at Minto’s first major community, the Township, Ms. Stoudt quickly rose to be recognized as a top new home sales person in South Florida. She has sold and marketed products ranging from single family to active adult to condominiums. Over the years she has trained the majority of sales personnel that worked for Minto and became known as the sales voice of the company. It is estimated that she has sold over $750 million of real estate.

Arthur Low, Creative Director & Wordsmith
Mr. Low has developed advertising campaigns and collateral material for a variety of industries around the world. He and Mr. Posin have collaborated on every Minto community in Florida since 1989 and also worked together on certain projects in Canada. In terms of industry recognition, Arthur Low has won far more national awards than any other copywriter in Florida, including two “Best of Shows” and dozens of ANDYs in the New York ANDY Awards competition and numerous Gold and Silver awards in both the national One Show competition and the national ADDY Award Show.

Michelle Vredevoogd, Art Director
Ms. Vredevoogd has 20 years of diversified design experience in the marketing and advertising field working as an award winning Art Director. Michelle’s focus is creating innovative solutions to advertising and marketing initiatives based on competitive research. She has been published in PRINT’s Design Annual, Identity Magazine, The American Corporate Design Annual, Creativity 12, The Best Post Card Graphics and has several awards for her work in Marketing & Trade Show Display, Health Care Marketing, ADDY and AMR awards. Ms. Vredevoogd has worked with Mr. Posin and Mr. Low on many of Minto’s ground-breaking advertising, marketing collateral, site graphics, sales and design center displays.

Algon Group, Complex Financial Situations
Label & Co. has formed an alliance with the Algon Group, a financial advisory firm that provides sophisticated financial analysis and advisory services to debtors, creditors, equity holders and third party constituencies. The company’s expertise lies in its ability to effectively guide clients through complex, challenging, financially distressed and bankrupt situations.

Currently Algon assignments include a global $2 billion plus restructuring involving over 40 domestic and foreign financial institutions for a Florida based condominium developer, and a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization for a $256 million condominium development. Label & Co. and Algon are working together on a variety of assignments including a restructuring of a multi-family developer with approximately $450 million of debt, the restructuring of a highly complex commercial portfolio representing approximately $250 million of debt and the CRO/restructuring of $365 million of debt for a multi-state master planned community developer. www.algongroup.com