Ron Moelis | |
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Born | Queens, New York City |
Residence | New York City |
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of Pennsylvania NYU Law School |
Occupation | CEO and Founding Partner |
Employer | L+M Development |
Known for | Real estate developer, affordable housing specialist |
Parents |
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Family |
Cindy S. Moelis (sister) Ken Moelis (brother) Robert S. Rivkin (brother-in-law) |
Ron Moelis is an American entrepreneur and real estate developer. Moelis is CEO and Founding Partner of L+M Development Partners Inc., a full-service development firm he co-founded with Sanford Loewentheil in 1984. Moelis is known for his work to develop affordable and mixed-income/mixed-use housing in New York City projects such as The Kalahari in Harlem, and Essex Crossing, a planned mixed-use development in New York City's Lower East Side. L+M's work includes the rehabilitation of properties in New York City and New Orleans that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina.
Under Moelis’ leadership, L+M has overseen more than $4 billion in development, construction and investment, and has created or preserved more than 15,000 high-quality market-rate and affordable housing units in New York City’s tri-state area, the west coast and gulf coast regions of the United States.
Moelis was born in Queens, New York City and was raised in New Rochelle, New York.
Moelis graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in history from the School of Arts and Sciences and a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School in 1978. He received a J.D. from New York University in 1982 and spent a year as law clerk for judge Stanley Brotman of the Federal District Court in New Jersey.