Adam A. Arnow, Principal and Co-founder

Adam A. Arnow has managed direct real estate investments made by the Arnow Family, and several other ultra high net worth families in properties in the northeast region of the United States, and the country of Ireland throughout his careet. Beginning in 2005, Adam spent seven years managing acquisitions at Olmstead Properties, Inc. – a family-owned real estate owner / operator (not the Arnow family) based in NYC. In 2012 Adam began actively investing in direct real estate deals primarily on behalf of his family, and several other ultra high net worth families. Since 2005 Adam has managed transactions valued in excess of $1.5 billion.

By way of background, Adam’s family has been in the real estate business since the 1930s. The Arnow family has developed over 10 million square feet of office and residential properties throughout the United States, but primarily in New York City - including the Grace Building, 1411 Broadway, 711 Third Avenue, 437 Madison Avenue, 7 Hanover Square, and 250 Mercer Street. While the family continues to own a portfolio of legacy assets, most of the Arnow family portfolio was sold in 1997 to a Real Estate Investment Trust called Trizec Inc.

While Adam’s initial investments were in NYC they have expanded to include over a dozen projects in Ireland, and several multi-family development projects in and around Boston, MA and Pittsburgh, PA.

Samuel W. Rosenblatt, Principal and Operating Partner

Samuel W. Rosenblatt, is the fourth generation of his family in the real estate business. Mr. Rosenblatt worked for eight years as the Vice President of Newmark & Company Real Estate, where he was responsible for overseeing the leasing and management of 16 commercial properties totaling approximately 6 million square feet. He then served for 2 years as the Vice President of leasing for Swig, Weiler and Arnow with responsibility for 3 buildings containing nearly 2 million square feet. Mr. Rosenblatt serves on the Board of Directors of many philanthropic institutions, is an avid contemporary art collector, has successfully run the NYC marathon and is an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York. Mr. Rosenblatt received the Distinguished Service Award from the Young Executive Division of the Israel Bonds Organization. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

Patrick A. Pavone, Principal and co-founder

Patrick A. Pavone began working on direct real estate investments on behalf of the Arnow Family and Olmstead Properties in Dublin, NYC, and in the northeast region of the United States in 2014. Patrick focuses on all aspects of acquisitions, from deal sourcing to deal structuring, to asset management. An attorney by training, Patrick served as an asset manager at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) before joining Adam / Olmstead. Before BAML, Patrick served as chief fundraiser and senior advisor to numerous elected officials on the city, state and federal level from the New York City and Connecticut areas.

Patrick maintains offices primarily in Connecticut and at Olmstead Properties, Inc., and the Weiler Arnow Management Co. Inc. in NYC. Patrick is experienced with commercial, residential, and industrial asset classes. Since 2014, together with Adam Arnow, he has overseen the development of over 700,000 square feet of office properties in Dublin, Ireland. Sales of these properties have generated proceeds in excess of $600 million. Additionally, Patrick has spearheaded a countrywide single family homebuilding company in Ireland that at its peak had the capacity to build over 1700 units of single-family homes across the country.

Domestically, Patrick has bought over 450,000 square feet of commercial office in NYC, and 350,00 square feet of industrial regionally that Olmstead Properties operates as part of their 4.5 million square foot portfolio. Additionally, he currently manages over 1000 units of multifamily housing recently completed or currently under development in the Pittsburgh and the Boston areas. Finally, Patrick has also bought and manages a number of “land banked” properties in the northeast USA slated for future development.

Abby Hamlin, Principal and Development Partner

Abby Hamlin is a New York City-based real estate developer, educator, and civic thinker. In 1997, she founded Hamlin Ventures, LLC, to pursue design-driven urban real estate development. Still one of a handful of women-led development companies, the hallmark of Hamlin’s success has been her ability to combine design excellence with a public purpose to create projects that enhance communities, win design awards, and produce stellar returns for investors.

Best known as the catalyst for the resurgence of luxury townhouse development in New York City, Ms. Hamlin has more recently expanded her business to include arts-based and non-profit consulting. Three projects that illustrate her current endeavors are: (a) Powerhouse Arts, a 180,000 square-foot industrial arts complex designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, which has recently opened in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, (b) Bakehouse Arts, a proposed arts-driven, live-work community including the renovation of the historic Bakehouse building in Wynwood Norte, Miami, coupled with the development of 300-400 units of mixed-income housing and cultural space and (c) the American Numismatic Society relocation to a newly developed university-based headquarters property.

In 2020, Ms. Hamlin was awarded the Edward P. Bass Visiting Distinguished Architecture Fellowship at the Yale School of Architecture in recognition of her keen knowledge of and appreciation for architecture and design and her ability to marry creative endeavors with a successful development business. As the Bass Fellow, Ms. Hamlin taught an advanced design and development studio with architects Dana Tang and Andrei Harwell.

Before forming Hamlin Ventures, Ms. Hamlin was President of Swig Weiler & Arnow Mgt. Co., Inc. a premier Manhattan-based commercial real estate company that developed, owned, and managed 8 million square feet of office properties in New York City and San Francisco, as well as the Fairmont Hotels. Ms. Hamlin was with Swig Weiler & Arnow for fifteen years, spearheading several large-scale development projects and managing the organization for its private owners.

Ms. Hamlin was appointed as the Bass Fellow at Yale School of Architecture in 2020, where she co-taught an advanced design studio entitled “The Innovative Urban Workplace.” Before, she was an adjunct professor of real estate development at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University from 2010-2014, teaching the core development classes and serving as Director of Curriculum. In 2016, she was an adjunct professor at Columbia University again, co-teaching real estate development in the Business School.

Ms. Hamlin holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Urban Planning from Princeton University.