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Overview
Luzern Associates LLC (“Luzern”), and affiliated entities, is a real estate investment firm founded by Managing Partner Salvatore
Campofranco. Mr. Campofranco’s vision is to apply an institutional caliber investing discipline with an entrepreneurial outlook to
unlock value and provide superior risk-adjusted returns. Since inception, Luzern has raised approximately $55M of equity and
invested in nine projects with a gross project value of $185M. Luzern targets core-plus, value-add and opportunistic investments in
office, multifamily and industrial product types ether by direct ownership or through co-investments with joint venture partners. We
rely on a deep bench of in-house personnel and exclusive consultants with extensive history in our core markets to provide a strategic
competitive advantage to our investors and partners by bringing over 100 years of real estate experience while providing nimble and
patient capital. We take pride in our consistent history of successfully identifying underutilized assets, formulating and executing
complex business plans, creative capital structures, and realizing value during various stages of the real estate market cycle.
Luzern is seeking a partner to invest equity alongside Luzern Realty Fund III, LLC (“Fund III” or the “Fund”). Fund III is the current
vehicle through which Luzern is deploying equity and is a $25M limited partnership with capital commitments of $18M that has $4.7M
(20%) currently invested (discussed in more detail on page 12). The Fund’s current goal is to deploy an additional $12M in new equity
over the next 24 months. Mr. Campofranco is majority owner of the Fund manager, general partner and has personally committed
significant capital to the Fund. Luzern is look to expand it’s investment portfolio through a programmatic joint venture structure
offering the opportunity to gain diverse exposure to a broad array of real estate assets.
Luzern has been successful over the last 12 years by being disciplined and relying on our core investment philosophy and strengths:
A hyper local focus, Highly selective, Disciplined and patient Institutional discipline
providing unique market rigorous and analytically investment approach, and approach in the
perspective and the based deal screening and the ability to be areas of governance,
ability to leverage long- and underwriting dynamic during the hold fund structuring, fund
standing relationships to process with period to ensure management and
generate off-market coordination and input maximum return for operation, and
transactions and partners from our Advisory Board each investment reporting
Investment Approach
Luzern applies a rigorous and methodical process to screening new potential opportunities. After identifying a new investment to
pursue, we generate detailed financial underwriting projections produced by the experienced in-house team.
The assumptions utilized for these projections are based on in-depth market analysis focusing on:
• A detailed study of future supply and performance metrics for the applicable product type;
While the investment thesis is being constructed, we involve and seek feedback from local 3rd party experts, lenders, brokers, and
environmental and construction service providers. We then compile the financial underwriting, market analysis, and 3rd party
feedback into a concise investment offering memorandum (“OM”) that clearly articulates the proposed business plan, identifies and
explains the relevant investment risks, and summarizes projected returns. The OM also details the unique attributes, relevant
architectural plans, project budget, timeline, operational details, and important metrics for each project. Additionally, as part of the
underwriting process, we perform a sensitivity analysis to illustrate the impact on projected returns from potential changes in major
underwriting assumptions. The findings of this analysis are also detailed in the OM.
Finally, each potential investment is reviewed and discussed in detail with our Advisory Board during the bidding process and again
before we decide to proceed with a transaction.
• Focus on submarkets with major concentrations of Medical and Educational institutions (“Meds & Eds”) providing a durable
highly educated employment base with strong historical and future population growth
• Live, work, play nodes in emerging submarkets and inner-suburbs along public transportation infrastructure
• Industrial locales along primary transit arteries and major highway interchanges
Return Profile
Luzern has achieved superior risk adjusted returns to date by building a portfolio that is blend of cash flow generating operating
properties and opportunistic development orientated investments. The entrepreneurial structure of Luzern’s platform provides the
ability to adjust the targeted deal profile and return hurdles as market cycles flow and opportunities present in order to align with our
strategy and potential co-investment capital.
• Average annual cash distribution rate during the hold • Target equity multiple of 1.75X
period of between 5% and 7%
• Leverage of between 60% to 70% of total development
• Target equity multiple of 1.30X costs, typically floating interest rate with an interest only
period until the property generates cash flow or is
• Leverage of between 50% to 65% of total acquisition stabilized and then the debt is converted to, or
costs with a fixed interest rate and amortization refinanced, with a fixed rate amortizing loan
• Target holding period between 5 years to 7 years • Target holding period between 3 years to 5 years
Luzern Realty Fund I L.P. – Was the inaugural fund formed in January 2008 with $7M of total limited partner equity raised and a total
gross project value of $26M. Major projects included the redevelopment of a 92,000 SF Class A office building located in Wilton, CT and
a 15 unit mixed-use Class A residential and retail property located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, MA. The fund was closed
in 2014 and realized a gross IRR of 12.2% and net IRR of 9.60%.
Luzern Realty Fund II L.P. – Formed in 2013 the fund had $15M in limited partner equity and a total gross project value of $75M.
Investments include two residential condominium projects one located in Jamaica Plains, MA and the other in Boston, MA, a 34,000 SF
mixed-use property located in Westport, CT and a co-investment with Fund III in Oak Row Apartments. The fund is closed to new
investors and to date has realized a gross IRR of 14.3% and net IRR of 11.7%.
Luzern Realty Fund III L.P. – Formed in 2017 the Fund has $18 in committed limited partner equity with the ability to increase
commitments by an additional $7M to $25M of limited partner equity. To date, Fund III has invested $4.7M of equity in Oak Row
Apartments, a 135,105 SF 80 unit luxury rental development located in West Roxbury, MA. Total project value for Oak Row is $37.5 M
($24M pro-rata co-investment with Fund II). The capital raise has been completed and Fund III is closed to additional investors. Fund III
has a projected gross IRR of 14% and net IRR of 11.8%.
Representative Projects
Oak Row Apartments – West Roxbury, MA
Representative Projects
Westport 180 – Westport, CT
Capitalization Structure:
Luzern Realty Fund II Investment : $2,763,997
Urbanica Investment: $898,000
Website: www.tiliajp.com
The investment was sourced off-market by Luzern and completed in a joint venture with
Boston Realty Development, LLC. Luzern served as co-manager for the project, responsible
for day-to-day construction management and oversight, and the marketing and sale strategy.
The project was completed in twenty-four months from the date of acquisition to the closing of
unit sales.
Capitalization Structure:
Luzern Realty Fund II Investment: $2,426,000
Boston Realty Development, LLC: $2,426,000
Fund Manager
Salvatore Campofranco - Founder and Managing Partner of Luzern Associates, LLC
With over thirty years of experience in the financing, development and operation of commercial real estate, Salvatore Campofranco
has an exceptional track record of equity preservation and positive returns throughout the toughest real estate and economic cycles.
Since 2007, Mr. Campofranco has been a real estate equity fund manager. He developed the business strategy of Luzern,
established the operating platform, sourced the investments and completed the capitalization for three private equity real estate
funds. He was directly responsible for the successful execution of asset strategy on multiple investments which have realized profits
for his partners. Mr. Campofranco has a reputation of being conservative, creative and detail orientated.
Prior to founding Luzern, from 1996 to 2007, Mr. Campofranco was an executive with Reckson Associates Realty Corp (“Reckson”)
a NYSE traded REIT. There, he held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. As a member of the
Executive Committee he helped create the strategy for the Company. In his role Salvatore served as the Chairperson of the
Operating Committee, which was a key platform for communication and the personnel development for the entire senior and
executive management team. During his eleven-year tenure Reckson’s market cap grew from $250M to over $6B. Reckson was
sold in January of 2007 to SL Green Realty (NYSE: SLG).
For eight years prior to Reckson, Mr. Campofranco was a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Towermarc
Corporation in Boston, MA. Towermarc developed and operated Class A office buildings in Massachusetts, Tennessee and Florida
and over that time grew rapidly providing strong returns to investors. Mr. Campofranco and the executive team of Towermarc
steered the company through the one of the most difficult real estate recessions in recent memory (1991-1995) and provided
positive returns to its owners upon the sale of the company in 1996 to Highwoods Properties (NYSE: HIW).
Mr. Campofranco is a graduate of St. John’s University in Queens, NY with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a New York
State CPA. He is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, Director Emeritus for the Waterside School in Stamford, CT and a
former member of the Parents’ Committee for Middlebury College (2006-2013).
Team Biographies
Eric Seitz is Vice President of Project Management based in Boston, MA and joined Luzern in 2011. He has been instrumental in
sourcing new investments, formulation of investment strategy and the execution for each of Luzern’s projects in the Boston MSA. Prior
to joining Luzern, Eric worked at Vinco Properties as Project Manager on the Chestnut Green Project in Foxboro, MA which was a $32M
adaptive reuse project of the former Foxboro State Hospital Campus. Eric graduated from Hobart College in 2007 with a Bachelors
Degree in Urban Studies and Economics, holds a Massachusetts Real Estate Brokers License and a Massachusetts Construction
Supervisor License. Eric has a Certificate in Commercial Real Estate Finance from Boston University and serves as Chair of the Young
Leaders Board for Caritas Communities.
Mark Liguori is Vice President of Asset Management. Mark has over 26 years of experience in the commercial real estate business and
began working with Luzern in 2014. He is directly responsible for investor relations and specifically the creation and maintenance of
Luzern’s investor database which entails partner investment activity and Luzern’s compliance of such activity with partnership
agreements. He is instrumental in the preparation of information packages distributed to Luzern’s limited partners. Mark works directly
with Sal on developing asset strategy and monitoring asset performance including underwriting research, due diligence activities,
construction loan draws, joint venture reporting and new investment presentations. Prior to Luzern, Mark worked for several top real
estate services and development companies such as Cushman and Wakefield and Baker Properties. Mark is a licensed Real Estate
Broker in New York and Connecticut. He holds an MBA from Fordham University in New York City with specializations in Real Estate
Finance and Management and a B.S. in Finance from Siena College in Loudonville, New York.
David Elwell is a Director of Acquisitions and has been working with Luzern since 2010. He is responsible for formulation and
preparation of all materials utilized in the bid process during the pursuit of new investments and the disposition of properties. He works
directly with Sal on pre-closing investment information projects related to communication of asset strategy including all aspects of the
development, market research, capitalization, modeling and yield analysis. David is responsible for preparation of the investor analysis
package presented to partners and Advisory Board members. David has 15 years of experience in all aspects of commercial real estate
acquisitions, valuations, financing, development and management. Prior to working with Luzern, David worked for HFF in Hartford, CT,
Goedecke & Co. in Boston, MA and Prairie Realty Advisors in Chicago, IL, where he helped place commercial real estate debt and equity
in excess of $1.55B. David is 2004 graduate of Trinity College.
Thomas Riley has over 35 years experience in the design, management and construction of commercial office buildings, retail,
hospitality and industrial buildings as well as commercial interiors. Tom worked with Sal as a Senior Vice President and Director of
Reckson Construction and Development. He is currently President of TRAC Consulting which provides services to Luzern on a project
basis.
Thomas Riley, RA
Advisory Design Consulting
and Construction
Board Management
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