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Jon A. Cummins
Chief Operating Officer
Amerimar Enterprises, Inc.

Jon Cummins is the Chief Operating Officer of Amerimar Enterprises, Inc., a position he has held since 2001. Amerimar’s focus is on the acquisition of “value added” hotels, apartments, office and retail properties in major urban/suburban markets throughout the United States. Mr. Cummins’ primary responsibilities are the general oversight of Amerimar’s operations as well as the sourcing, acquisition, asset management, property management, financing and disposition of the Company’s hotel and multifamily properties. Before joining Amerimar in 1989, Jon worked in the Real Estate Investment Banking Division at Lehman Brothers in New York where he was involved in the placement of debt and equity financing vehicles and the acquisition of property for the firm’s own account.

Q: As a company, tell me about the niche you have carved out for yourself and how you feel you are different from the competition. Why do you find this product type more appealing than alternative real estate asset classes? Read the rest of this entry »

Here at the Llenrock Group, we are huge advocates of environmental sustainability. Our printers never have paper in them because we try to save trees. The punishment in our office for throwing recyclable items into the regular trash bin is a public flogging with a bamboo rod.  Sometimes I wonder if our founder should have just set up the Llenrock office in Singapore.

In the spirit of our tree-hugging mentality at Llenrock, we have compiled a list of “The 10 Greenest Buildings” in the world. Obviously, there’s no way to determine what “the greenest” building in the world is, but we thought each of these projects was pretty cool for their environmental sustainability.

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