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Lake Forest, Illinois (October 8, 2013) – Green Courte Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate investment firm focused on building industry-leading companies within niche real estate sectors, announced today that Susi Rowe has joined the firm as a Vice President with responsibility for leading Green Courte’s sustainability initiatives.

Ms. Rowe will focus on sustainability as it relates to the firm’s portfolio of assets in both the land-lease/manufactured housing community and parking sectors. She will serve as Green Courte’s representative to the Green Parking Council and the Real Estate Roundtable’s Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee. Ms. Rowe is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, where she will focus on sustainability best practices. Ms. Rowe holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from Purdue University as well as a Master of Management (MBA) from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Lake Forest, Illinois (August 22, 2013) – Green Courte Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate investment firm focused on building industry-leading companies within niche real estate sectors, announced today the acquisition of Lamplighter Manufactured Home Community, an age-restricted land-lease community, containing 260 home sites, located in Port Orange, Florida.

Green Courte has engaged American Land Lease, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of its second fund, Green Courte Real Estate Partners II, LLC, to manage the community. American Land Lease is the manager of Green Courte’s land-lease/manufactured housing community portfolio, which now includes over 19,300 developed home sites located across 54 communities in eleven states. American Land Lease will operate the community under their “55+” lifestyle brand, Solstice Communities. For additional information about Solstice Communities, please visit www.solsticecommunities.com.

Lake Forest, Illinois (August 5, 2013) – Green Courte Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate investment firm focused on building industry-leading companies within niche real estate sectors, announced today the promotion of Cheri M. Scully to Vice President.

Cheri has worked with Green Courte on a contract basis since 2008 and joined Green Courte in January 2011 as an Associate. As a Vice President, Cheri will continue her leadership role in Steamboat Springs, Colorado overseeing asset management, including condominium sales and marketing, retail sales and leasing, and property management.

Prior to joining Green Courte, Cheri was a Partner at Partners by Design, an architectural design firm in Chicago, Illinois focused on corporate and commercial architecture, interiors and image design.

Lake Forest, Illinois (July 31, 2013) – Green Courte Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate investment firm focused on building industry-leading companies within niche real estate sectors, announced today the acquisition of two all-age land-lease communities located in southern coastal Maine. The communities contain 483 home sites and include Town & Country Village in Lisbon and Maplewood Manor/Merry Meeting in Brunswick.

Commenting on the acquisition, Green Courte’s Chairman, Randy Rowe stated, “We are pleased to enter the Maine market by adding two high-quality communities to our Clearview portfolio of all-age land-lease communities. Our efforts continue to be focused on adding high-quality land-lease communities to our portfolio and leveraging the strengths of our operating platform, American Land Lease.”

Green Courte has engaged American Land Lease, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of its second fund, Green Courte Real Estate Partners II, LLC, to manage the communities. American Land Lease is the principal manager of Green Courte’s land-lease/manufactured housing community portfolio, which now includes over 19,000 developed home sites located across 53 communities in eleven states. American Land Lease will operate the community under its all-age brand, Clearview Communities. For additional information about Clearview Communities, please visit www.clearviewcommunities.com.

Lake Forest, Illinois (July 11, 2013) – Green Courte Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate investment firm focused on building industry-leading companies within niche real estate sectors, announced today that Ryan Bowie has joined the firm as Managing Director, with responsibility for leading Green Courte’s investor relations, fundraising and portfolio management activities.

Mr. Bowie joins Green Courte after spending thirteen years in senior roles within a number of public and private real estate companies including Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H), Strategic Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: BEE),  LaSalle Investment Management and Bowie Capital Advisors.

While at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Mr. Bowie served as Head of Structured Finance where he was focused on corporate development, capital markets and capital deployment for the global hotel owner and manager. At Strategic Hotels & Resorts, a public REIT, he served in various roles including Vice President, Capital Markets & Corporate Finance, Corporate Treasurer and head of Investor Relations. During his career, Mr. Bowie has completed over $7 billion in debt and equity transactions, including the initial public offering of Strategic Hotels & Resorts in 2004.

Commenting on Mr. Bowie’s appointment, Randy Rowe, Green Courte’s Chairman, said, “We are very excited to have Ryan join us as a Managing Director and look forward to his many contributions.”

About Green Courte Partners, LLC

Green Courte Partners, LLC is a Chicago-based private equity real estate investment firm targeting niche real estate sectors. Currently, our strategies include building fully-integrated companies investing in land-lease/manufactured housing communities and parking properties. The firm combines focused investment strategies with a disciplined approach to transaction execution and asset management. Green Courte’s goal is to invest in high quality assets that will generate attractive risk-adjusted returns over a long-term holding period. For additional information, please visit www.GreenCourtePartners.com.

For media inquiries, please contact Marnie Helfand at (847) 235-8658 or MarnieHelfand@GreenCourtePartners.com

It was going to be one of those sensational trips – Sicily, Venice and Rome. We would leave the early spring cold weather of New York City for the more temperate conditions of Italy.

And once again the place to leave our automobile was going to be The Parking Spot, of course. Why change to anything else when this fabulous parking operation has served us so well in different locations quite a few times.

The crush and panic of airport parking, the wandering around to get a spot to leave the car, the expense, the hassle of loading and unloading luggage – -all  belonged to another and older way of life – – and not a good one.

We were going to leave our vehicle for two weeks plus. No problem. We had made our on-line reservation and showed up and were immediately taken care of.  Bags (and there were quite a few) were unloaded from our SUV. They were stowed in The Parking Spot bus and off we went. Alitalia Airlines which proved not to be the class operation their ads claim it is was our way across the pond to Rome. And the Parking Spot driver pulled up close to the terminal and unloaded our luggage.

Two plus weeks later we landed at JFK and called The Parking Spot – we were ready for the pickup. Incredibly, after a wait of less than five minutes, we had our pickup. Baggage was stowed and secured and back to the Parking Spot we went.

Our SUV was waiting. Our luggage was efficiently placed inside. And off we went, smiling. Oh, if all life experiences could be as efficient, as streamlined, as user friendly.

Think about it the next time you fly.