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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.

Lake Forest, Illinois (May 7, 2013) – Green Courte Partners, LLC (“Green Courte”), a private equity real estate investment firm targeting parking assets and land-lease/manufactured housing communities, announced today the promotion of Braden L. Rudolph to Vice President, Asset Management.

Since joining Green Courte as a Senior Associate in June 2011, Mr. Rudolph has been involved in Green Courte’s acquisitions and asset management efforts. Mr. Rudolph was actively involved in Green Courte’s acquisition of The Parking Spot, one of the nation’s leading owner/operators of near-airport parking properties, with 35 locations and over 60,000 parking spaces. Most recently, Mr. Rudolph has been involved with implementing strategic initiatives at American Land Lease, Inc., an owner/operator of 50 land-lease communities with over 18,500 home sites. As a Vice President, Mr. Rudolph will continue his involvement in the firm’s asset management efforts, primarily focusing on the near-airport and urban parking sectors.

Mr. Rudolph graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 2010 with a Masters of Business Administration.

About Green Courte Partners, LLC

Green Courte Partners, LLC is a Chicago-based private equity real estate investment firm targeting niche real estate sectors, including parking assets and land-lease/manufactured housing communities. 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

To read the full interview, follow this link to MHMSM.com.

Lake Forest, Illinois (June 4, 2012) – Green Courte Partners, LLC announced today the acquisition from CRF Communities of Plantation Landings, a 4-star manufactured housing community in Haines City, Florida. The age-restricted, 394-site community is fully leased and located directly south of Royal Palm Village. Green Courte’s second fund, Green Courte Real Estate Partners II, LLC, acquired Royal Palm Village as a part of its purchase of American Land Lease, Inc. in 2009.

Commenting on the acquisition, Green Courte’s Chairman Randy Rowe stated, “We are pleased to add this high-quality property to our existing portfolio of ‘55+’ retirement communities in central Florida. CRF Communities is one of Florida’s leading developers of retirement communities, and we hope that we will have additional opportunities to work with the CRF organization in the future.”

Green Courte has engaged American Land Lease, Inc. to manage Plantation Landings. American Land Lease is the principal manager of Green Courte’s manufactured housing portfolio, which includes over 18,500 developed home sites located within 50 communities across ten 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.

About Green Courte Partners, LLC

Green Courte Partners, LLC is a Chicago-based private equity real estate investment firm targeting niche real estate sectors, including land-lease communities (also known as manufactured housing communities) and parking assets in high barrier locations. 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 media inquiries, please contact Marnie Helfand at (312) 966-4747 or MarnieHelfand@GreenCourtePartners.com