Ron Moelis’s commitment to the communities L+M develops and the people who live within them has remained unchanged since the firm’s founding in 1984. Ron’s career in real estate began when he saw an opportunity to expand the role of private sector firms in the creation of affordable housing in New York City. Recognizing a need and demand for better options, Ron Moelis set out to find more efficient ways to build and preserve affordable housing by combining resources from both the private and public sectors.

New York City’s affordable housing crisis during the 1980s further galvanized Ron’s desire to find creative ways to develop high-quality affordable housing, of which L+M’s work was a natural outgrowth. Since founding L+M with his partner Sanford Loewentheil, Ron Moelis has made the firm an innovative force to develop high-quality, cost-effective housing and neighborhood infrastructure.

While the focus of L+M’s projects has evolved over the years, Ron’s desire for his work to serve local communities has remained constant. From spearheading the Arverne View (formerly known as Ocean Village) rebuilding efforts on Rockaway Peninsula after Hurricane Sandy, to revitalizing historic properties like the Hahne’s building in downtown Newark, to envisioning The ReFresh Project in New Orleans, a project which transformed a vacant store lot into a “fresh food hub” housing a Whole Foods grocery and state-of-the-art teaching kitchen, L+M’s work reflects Ron’s commitment to strengthening local communities.