2016
ARLINGTON STREET INVESTMENTS SUCCESS IS AWARDED
Business in Calgary, February 2016
In Canada’s growing private capital market – the business of trading in prospectus exempt securities, or any securities, to qualified exempt market clients and focusing on certain market sectors (such as oil and gas, real estate, minerals, technology) – Calgary-based Arlington Street Investments (ASI) continues to build on its solid reputation to achieve success.
2015
2015 PCMA AWARDS PRIVATE CAPITAL MARKETS - DEAL OF THE YEAR, MAY 19, 2015
The Private Capital Markets Association of Canada (PCMA) held its 4th Annual PCMA Private Capital Markets Conference and announced the winners of the 2015 PCMA Private Capital Markets Deals of the Year Awards on May 19th, 2015.
QUANTUM CONTINUES TO GROW THREE SISTERS DEVELOPMENT
By David Parker Calgary Herald, December 2014
Frank Lonardelli, president and CEO of Arlington Street Investments, felt entrepreneurial businesses would prefer to purchase their space and pay themselves the rent. He has been proven right as a whole floor and other pockets are under contract through Dan Harmsen of Barclay Street Real Estate, while the main floor retail has been fully leased through John Moss of CBRE.
TIM KOCSAR JOINS AWARD WINNING ASI TEAM AS VP CAPITAL RELATIONS
CALGARY- Frank Lonardelli, the Founder and CEO of Arlington Street Investments, a National Award Winning Real Estate Investment and Development company head quartered in Calgary, Alberta is proud to announce the addition of Tim Kocsar as VP Capital Relationships.
Tim will join the growing executive team of Arlington Street Investments (ASI) as it’s relationship manager for their growing list of high net worth accredited Investors, EMD’s, Family offices, and IIROC Capital partners.
THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL EXIT
THE ARLINGTON APPROACH
Arlington Street Investments (ASI) continues to be recognized as one of Calgary's most dynamic and innovative real estate developers.
ARLINGTON STREET HAS BIG VISION FOR 17TH AVENUE
Arlington Street Investments president and CEO Frank Lonardelli built the four-storey commercial tower on 8th Avenue S.W. just to the west of the Uptown Theatre block where his head office is housed.
Private Market Financing Pays Off For Arlington Street
Arlington Street Investments (ASI) recently won a prestigious award for the financing and development of its Calgary Haiku property, continuing a run of success for the investment firm dedicated to acquiring profitable properties through private market financing.
ARLINGTON STREET INVESTMENTS WINS AWARD FOR BELTLINE PROJECT
A Calgary-based real estate investment firm has ambitious plans to revitalize one of the busiest intersections in the Beltline.
Arlington Wins Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year for Second Time
Arlington Street Investments (“ASI”) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Yearby the Private Capital Markets Association of Canada (“PCMA”) on the financing syndication and development of the Haiku Management Limited Partnership (“Haiku”).
2014
Getting it Right: Top Line Underwriting and the Capital Stack
By Frank Lonardelli Exempt Edge, Winter Issue 2014
This article addresses, on a high level, the best practices in underwriting (which are the fundamentals) or what we refer to as table stakes, and then it tackles the elusive capital stack and what that means for the investor.
Business as Unusual
By Max Fawcett, Alberta Venture, November 2014
If you build it, they will come. It’s a foundational belief for supply side economists and hallucinatory Iowa corn farmers who have a troubled relationship with their father and a love for the game of baseball. But Frank Lonardelli? Not so much.
Arlington Project
Respects Community
By David Parker Calgary Herald, March 2014
This week, members of Calgary’s commercial real estate community will receive information to help them find tenants for Windsor, the Arlington Street Investment’s five-storey mixed use development to be built at 50th Avenue and Elbow Drive S.W.
Exempt Markets:
Rebuilding Credibility and Perception
Business in Calgary Magazine, Jan 2014
Exempt markets (EM) are one of Canada’s most misunderstood, sometimes controversial but increasingly popular sources of capital. The textbook definition cites EM as a segment of the capital markets for which certain exemptions are provided under provincial securities legislation.
2013
Under Construction: Why Alberta’s exempt market needs work
By Max Fawcett, Alberta Venture September 10, 2013
The province’s exempt market has been cleaned up considerably of late, but one of its insiders thinks there’s still more work to be done.
See the article in Alberta Venture
Arlington Street Investments Snags Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year
Business in Calgary Magazine, June 2013
The Exempt Market Dealers Association of Canada (EMDA) recently announced the winners of the 2013 EMDA Awards – Exempt Market Deals of the Year. The EMDA Awards are the only Canadian industry awards celebrating prominent exempt market transactions led by exempt market dealers.
See the article in Business in Calgary (Page 16)
Calgary investment
company seeks out ‘languishing’ buildings
By Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary Herald, May 2013
CALGARY — A Calgary company is looking to buy ‘languishing’ buildings in
the downtown and the Beltline for future investment opportunities. An example
of Arlington Street Investments’ strategy is its 8th Avenue Limited
Partnership, where it was created to raise investment funds that would be used
to renovate, re-position and construct a new building at 718 8th Ave.
See the article in The Calgary Herald
Exempt Dealer honour illustrates Arlington Street’s winning strategy
By Paul Brent, Property Biz Canada, May 2013
This month’s win by Arlington Street Investments of Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year for a financing on a downtown Calgary building revamp illustrates the success of Arlington’s model.
See the article in the RENX website
Arlington Street
Investments Wins EMDA Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year
May 2013
Toronto, May 1, 2013 – The Exempt Market Dealers Association of Canada (EMDA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 EMDA Awards – Exempt Market Deals of the Year which will be presented tomorrow at the 2013 EMDA Exempt Market Conference in Toronto, Ontario. The 2013 EMDA Awards are the only Canadian industry awards celebrating prominent exempt market transactions led by exempt market dealers.
See the article in the PCMA website
Developments Keep Ollenberger Busy
By David Parker, Calgary Herald March 2013
"I have been asked a number of times if I knew what Chris Ollenberger was doing since he left his position as president and CEO of the Calgary Municipal Land Authority (CMLC)."
2012
Thinking Small Can Be A Big Idea
By David Parker Calgary Herald, October 2012
“A number of office towers are being built, or are in various stages of planning, within the downtown and Beltline districts. A pedestrian in the core will notice lots of activity that will eventually offer large floor plates and opportunities for companies wanting to lease areas of stacked contiguous space."
2010
Risky Business
By Joel Schlesinger, Winnipeg Free Press, March 2010
“Looking at Frank Lonardelli’s track record over the last 15 years, it’s not difficult to realize the former Winnipegger has a natural talent for real estate speculation."
See the article in Winnipeg Free Press
Arlington back in building business
By David Parker Calgary Herald, January 2010
“When I talked with Frank Lonardelli, the conversation naturally turned to his growing up in Winnipeg.
The president and CEO of Arlington Street Investments was raised in an Italian immigrant family home. After his father died, his mother, who spoke no English at the time, provided for Frank and his three sisters.”
See the article in The Calgary Herald
2009
He wants to help others the way others helped him
By Gordon Sinclair Jr., Winnipeg Free Press, June 2009
"This afternoon at Westminster United Church, a tall man in a suit will stand before the graduating students at Gordon Bell High School and deliver a speech in the form of a short story. A short story that took a long time to finally tell."
See the article in Winnipeg Free Press
