Starwood Capital Group

So that's also further evidence, I think, that these federal assistance programs actually did filter down to landlords in one way or another.

Let's talk about Starwood Capital Group.

It is the country's third largest private equity apartment owner.

They count for 10 percent of the property owners and investment vehicles that are suing the feds and close to 15 percent of the rental units covered so far.

Then they acquired a massive two gigawatt greenfield site down in Matagorda County, Texas.

They formed a joint venture with Starwood Capital that is specifically targeting 2.5 gigawatts of enterprise AI co-location.

And they even acquired a majority stake in Exxon to establish a real foothold in European edge computing.

They are literally buying the foundation for a global AI empire piece by piece.

A national anti-data center bus tour stopped in Fairfax County today.

Humans First, a grassroots conservative group led by early Tea Party organizer Amy Krimmer, was set to hold a 3 o'clock press conference at the Bryn Mawr Park Recreation Center alongside residents fighting Starwood Capital's proposed Plaza 500 data center in Lincolnia.

A new poll from the Associated Press and the University of Chicago finds about 6 in 10 Americans support limiting how many new data centers get built.

The Board of Supervisors has approved the redevelopment of the 40-acre Prosperity Business Campus in Merrifield between the Mosaic District and the Dunn-Loring Metro Station.

That's amazing

... we, and, and the hotel was owned by Starwood Capital, so-

Oh, wow

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First, between the two of us, we have unique access to many of the most brilliant and successful minds in the alternative investment space.

Folks like Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Capital.

Sternlicht has built a global real estate investing empire that spans thirty countries with more than a hundred and fifteen billion dollars in real estate assets under management.

Or folks like Will Van Lowe, the founder of Quantum Energy, one of the largest private energy investors with an astounding track record, despite investing in an asset class that's usually very volatile.

Because at the time that you acquired them, some of the leaders of that group went on to become the biggest competitors because leaders of that group really populated what was to become Blackstone, which is now the first name in real estate.

I love to say, I hate to say, I don't know the right word for that, or Starwood.

So what a fascinating ancestry story that is.

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