New Luna Ventures enables institutional and qualified individual investors to take advantage of current distressed real estate markets and the emerging market for high-performance building design. New Luna Ventures seeks to capitalize on market opportunities in urban core locations and lower net operating cost structure and tax and rebate incentives for high-performance building. We seek to move to where the markets are going in the post-recessionary cycle.

Urban real estate supports sustainable, adaptive re-use and redevelopment of existing building stock and related energy retrofit advantages and the trend for all new construction to be eco-efficient, green, high-performance design. Our strategic focus, financial discipline, and add-value expertise in high-performance building design offers opportunities for New Luna Ventures to outperform traditional real estate investors.

New Luna invests in real estate development projects of the following types:

• Adaptive re-use (conversion of historic and existing buildings) and
• New construction with full or near-complete entitlements or won RFP’s
• Both within a framework of energy, water, and materials efficiency and healthy indoor
  environmental air quality.
• Incomplete, distressed, commercial urban mixed-use projects – office, retail, hotel, etc. with opportunities for eco-efficiency adaptation and government rebates and incentives.

We favor experienced developers with the following characteristics:

• Market-driven project concept;
• Solid financial strategy, cash flow;
• Realistic construction plans and budgets;
• High-performance expertise and resources;
• High quality architectural integrity and workmanship;
• Personal investment in projects;
• Experienced superintendents and project managers;
• Transparency in governance and reporting.

High-performance buildings can show the following financial benefits:

• Lower annual operating costs
• Reduction of energy, water, and materials use
• High tenant retention and renewal rates
• Federal, state, regional incentives and rebates
• Future-proofing against mandatory energy and eco-taxes
• Sales and marketing advantages - efficient and healthy.

Valuations of work out and/or new construction projects featuring high-performance design therefore may exceed conventional counterparts, offering New Luna opportunity for better return-on-investment.

We combine traditional, financial due diligence with our enhanced assessment tool, Sustain360^tm. Our proprietary Eco risk/reward approach helps us identify those high-performance design features with increased opportunity for financial upside and reduced execution risk. This due diligence and opportunity arbitrage assessment approach is unique to New Luna Ventures.