World Class Team
Brand Partner
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz AG is part of the Mercedes-Benz Group AG with a total of around 166,000 employees worldwide and is responsible for the global business of Mercedes-Benz Cars and Mercedes-Benz Vans. Ola Källenius is Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG. The company focuses on the development, production and sales of passenger cars, vans and vehicle-related services. Furthermore, the company aspires to be the leader in the fields of electric mobility and vehicle software. The product portfolio comprises the Mercedes-Benz brand with Mercedes-AMG, Mercedes-Maybach, and G-Class with their all-electric models as well as products of the smart brand. The Mercedes me brand offers access to the digital services from Mercedes-Benz. Mercedes-Benz AG is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of luxury passenger cars. In 2023 it sold around two million passenger cars and 447,800 vans. In its two business segments, Mercedes-Benz AG is continually expanding its worldwide production network with more than 30 production sites on four continents, while gearing itself to meet the requirements of electric mobility. At the same time, the company is constructing and extending its global battery production network on three continents. As sustainability is the guiding principle of the Mercedes-Benz strategy and for the company itself, this means creating lasting value for all stakeholders: for customers, employees, investors, business partners and society as a whole. The basis for this is the sustainable business strategy of the Mercedes-Benz Group. The company thus takes responsibility for the economic, ecological and social effects of its business activities and looks at the entire value chain.
Developer
JDS Development Group
JDS Development Group is a team of innovators and builders pioneering progressive new forms of large-scale urban development that challenge the status quo of the real estate industry. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York, JDS is a national firm focused on acquisition, development, and construction, recognized for its architecturally significant mixed-use projects that respond to each community and push the boundaries of engineering and design.
JDS projects include The Brooklyn Tower, 111 West 57th Street, The American Copper Buildings, Walker Tower, Monad Terrace, 888 Brickell Dolce & Gabbana, and other award-winning collaborations with the world’s top architects and designers.
Architect
SHoP Architects
SHoP Architects is a New York-based global design leader, with iconic projects completed or underway across more than 72 million square feet on five continents. SHoP takes a high performance approach to design and planning that introduces definitive new and enduring architecture to the great city skylines and streetscapes.
Notable projects include Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the American Copper Buildings and the supertall residential tower 111 West 57th Street in Manhattan, the new Uber Headquarters in San Francisco, the recently opened Collins Arch complex in Melbourne, Fulbright University Vietnam, Codrico Tower Rotterdam, and multiple diplomatic facilities including in Milan and Bangkok, under a Design Excellence contract with the U.S. Department of State.
The diverse and trendsetting work of the firm has been widely celebrated with a variety of honors, among them the Smithsonian’s National Design Award for Architecture.
Interior Designer
Woods Bagot Studio
Woods Bagot is a global architecture studio specializing in architecture, interiors and masterplanning. The interior design team, under the leadership of Krista Ninivaggi, curates innovative spaces for a diverse and forward thinking clientele, ranging from lawyers to DJs. The team specialize in bespoke interiors that work in harmony with the existing architectural context. A meticulous attention to detail instills even the largest projects with a boutique feel. From welcoming residential spaces to progressive workplaces to conceptual hospitality programming, the team’s designs promote new and unexpected interactions fostering a broader range of unexpected collaborations and innovation.
landscape architect
Field Operations
Founded in 1999, Field Operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Shenzhen and London. Field Operations is renowned for strong contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales, from large urban districts, master plans and complex planning sites, to small well-crafted, detailed design projects. Regardless of scale, there is a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm, informed by the ecology of both people and nature, rooted in place and context.
The ultimate aim is to bring beauty, health and vitality to the different kinds of environments where people live and interact. Given the current day urgency of creatively addressing challenges of changing climate, diminishing resources, environmental decline, social inequity and rapid urbanization, we focus upon design that thinks and acts big, that elegantly solves real problems, and shapes more sustainable and resilient world for everybody.
Sales & Marketing
SERHANT.
New Development
SERHANT. is a multidimensional real estate and media company designed for the marketplace of tomorrow. Founded in New York City in September 2020 by Ryan Serhant, SERHANT. has quickly become one of the fastest-growing full-service brokerages operating in NYC and now in seven states. The SERHANT. real estate brokerage includes residential real estate and specialty divisions SERHANT. Signature, focused on high net-worth clientele and properties priced over $10 million USD, and SERHANT. New Development, focused on the sales and marketing of new construction projects.
The award-winning SERHANT. Studios, its full-service film studio and production division, concepts and distributes all content to its social channels and to its streaming channel, LISTED, on YouTube. SERHANT. Ventures, the education and innovation arm of the company, manages the global Sell It Like Serhant digital educational system which innovates and invests in EdTech and teaches the next generation of real estate agents globally. SERHANT. was founded by leading real estate broker, best-selling author and producer, Ryan Serhant, with a commitment to amplify the success of others and a vision to change the way real estate is sold.
ARCHITECT
ODP Architecture and Design
Founded in 2004, to provide Design Services to South Florida, ODP Architecture and Design has emerged the premier technical Architect in the Southeast United States and the Caribbean. Sought after by national and international developers to partner with world renowned design firms, ODP has provided Architect of Record services for the largest and most complex projects in South Florida. Among ODP’s successful projects are One Thousand Museum with Zaha Hadid Architects (London); Paramount at Miami WorldCenter with Elkus Manfredi Architects (Boston); and the Apple Flagship Store Aventura with Foster and Partners Architects (London). Other successful collaborations include Herzog and de Meuron (Basel); OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture (New York); Kohn, Pedersen Fox (New York); and UN Studio (Amsterdam).
ODP is an award winning, full service architecture and interior design firm that offers complete services from Master Planning and Architecture through Construction Administration to Interior Design and FF&E Procurement. Headquartered in Hollywood, FL, with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Naples and Tampa, ODP’s projects range from master-planned multi-family and mixed-used communities, luxury condominiums, and five-star hotels to cost-effective commercial and retail projects.