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May 2024
Opened in Los Angeles in 2015, Toca Madera reimagines traditional Mexican cuisine by taking a modern approach using locally-sourced and sustainable ingredients paired with bold flavors. The shared-plate menu is designed to offer options for everyone, including those who are vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free. The restaurant features a dynamic farm-to-glass cocktail program using fresh, seasonal ingredients, and offers a versatile selection of the finest tequilas and mezcals. Toca Madera’s signature design features Arabesque accents, handcrafted custom woodwork, and numerous fire elements, all contributing to the alluring Modern Organic aesthetic.
Owned and operated by Tosh Berman and Amrou Manaseer of The Madera Group, Toca Madera’s expansion plans include openings in Dubai and Scottsdale. For more information please visit: www.tocamadera.com or follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @TocaMaderaLA.
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Jun 2021
Love home runs? Youre in the right place. Home Run Dugout (HRD) is a brand new way to play Americas pastime.
HRD is a baseball/softball-themed entertainment company looking to “Make America’s pastime more accessible and entertaining for players of all ages and skill levels.” The experience is centered around HRD’s patented Batting Bays where players compete against friends/family/coworkers in various batting games tailored to all skill levels using proprietary ground-up pitching machines and virtual baseball stadiums. Additionally, HRD locations offer high-quality food and beverage offerings from a full-service sports bar/restaurant.
After proving the concept’s popularity and economics at their first facility in Round Rock, TX, HRD recently opened its first full-scale venue in Katy, TX. Backed by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan (Ryan-Sanders Baseball) and entertainment industry experts Ring on Hook and Arco Murray (TopGolf, iFly, Chicken N Pickle, PuttShack, Andretti, etc.) HRD is on track to open 3-5 additional facilities in the next three years. Additionally, HRD started execution on a product licensing strategy that leverages their patented technology to put HRD Batting Bays into partner facilities.
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Dec 2019
Proto Homes is an industrialized homebuilding platform. Proto Platform is the world’s first web-based platform to Bring the Industrial Production Model to Homebuilding.
The Proto Platform offers homebuilders everywhere access to a Lego-like set of proprietary integrated components that can be assembled into fully customizable homes at any size, as well as a suite of app-based tools to manage the production and installation of the components. Additionally, the platform will support a JIT component delivery system and connect homebuilders to a nationwide network of prescreened design and building professionals who are trained in designing with and installing the components.
Component manufacturing and delivery are handled by local Proto Fulfillment Centers, which are independently owned and operated and licensed by Proto Homes. The Proto Platform provides these local fulfillment centers with all the essentials, including manufacturing capabilities and access to an industrial supply chain, enabling small, regional builders to finally build homes as efficiently and cheaply as the large builders servicing the Base Market.
Its easy to imagine a future in which the homebuilding industry is simply further consolidated by large scale builders. In this future, these players have little incentive to change how they build and little to offer the market other than size and more of the same. Productivity in the homebuilding industry continues to lag and the domestic housing shortage deepens further aggravating the housing market.
In the future envisioned by Proto Homes, the cottage homebuilding industry will consolidate around building platforms rather than a select handful of legacy builders. As the homebuilding industry becomes productized, these new platforms will serve as a one-stop shop for every aspect of the homebuilding process, from design to permitting to materials procurement and production, assembly, post-occupancy services and more.
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2024
Investor
May 2024
Opened in Los Angeles in 2015, Toca Madera reimagines traditional Mexican cuisine by taking a modern approach using locally-sourced and sustainable ingredients paired with bold flavors. The shared-plate menu is designed to offer options for everyone, including those who are vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free. The restaurant features a dynamic farm-to-glass cocktail program using fresh, seasonal ingredients, and offers a versatile selection of the finest tequilas and mezcals. Toca Madera’s signature design features Arabesque accents, handcrafted custom woodwork, and numerous fire elements, all contributing to the alluring Modern Organic aesthetic.
Owned and operated by Tosh Berman and Amrou Manaseer of The Madera Group, Toca Madera’s expansion plans include openings in Dubai and Scottsdale. For more information please visit: www.tocamadera.com or follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @TocaMaderaLA.
2022
Managing Partner
Nov 2022
Palo Duro Commercial Partners was created as a full-service brokerage and development company specializing in retail, multifamily & self-storage in fast growing master planned communities where there is a need for accessible retail and services in upcoming neighborhoods.
info@palodurocp.com
2021
Investor
Jun 2021
Love home runs? Youre in the right place. Home Run Dugout (HRD) is a brand new way to play Americas pastime.
HRD is a baseball/softball-themed entertainment company looking to “Make America’s pastime more accessible and entertaining for players of all ages and skill levels.” The experience is centered around HRD’s patented Batting Bays where players compete against friends/family/coworkers in various batting games tailored to all skill levels using proprietary ground-up pitching machines and virtual baseball stadiums. Additionally, HRD locations offer high-quality food and beverage offerings from a full-service sports bar/restaurant.
After proving the concept’s popularity and economics at their first facility in Round Rock, TX, HRD recently opened its first full-scale venue in Katy, TX. Backed by Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan (Ryan-Sanders Baseball) and entertainment industry experts Ring on Hook and Arco Murray (TopGolf, iFly, Chicken N Pickle, PuttShack, Andretti, etc.) HRD is on track to open 3-5 additional facilities in the next three years. Additionally, HRD started execution on a product licensing strategy that leverages their patented technology to put HRD Batting Bays into partner facilities.
2019
Investor
Dec 2019
Proto Homes is an industrialized homebuilding platform. Proto Platform is the world’s first web-based platform to Bring the Industrial Production Model to Homebuilding.
The Proto Platform offers homebuilders everywhere access to a Lego-like set of proprietary integrated components that can be assembled into fully customizable homes at any size, as well as a suite of app-based tools to manage the production and installation of the components. Additionally, the platform will support a JIT component delivery system and connect homebuilders to a nationwide network of prescreened design and building professionals who are trained in designing with and installing the components.
Component manufacturing and delivery are handled by local Proto Fulfillment Centers, which are independently owned and operated and licensed by Proto Homes. The Proto Platform provides these local fulfillment centers with all the essentials, including manufacturing capabilities and access to an industrial supply chain, enabling small, regional builders to finally build homes as efficiently and cheaply as the large builders servicing the Base Market.
Its easy to imagine a future in which the homebuilding industry is simply further consolidated by large scale builders. In this future, these players have little incentive to change how they build and little to offer the market other than size and more of the same. Productivity in the homebuilding industry continues to lag and the domestic housing shortage deepens further aggravating the housing market.
In the future envisioned by Proto Homes, the cottage homebuilding industry will consolidate around building platforms rather than a select handful of legacy builders. As the homebuilding industry becomes productized, these new platforms will serve as a one-stop shop for every aspect of the homebuilding process, from design to permitting to materials procurement and production, assembly, post-occupancy services and more.
2014
Principal & Development Partner
Aug 2014
Hunington Properties was established in 1984 by Sandy P. Aron. Since that time, he has built a team of like-minded professionals who realize commercial real estate success is built on a combination of honor, perseverance, market savvy, hard work, and a commitment to helping clients achieve their financial objectives.
This dedication to maximizing the value of our clients’ real estate has resulted in steady, continual growth for the firm in terms of total employees, geographic coverage, and total square footage. Over the past few years– representing one of the most challenging real estate markets in history – Hunington Properties annual milestones include:
As a private commercial brokerage firm, the focus of Hunington Properties is always on our clients, not on Wall Street. Our flat and entrepreneurial organizational structure and hands-on management means that we can quickly react and adjust to ever-changing market conditions. Our experience and insight allows us to identify and capitalize on market trends often well in advance of our larger competitors. And our dedicated in-house support allows our professionals to do what they do best – help our clients get the most out of their real estate.
Please visit www.hpiproperties.com for more information.
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