The Team
A LEGENDARY, VISIONARY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Buyers should rightly ask about the track record of any development team — architects, contractors, financial partners, and the developer itself. Are they experienced in the West Palm market? Are past clients pleased with the quality and durability of the delivered condominium residences and amenities? Are the design teams, contractors, and financial partners established, trusted, and experienced?
On all these fronts, The Ronto Group and its trusted team welcome — indeed, encourage — this conversation, as the group has repeatedly delivered projects of similar scope and scale with exceptional success up and down the Gulf Coast, especially landmark projects in Naples and Sarasota. Their reputation is for consistently delivering value without compromise.
Principal Developers
Principal Developers
The Ronto Group
Along the storied Gulf Coast, from tony Naples to trending Sarasota, stand landmarks of grace and sophistication. Condominiums, yes — but beyond that, they are monuments to quality and commitment. All are exclusively residential and, as such, must satisfy owners — a far more demanding audience than the transient hotel guest.
For more than 50 years, The Ronto Group has earned an enviable reputation for projects that make an immediate and lasting contribution to their communities. Now, Ronto brings this collective experience and vision to West Palm Beach. The benefit to future owners at Nora House is a richly experienced developer — one that is passionate about quality and as true to its word as its craft.
Recent Florida residential partnerships with Ronto include Amara on Sarasota Bay, Rosewood Residences Lido Key, Rosewood Residences Naples, The Owen (Sarasota), Seaglass, Omega, Eleven Eleven Central, and Infinity at The Colony.
Capital Partners
Wheelock Street Capital
Wheelock Street Capital L.L.C. is the primary capital source at Nora House, indeed, the entire visionary development that is the Nora District.
Wheelock is a private real estate investment firm founded in 2008 by Merrick R. Kleeman and Jonathan H. Paul, two veteran real estate private equity investors, each with over 30 years of broad real estate transaction experience across all major asset classes. Wheelock has assembled a premier investment and asset management team and produced a 10+ year track record of demonstrated and consistent outperformance over industry benchmarks.
Since inception, Wheelock has raised seven funds, representing over $4 billion in capital commitments and deployed over $5 billion in total value on behalf of well-known institutional investors. Its in-house expertise in hospitality, residential land, multifamily, industrial, office, and retail effectively provides an existing foundation for direct opportunistic and long-term value investing.
Recent Florida residential partnerships with Ronto include Amara on Sarasota Bay, Rosewood Residences Lido Key, Rosewood Residences Naples, The Owen (Sarasota), Seaglass, Omega, Eleven Eleven Central and Infinity at The Colony.
Architecture
Swedroe Architecture
Swedroe Architecture has been recognized as one of the top Miami architecture firms for more than 45 years. The firm has designed and completed hundreds of projects in Miami and around the world. From luxury high-rise condominiums to elegant hotel condominiums, each building is designed from the inside out to maximize overall efficiency and the utilization of space. As a result, its open, well-appointed, view-oriented designs have consistently created enhanced value for both developers and owners.
Interior Design
Lillian Wu Studio
Lillian Wu Studio is a boutique, award-winning interior design studio based in New York City. Its design palette reflects a sophisticated, modern décor sensibility. Strategic window placement to frame views, along with custom light fixtures, furnishings, and decorative objects, are among the innovative and distinctive touches the firm brings to its projects.
Lillian Wu Studio has led the interior design for luxury Rosewood properties around the world, including locations in Bangkok, Myanmar, and Washington, D.C. The studio is engaged with The Ronto Group for amenity and residential design at Rosewood Residences at Lido Key and Naples, Amara on Sarasota Bay, and now at Nora House.
Builders
Conner & Gaskins
A nationally recognized builder, Connor & Gaskins Unlimited has completed projects in more than 40 states. Known for its expertise in project management and disciplined processes, more than 90% of its clients return to the firm time and again because of the quality of its workmanship and large team of skilled subcontractors.
Completed projects include hotels and resorts, condominiums, mixed-use multifamily and retail projects, travel centers, medical and office buildings, as well as restaurants and clubhouses. Among CGU’s most relevant projects are the new Amara on Sarasota Bay, Ronto’s 24-story Altura Bayshore condominium in Tampa, and the complete renovation of The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.
Landscape Architecture
Landscape
Architecture
Design Studio Boca
Design Studio Boca is a design-oriented landscape architecture and planning firm based in Boca Raton, a coastal resort community on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Palm Beach County, Florida. The firm specializes in water-oriented resorts, hotels, high-rise condominiums, master-planned communities, and mixed-use projects.
Its services include schematic design, marketing graphics, permit landscape plans, design development, hardscape construction documents, planting and irrigation design, environmental lighting, and construction administration. Its projects can be found throughout Florida, Texas, and Louisiana, as well as across the Southeast coastal region and the Caribbean.