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Westside Capital Group, also known as Westside, is a diversified real estate investment holding firm headquartered in Miami with additional offices in New York and London. Westside focuses on creating long-term value by integrating direct asset and corporate investments along the real estate value chain. Westside’s real estate portfolio includes multi-family, hospitality and other commercial assets both in the United States and Europe.

Westside was founded in 2016 as an opportunistic real estate investment firm by Jakub Hejl , who had previously worked at New-York based real estate private equity firms DRA Advisors, LLC and Westbrook Partners. The firm was founded after a series of initial meetings with New York based family offices held on the Upper West Side of Manhattan thus naming the firm Westside Capital Group.

The firm targets cash-flowing assets at discounts to replacement costs with additional upside for value creation. Westside establishes individual operating platforms within the firm with a desire to strengthen economies of scale, operating expertise, and exit optionality. The firm’s existing platforms focus on multifamily residential properties and hotels. Westside’s strategy within asset classes, capital structures and markets shifts based on macro-economic considerations.

The firm’s notable acquisitions include an apartment complex in close proximity to Florida’s Legoland with total project capitalization of $29 million , an apartment complex on the Space Coast of Florida with additional development upside at total capitalization of $13 million, an apartment complex in Tampa, FL with total project capitalization of $26 million , an apartment complex in the Southeast United States with total project capitalization of $20 million , and, among others, an apartment complex in Tampa, FL with a total project capitalization of $42 million. The firm also recently acquired other hospitality and commercial assets.

Aside from real estate private equity activities, the firm announced a new platform focused on user experience and product design within the real estate space in response to increasing importance of user experience. Westside Experience Center is an ecosystem of talent, environment, and solutions, combining the best of creatives, technologists and innovators to change the next-generation real estate experiences for customers, occupiers and tenants. Westside has created this platform to fuel its venture capital program as well as its real estate private equity program.