Dan Lee
Managing Director
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- Full Name
- Dan Lee
- Firm
- Downtown Properties, LLC
- Firm Type
- Real estate investment, management and development
- Target Company Profile
- Real estate assets and platforms across commercial, residential, hospitality, land, office, retail, mixed-use, golf course and ski-resort categories
- Sector Focus
- Real estate; hospitality; office; retail; residential; mixed-use; land
- Geographic Focus
- Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Hawaii
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
Background
I could not find a public primary or reputable secondary source that independently verifies Dan Lee’s title, biography, education, personal angel-investing activity, LinkedIn profile, direct email, direct phone number, headshot, check size, or startup portfolio. The currently live Downtown Properties domain resolves to a parked “coming soon” page rather than a full operating website.
Archived Downtown Properties pages describe the firm as “a multi-faceted real estate investment, management and development company” and an associate of Gaw Capital Partners. The archived company page says Downtown Properties had more than 20 years of real-estate expertise and a portfolio spanning Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Hawaii, including commercial, residential, land, hotels and resorts.
Older archived Downtown Properties material says the company had been involved in U.S. real-estate acquisition and management since 1991, with a portfolio that included more than 2.5 million square feet of office buildings, hotels with more than 1,000 rooms, two 18-hole championship golf courses, a ski resort and residential redevelopment projects. The archived team page identifies Goodwin Gaw, not Dan Lee, as the firm’s Founder and Managing Principal.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Publicly available Downtown Properties materials indicate a real-estate thesis rather than a conventional startup angel-investing thesis: the firm says it focuses on “uncovering opportunities and adding value at every point, from every angle.”
- The archived platforms page states that Downtown Properties and Gaw Capital Partners had raised and managed more than $2 billion of capital, investing funds in residential, retail, office and other real-estate asset classes.
- The same archived platforms page says Downtown Properties’ direct investments had ranged from $5 million to $350 million and covered office, retail, mixed-use, residential, golf courses, ski resorts, land and hospitality.
- No public source found verifies Dan Lee’s personal seed-stage check size, angel-investing thesis, or startup-sector focus.
Notable Investments
- Bradbury Building: Historic Los Angeles office landmark identified in Downtown Properties materials as part of the firm’s portfolio.
- Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel: Los Angeles hotel listed in archived Downtown Properties materials as a notable property owned by the firm.
- One Bunker Hill Building: Historic Los Angeles office property listed in archived Downtown Properties materials as part of the portfolio.
- 818 W. 7th Street / Barker Brothers Building: Downtown Los Angeles property listed in archived Downtown Properties materials; the archived contact page placed the firm’s office at 818 West Seventh Street.
- Douglas Building Lofts: Downtown Los Angeles loft-conversion project described in archived Downtown Properties materials as one of the company’s redevelopment projects.
- Rowan Lofts: Historic redevelopment project listed in archived Downtown Properties materials.
- El Dorado Lofts: Historic redevelopment project listed in archived Downtown Properties materials.
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