Will Obeid is an experienced real estate investor with expertise in developing hospitality and commercial properties. In 2014, he established Arcade Capital LLC to focus on developing and managing real estate in the global wellness economy. As the principal of Arcade, Will Obeid guides the firm’s investment portfolio, which focuses on thriving cities and destination resorts. Current projects include a hotel property in NY’s Hudson Valley, and the recent acquisition of a large resort in Napa Valley.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Obeid served as President and CEO of Gemini Real Estate Advisors LLC in New York. Throughout his tenure with the firm, he built a real estate portfolio worth $1.5 billion, including 15 hotels and more than 4.3 million square feet of retail space.
At Gemini, Will Obeid created two distinctive lifestyle hospitality brands: The Jade Hotel and The Gem Hotel. The Jade Hotel was designed as an upper-upscale, full-service boutique hotel that showcased the charm of local neighborhoods such as New York’s Greenwich Village. Mr. Obeid studied classical architecture and assembled a winning team of architects and interior design experts during the project. The result was a hotel that won praise from guests and the media and received the 2014 Stanford White Award for Commercial, Civic, and Institutional Architecture. Meanwhile, The Gem Hotel was a pioneer in the highly successful, urban “micro-hotel” concept later used by several other hospitality brands.