No less than 22 parcels totaling greater than 100 acres in and round Whispering Pines space inside Joshua Tree Nationwide Park have modified palms since 2021, spurring issues amongst neighbors over potential growth. Right here’s what public data and different sources reveal concerning the house owners, who’ve declined to debate their plans for the properties:
— Two parcels have been bought by Peter Nawara of Greenwich, CT, a former worker of actual property funding firm Starwood Capital Group, and managing accomplice of Darkhorse Tactical Investments of Greenwich.
— One parcel was purchased by Darkhorse accomplice John Woodruff and one by accomplice Saheer Mathrani.
— One parcel was purchased by Sahil Abbi, co-founder of an organization known as Wetstone that describes itself as a growth platform for the seafloor minerals worth chain. Abbi and Mathrani have been beforehand companions in Gasp, a New York-based artistic studio and incubator.
The remaining heaps have been bought by 17 separate Delaware-based restricted legal responsibility firms (LLCs) with hyperlinks to Darkhorse companions, relations or enterprise associates. Of those:
— Seven of the LLCs checklist a mailing deal with of a Greenwich, Conn., property owned by Nawara, his spouse and an LLC. Actual property listings present this as a six-bedroom, 8,540-square foot property in a gated group on the border of Greenwich and Armonk, N.Y.
— Two of the LLCs that offered Nawara’s deal with to the assessor have been till 2022 managed by Sophia Kanavos, in response to enterprise switch data.
— Two different LLCs that offered Nawara’s deal with to the assessor filed deeds of belief that have been signed by John R. Ceriale on behalf of the LLCs.
— Three LLCs checklist as their deal with a house in Greenwich, Conn., that was previously owned by Woodruff and his then-wife, who offered the property for greater than $3.9 million in 2023.
— Two LLCs offered the deal with of a penthouse condominium in Brooklyn that’s owned by yet one more LLC, however which Mathrani additionally offered as his mailing deal with when he bought a Whispering Pines property in his title.
— One LLC offered a mailing deal with of a residence on the 4 Seasons Surf Membership in Surfside, Fla., that was beforehand owned by former WeWork CEO Sandeep Mathrani, who offered the residence for $21 million in 2023. Sandeep Mathrani additionally in 2023 signed a county Land Use Companies Division doc stating he owned the property bought by the LLC.
— 4 LLCs offered a mailing deal with of a penthouse condominium contained in the Miami Seaside Version Resort that’s owned by Richard Pesin. Pesin was president and COO of Fort Level LLC, a Miami firm managed by Sandeep Mathrani that he dissolved in October 2024.
— One of many LLCs that offered Pesin’s deal with to the assessor lists a unique deal with on the deed — a Chicago dwelling owned by Liz Holland, CEO and basic counsel of Abbell Associates, a non-public actual property firm that primarily redevelops purchasing facilities.
In 2023, Holland signed a county Land Use Companies Division doc stating she owned the property bought by the LLC. Holland previously served with Sandeep Mathrani on the board of the Worldwide Council of Procuring Facilities and was additionally a registered agent of Fort Level LLC, public data state. She didn’t return a name searching for remark.
Analysis by Scott Wilson, Alex Wigglesworth and Lila Seidman.