Rob Levy is one of the Founders and Managing Partners of LBX Investments. Along with his Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner, Phil Block, Rob guides overall corporate strategy and is responsible for the growth of the platform, acquisitions and execution of the firm’s strategy. Through his leadership, LBX has built a premier portfolio of shopping centers throughout the country with a concentration in the Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Since 2016, Rob and Phil have led over $400 million in acquisitions.
Rob has more than 30 years of real estate experience. Prior to launching LBX in February 2018, Rob co-founded BVC, an investment vehicle focused on acquiring Southeastern U.S. shopping centers. While at BVC, he oversaw and underwrote the partnership’s 11 Southeastern U.S. shopping enter acquisitions and managed all capital raising (both debt and equity) and asset management efforts. Prior to BVC, Rob was Chief Operating Officer of the Real Estate Group at Benefit Street Partners, a multi-strategy credit manager with over $11.0 billion in assets under management. Prior to Benefit Street, Rob held various positions at Centerline Capital Group, including Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Centerline’s parent company, Centerline Holding Company.
Centerline was a publicly traded multifamily finance and asset management company with a national scope mortgage banking platform and over $13 billion in equity and debt under management. Rob joined Centerline in 2001 as the Director of Capital Markets. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Vice President in the Real Estate Equity Research and Investment Banking departments at Robertson Stephens, an investment banking firm. Prior to 1998, Rob worked at Prudential Securities in the real estate equity research group and at the Prudential Realty Group, the real estate investment arm of the Prudential Insurance Company. Rob received his MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and his BA in Economics from Northwestern University. Rob grew up on Long Island and resides in New Jersey with his wife, two sons and a daughter.
