Meadow Partners

Meadow Partners is a real estate investment firm with offices in New York and London that was founded in 2009 by Jeffrey Kaplan.

In its first year, the firm closed its first fund for $200 million, and in 2013 Meadow Partners raised funds for a second fund. Meadow has invested over $1.5 billion of equity and has acquired more than $5 billion of real estate assets in its target markets of New York City, Washington, D.C., London, and Paris.

The firm bought its first Manhattan hotel in 2014, the Bedford Hotel at 118 East 40th Street. That same year Meadow Partners paid $50 million for a Comfort Inn hotel on 35th Street, then promptly Hotel 35 Herald Square (later rebranded as the Gregory Hotel). Its interest in Manhattan transferred into Brooklyn shortly thereafter. In 2016 the firm paid $42 million to convert a former Williamsburg pleating factory into an office building. That year Meadow was also part of a deal that was the priciest residential deal in the Greenpoint neighborhood, selling the Viridian rental property to World Wide Group for $103 million.

In 2020, with the hospitality industry reeling from the COVID pandemic, Meadow Partners was embroiled in a controversy over unpaid wages at the Gregory Hotel near Herald Square. The hotel manager, Highgate Hotels, said in a lawsuit that it withheld wages because owner Meadow Partners refused to top off the property’s operating account used to fund payroll.