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On April 28, 2016, innovative real estate investment firm Arx Urban acquired the 8,982 square foot parcel at 4198-4206 Washington Street in Roslindale Village. The single-story retail strip is located steps to the Roslindale MBTA Commuter Rail and follows a stream of recent development activity around Adams Park. Eastern Bank financed the transaction.

Benjie Moll, founder of Arx Urban, an innovative real estate investment firm, provides insight into how he got his start, the trials and tribulations of the first few years growing his own platform, and advice for other real estate entrepreneurs.

On Monday, Mayor Martin J. Walsh welcomed the newly selected Mayor's ONEin3 Council to City Hall. The diverse 37-member group, which included Arx Urban Founder, Benjie Moll, will spend the next 12 months working with the City on projects aimed at maximizing the talents of Boston's 20-34 year old demographic, which is one third of the City's total population.

Crowdfunding will significantly change the landscape of real estate investing. Join Michael Bull, Host of the Commercial Real Estate Show as he discusses what to expect from crowd sourced capital in the real estate industry with experts, Benjie Moll and Doug Ellenoff at DisruptCRE in Boston. 

Last Thursday afternoon, the Seaport’s District Hall hosted DisruptCRE, a “first-of-its-kind commercial real estate/technology event designed to connect disruptive ideas with capital and commercial real estate professionals." Crowdfunding: A Tectonic Shift in Real Estate Investing panelists Benjie Moll and Bonnie Burgett discussed the latest emerging avenue for investing in real estate—crowdfunding.

The Real Reporter profiled the acquisition of One Merrimac by Arx Urban in partnership with New York City based Atlas Real Estate Partners. One Merrimac is a 100% occupied high-street retail space and 20-space surface parking lot with the largest electric vehicle charging capacity in Boston. The site has nearly 32,000 square feet of future development rights and the acquisition was closed with a loan from Cambridge Savings Bank.

Arx Urban Founder, Benjie Moll, collaborated with Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business Professor John H. Vogel Jr. on an academic overview of the real estate crowdfunding landscape.