The Company

A multidisciplinary team of professionals with extensive worldwide experience, each in his own field, providing AltraResorts with a strong collective knowledge, allowing us to offer owners, developers, governments and municipalities a comprehensive range of advisory and strategic services toward resort as well as urban developments.

  • Land Planning
  • Urban planning
  • Master planning
  • Development
  • Architecture
  • Financing
  • Marketing & Sales

 

The Objectives

  • Enhance property value through planned development and technical innovation
  • Respect the natural environment
  • Meet the technical challenges of large scale urban and resort development
  • Explore economical, political, social and esthetic interests to create lasting concepts in a multitude of countries and on several continents
  • Match projects, expectations and sites
  • Listen, understand and conceptualize architectural designs for modern living
  • Syndicate risk

 

Our Resort Development Philosophy

  • Belonging: Look and love concept with residents and visitors at the center of the urban and sociological planning.
  • Singularity: Analyze the site potential and the objectives to make the critical and fundamental choices to design bold, ambitious, innovative features and infrastructures to set the resort apart for all competitors. Brand the resort.
  • Uniqueness: Linking a succession of historical, architectural and natural iconic landmarks to tell a story and to take the visitor for an emotional discovery stroll through the resort.
  • Critical mass: Plan sufficient real estate and infrastructure developments with sufficient variety to achieve credibility level providing national and international diversified attendance. Plan activity poles to create young and not so young permanent residents.
  • Four seasons: Critical mass combined with a diversity of attractive year around activities will provide the necessary spontaneous animation to financially support all the businesses of the resort and create employment.
  • Animation: Plan all types of events, shows, expositions, contests, festivals throughout the year: cultural, artistic, sportive.

 

The Principals

Bernard Lamy : Land & Urban Planner, Architect, Developer

Mr. Lamy has more than 40 years of experience in architecture and urban planning. He owns and manages 2 complementary entities, ARCAD consultant in urban planning and Inter-Faces specializing in architecture and design, employing over 15 architects.

Mr. Lamy has been working with French elected officials as a consultant for the planning and development of several neighborhoods of Paris, establishing guidelines for large projects. He was the Chief Architect for one of the largest French projects undertaken in recent times – a new district adjacent to the Paris financial center of La Défense, called Faubourg de l’Arche. This project has 310,000 m² of office space, 445,000 m² of living space, 33,000 m² of retail space and 28,000 m² of hotel space.

For the past 30 years Mr. Lamy has been advising La Défense officials, as well as the Conseil Général, and contributing urban solutions to reshape, enhance and maintain the added value of La Défense. He has conceived and designed several key projects of La Défense, such as the CNIT and four high-rise buildings.

Mr. Lamy also has a considerable experience in leisure development design worldwide. Recent key achievements include seaside resorts in the South of France, the Bahamas and the Caribbean, as well as major mountain resorts in the French Alps, the United States and Canada.

Mr. Lamy graduated from Beaux Arts of Paris and is a certified Engineer of the Centre Scientifique et Technique du
Batiment in Paris. He is a member of the C2D92 (Council for Sustainable Development of the Hauts de Seine), in charge of the Grand Paris and of the CDAC (Hauts de Seine Department Commission for Commercial Development. His most recent resort projects include :

Alto Tower (building permit completed) Land Planner, Chief Architect
Le Faubourg de l’Arche – La Défense, France Land Planner, Chief Architect
Hermitage Plaza, Paris Urban and architectural consultant
Channel Building, Paris Architect
Port Saint Nikola, Croatia Land Planner, Chief Architect, Developer
Cap Cana, Dominican Republic Chief Architect, Co-developer
Tamarack Resort (ex WestRock), Idaho, USA Land Planner, Architect, Co-developer

 

Charles Elzear de Sabran – Ponteves: Real Estate Developer, Investor, Financier

Mr. de Sabran, the 8th duc of Sabran, is the descendant of an illustrious family, issued from a knight order, based in the South of France. He was educated in France and graduated from EDHEC Business School in Lille. His devotion to his wife, a member of a prominent Croatian family, who played a leading role in the country’s independence, created his very strong ties and his profound interest for Croatia and its future.

During the past 25 years Mr. de Sabran participated, as developer and/or partner, in many sizeable commercial center, office building and residential developments in France, Europe and USA. In 1999 he invested consecutively in two innovating sectors. Developing an environmentally friendly process for the preservation of cooked meals in collaboration with INRA (French National Institute for Agronomical Research) and CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), filing international patents, creating a pilot workshop at Len???tre, Paris, the internationally renowned pastry chef, creating an industrial plant in Burgundy. Developing a new financial product and settling several securitized closed-end funds with investments in forfaiting papers. Specifics of the fund involved credit enhanced senior notes totaling 100 millions US Dollars placed on the institutional market by ING Baring New York.

His most recent resort projects include :
Port Saint Nikola, Croatia CEO, Partner, Developer
Avranches Commercial Center (6,000m?) Developer, investing partner
Les Mureaux Commercial Center (22,000m?) Developer, investing partner
Bordeaux Commercial Center (80,000m?) Developer, investing partner
Chambourcy Commercial Center (60,000m?) Developer, investing partner
Houston, TX Office Building (60,000m?) Developer, investing partner
Tamaris Marina, Toulon (400 condominiums) Developer, investing partner
Port Ripaille, Thonon (600 villas and boat slips) Developer, investing partner

 

James P. McElroy : Business Development , Finance

Mr. McElroy brings strong business, managerial and financial experience to this team, with a lifetime involvement in international trade and finance. He was educated in Switzerland where he graduated from the EPFL (???cole Polytechnique F???d???rale), the Swiss engineering, school with a Master in Chemical Engineering. After learning the tools of international trade in London (finance, shipping, documentary transactions), he moved to California in 1980 to start a new business focusing on China.

Mr. McElroy was the sole owner and President of Altraco Inc until 2010, a California corporation he formed in 1980 to trade with the Asian markets – mainly China and India, a leading importer of Chinese industrial tools, steel castings and forgings. As CFO of WestRock, Mr. McElroy contributed to raising the project’s first $45 million in equity and debt, assisted in all initial phases of development, entitlement, concepts, architecture, equipment selection. He recognized the great opportunity and potential of the Cap Cana property, identified the Dominican party who initiated the project and build the first phase, was instrumental in the concept, the design guidelines and the launch of Cap Cana, with a first sale of 60 beach front lots and 30 golf side lots, generating in excess of $70 million. He recently formed Agora (HK) Ltd., a partnership of multidisciplinary real estate experienced specialists, with extensive worldwide experience, to promote planning and development services in Asia.

His most recent resort projects include :
Port Saint Nikola, Croatia CFO, Partner, Developer
Cap Cana, Dominican Republic Financial Advisor, Co-developer, President AltraResorts
Tamarack Resort (ex WestRock), Idaho, USA CFO, Board Member, Investor