|  Ari
Meisel is the founder of ARISE Development, a company providing consulting to
those interested in redevelopment of old buildings. Having grown up in the
original SoHo, and with years of experience in real estate development and construction,
Ari is in a unique position of being able to provide services that other companies
cannot.
Ari has always had a head for business. He started his first
company, Liontex, a website design company, at the age of 12. When he was 16,
he started Menus-To-Go.com, an online listing of take-out and delivery menus in
New York and Philadelphia. He started TEK, a technology consulting group, doing
home theater, computer networks, and other home and business technologies, when
he was 17. Now at 22, Ari is finishing up the first phase of the North Depot Loft
project. e has been featured in "Management: Would-Be Entrepreneurs Shun
Dot-Coms" (New York Times May 2, 2001) and "Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur?"
(Link Magazine, May 2000). Most recently, the New York Times did a story on the
DEPOT project in May of 2004 entitled "A Son of Lower Manhattan Sees SoHo
in Upstate." | 
