CELADON PARTNERS

Affordable Housing Developer

Our Core Values

Reliability

Celadon Partners is proud of our commitment to deliver on promises by playing our role in meeting the housing needs of community residents through our participation in the construction of over 1500 units in the affordable housing development market.

Creativity

We use creativity to achieve imaginative possibilities through relentless exploration in our adaptive reuse residential developments, which is important when converting historically significant structures into modern, efficient and affordable housing.

Experience

We have the experience to develop projects of significant scale and complexity having completed numerous affordable housing developments, building trust with our partners through transparency and collaboration, successfully utilizing Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, and being pre-qualified as a developer of choice for many municipal programs.

Who We Are

Celadon Partners, LLC was formed by Scott Henry and Aron Weisner to continue the work of Celadon Holdings as a developer of dynamic and catalytic affordable housing. The Celadon team offers significant experience in affordable housing and real estate development, advisory, and investment, as well as underwriting expertise in the areas of market and financial analysis, and development risk management.

Celadon is a designated Qualified Developer for the City of Chicago Neighborhood Stabilization Program as well as a Pre-Qualified Developer for the Housing Authority of Cook County.  The firm has completed numerous affordable housing redevelopment projects and LIHTC transactions throughout the region, resulting in over 1500 units of new affordable housing units.

Meet Our Team

Scott Henry

Scott Henry has over 20 years of real estate development, investment, and asset management experience. He is a licensed architect, and has a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation. The first half of his career was spent in real estate banking at JP Morgan where he rose from analyst to Executive Director of the Tax Oriented Investments group which included the LIHTC investment group. He left the firm in 2008 to form Celadon Holdings, LLC to develop and consult on LIHTC projects.

Before forming Celadon Partners with Aron Weisner, Scott oversaw all operations of Celadon Holdings, developing a robust and successful pipeline of real estate development and consulting. His personal development portfolio includes seven stabilized projects and one project currently under construction on-schedule and on-budget in the City of Chicago. Four were developed using LIHTC financing. In addition to development on his own, Scott has consulted on 10 LIHTC projects totaling about 1,200 units.

Aron Weisner

Aron Weisner spent over 15 years as an executive at a national affordable housing investment firm, where he managed investment throughout the Midwest and South. He oversaw the investment of over $900 million in equity in affordable housing developments. Prior to this, Aron served on the working group that launched the Enterprise Green Communities building criteria and opened the development and investment operations in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Aron also formed Weisner Capital Advisors, LLC to support innovations in affordable housing development throughout the United States.

In 2019, Aron and Scott Henry formed Celadon Partners. Together, the Celadon Partners team has generated a strong pipeline of affordable housing properties, targeting unique projects in markets with a high need for affordable housing.

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Go Green!

While the company name (Celadon) is a shade of green correlating with the way we attack projects, we strongly believe in investing heavily on keeping our buildings:

Well insulated

Watertight

Utilize low VOC paints

Install Energy Star appliances and HVAC systems

Use solar hot water systems to help keep the tenant’s energy bills to a minimum

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