Founded in 1985, United American Land LLC (UAL) is a family-owned real estate development, investment and management company based in Soho. Its principals, the brothers Albert, Jason and Jody Laboz, own and manage approximately forty properties in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They have restored, improved and reinvented historic buildings in Tribeca, Soho, Chelsea and the Flatiron district via conversion from commercial use to luxury residences. Among such projects are UAL's current initiative to restore the Arnold Constable & Company Building, a once-grand 19th-century block-long retail stalwart at the block bounded by Howard, Mercer and Canal Streets, to house elegant residential lofts with carriage trade retail on the street level. The Lyla, a 70,000-square foot retail and residential condominium building at 600 Sixth Avenue at 17th Street in Manhattan, is another recent UAL project.
Throughout downtown Manhattan, UAL has created spaces for high profile retail enterprises, including Dolce & Gabbana, Puma, Domenico Vaca and others. In Brooklyn, Albert Laboz serves as chairman of the Fulton Street Mall Association. The company has assembled a group of properties by Fulton Street, Bridge Street and Willoughby Street in downtown Brooklyn, adjacent to Metro-tech. This assemblage has over 1.3 million buildable square feet of air rights, which UAL will develop into a complex of mixed retail, residential and office use conceived to catalyze the future vitality of this important area.