About the Owner, Ben Arnold
Ben received his CCIM designation, Certified Commercial Investment Manager, in 1996 and is a licensed real estate appraiser in South Carolina and Georgia. He is an active member of the S.C. Board of Realtors and the Urban Land Institute. He purchased, renovated and sold 835 conventional multi-family units between 1994 and 1999 and has been active in the acquisition, development and management of numerous office, warehouse and retail properties in South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida. Throughout his professional career in development, he has developed or redeveloped many projects in the Columbia area, including The Depot Building, Vista Station Entertainment Complex, 700 Gervais Street Offices, Vista Lofts Apartments, Lady and Gadsden Street blocks, Windhill Distribution Center, ChemStation, the Lake Carolina Retail/Office Building, Lake Carolina Live/Work Townhomes, Parkside Center at Lake Carolina, Stephenson Offices, GranDevine Condominiums, Renaissance Plaza Condominiums, Shandon Square Subdivision and Southlake Village Retirement Community.
Ben D. Arnold is president of both Arnold Family Corporation and Arnold Construction Corporation and has been in the real estate field for 13 years. He is a native of Columbia, South Carolina and graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in Finance and Real Estate. Ben is the Vice President of Arnold Companies, which leases and manages approximately 700,000 square feet of office, warehouse and retail space in South Carolina. Prior to the positions that he currently holds, Ben was the president of Ben. D. Arnold Property and Tax Consulting Company, where he represented $1,000,000,000 in assessed value of commercial and residential real estate in the Southeast.
His civic involvement includes being on the board of the Cancer Center for Treatment and Research, the Palmetto Health Alliance and the Jewish Federation Board in Columbia, South Carolina. Ben also serves on the Richland County Board of Assessment Control and serves on the Board of Directors for Bank Meridian, the Columbia Jewish Community Center, Trustus Theatre Capital Campaign Committee, The Columbia Jewish Day School, EdVenture Children’s Museum, Vistage International CEO Network, Engenuity SC, and the Heathwood Hall Episcopal School Board. Ben provided The Cooperative Ministry, Volunteers of America, Palmetto Aids League and the Winter Shelter to have adequate facilities to conduct business by reducing market rent to a rent that was and/or is affordable to these charities.
Ben’s awards include March of Dimes Honoree in 2006, two awards from the Historic Columbia Foundation including the Depot Building in 1999 for renovation and expansion of a train depot originally constructed in 1852 and the Vista Lofts in 2003 for New Construction in a Historic Context. In 2004, Ben received The State Newspaper’s Columbia Business Journal “20 Under 40” Achievement Award. The most recent award from the Historic Columbia Foundation for Adaptive Reuse went to the redevelopment project GranDevine in 2008.
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123 Gibson Road
Lexington, SC 2907
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Fax: 803.356.1168
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