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The man behind the Gemini Rosemont deal: Dan Burrell
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Dan Burrell

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Santa Fe’s Rosemont Realty
<http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/us/nm/santa_fe/rosemont_realty_llc/3340873>
officially became a new company Monday — *Gemini Rosemont Realty LLC
<http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/blog/morning-edition/2015/08/santa-fe-s-rosemont-realty-joins-forces-with-hong.html>*.
The move marks a partnership with Hong Kong-based Gemini Investments
(Holdings) Limited, an investment arm of Sino-Ocean Land Holdings, which is
a major player in the commercial property business in China.

The man who is the main force behind the deal is Santa Fe’s Dan Burrell
<albuquerque/search/results?q=Dan Burrell>. He has quickly risen in the New
Mexico business community as an effective entrepreneur and force in
bringing much-needed capital to the state.

Burrell led the negotiations with Gemini on behalf of Rosemont. He’d been
on Rosemont’s board of advisers after resigning as CEO in 2013 to tackle a
new venture in southern New Mexico. That venture, under Burrell Western
Resources, came after the East Coast native *discovered potentially $1
billion worth of industrial grade garnet
<http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2013/12/12/burrell-billion-dollar-garnet-mine.html>*
in an area near Anthony — a project that is still underway.

Most recently, Burrell and his family led the effort to launch the *$105
million private medical school
<http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2015/07/24/las-cruces-medical-school-seeks-recruits-for-first.html>*—
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine — on the campus of New Mexico State
University
<http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/us/nm/las_cruces/new_mexico_state_university/2346542>
.

That massive and significant project is not his first partnership with the
school either. He also orchestrated the New Mexico Leadership Institute
with both NMSU and the University of New Mexico
<http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/us/nm/albuquerque/university_of_new_mexico/3208591>,
to provide scholarships and mentoring to budding entrepreneurial-minded
students in the state.

A master at bringing together people and money, Burrell has been traveling
to Asia extensively in past months, raising money for other projects and
forming a relationship with Gemini Investments.

He began negotiations to create Gemini Rosemont in earnest once he learned
Gemini Investments was interested in jumping into the U.S. market to
acquire more properties.

“I worked very closely with the Rosemont management team to push this
transaction across the finish line,” Burrell said. “Partnering with Gemini
is an enormous opportunity. This is a company with a long track record of
success and we’re very lucky at Rosemont to have them as our partner.”

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Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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