About the author

Benjamin Rohr

Benjamin Rohr is the founder of Light Tower Group. The firm arranges debt, equity and recapitalization capital for commercial real estate sponsors, in New York and nationwide. He has evaluated more than $8 billion of transactions and placed over $100 million.

Sponsors come to him before the capital structure is fixed. He defines the request, sizes it, and takes it only to the lenders and investors whose mandate fits. Bridge and construction debt, joint venture and preferred equity, mezzanine and co-GP — recapitalization when the stack no longer works. He runs each process through closing himself. There is no retainer; the fee follows the result.

His reading runs wider than his desk. A balance sheet in the morning, an ancient text at night — he looks for the structure the two share. Ideas that survive both are the ones he keeps.

His essays gather under one title: Letters to the Infinite. They range across culture, moral leadership and political economy — how societies change, and what they should refuse to trade away for the change. The questions are old. The consequences are not abstract: character becomes habit, habit becomes institution, and institutions decide how people live.

The markets and arguments that formed him are still the ones he works in. He writes for people who distrust easy answers and still believe ideas should change how we act.

The pattern holds across all of it: go past the familiar, see the whole, bring something back.