Carl Kuehner III, chairman of family-owned Building and Land Technology, is one of Stamford’s most prominent developers, having transformed the city’s South End over the years.
In 2008, Building and Land Technology bought an ambitious Harbor Point development project from Antares Investment Partners that, to this day, involves redeveloping 80 acres in the city’s once industrial South End.
So far, the mixed-use waterfront development includes residential housing, office and retail spaces, parks, and a boardwalk.
Last year, BLT, headquartered at 100 Washington Blvd., and New York-based hotel management company MCR Hotels closed a $632 million refinancing on a portfolio of 53 hotels totaling 5,958 rooms that they co-own across the United States.
In 2023, Stamford’s Zoning Board approved the company’s plan to convert its former Stamford headquarters, at 100 Elmcroft Road, into 256 apartments.
According to BLT’s website, the company’s portfolio includes over 4,000 units of Class A apartments in three markets, 6 million square feet of office space, and over 50 hotels.
According to a 2013 Stamford Advocate article, Kuehner — who grew up in New Canaan, where his father Carl Kuehner Jr. was a housing developer — keeps a relatively low public profile, rarely granting media interviews.
The article described him as a hard-charging developer.
Michael Freimuth, current head of the Capital Region Development Authority and Stamford’s former economic development chief, told the Advocate in 2013 Kuehner is “tough, tenacious, determined. He’s one of those guys who gets in and gets things done.”