Silver Street Hospitality provides hands on consulting and development services to restaurant, real estate, retail and hotel developers.  Silver Street leverages its deep industry relationships to form customized client project teams composed of best-in-class talent.  Silver Street’s experience as owner, operator, developer, manager and consultant results in unique insights and winning long-term strategies for its clients.         

James Gersten, Silver Street’s founder, acquired his significant experience and expertise in brand and concept development as the head of Starwood Capital Group’s Global Operations, CEO of BR Guest Hospitality and President of need Culinary Concepts – a joint venture with Starwood Hotels & Resorts. Prior to Starwood, Gersten developed his own restaurant, the famed NYC institution La Esquina and was a Senior Vice President of André Balazs' Hotels as well as Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group.

A strong focus on developing long-term relationships with clients has led to incredible projects with top chefs, hospitality brands, real estate developers and retail venture capital partners. With more than 60 openings and multi-unit management achievement across numerous concepts across the globe, Silver Street Hospitality offers rare expertise to create and launch brands, to fine-tune existing brands and to build successful hospitality operations.