Rafi Golberstein relocated back to Minnesota, in 2017, with his family to start a commercial real estate business after over ten years as top commercial real estate lender in New York City. He founded PACE Loan Group (PLG) after learning about the new state-by-state financing tool called Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE), which encourages property owners to make energy and water improvements in properties and leverages an assessment to spread those payments over 20-30 years. In starting this new company, he was afforded the opportunity to build an experienced and diverse team committed to disrupting the commercial real estate finance industry. Since then, Rafi has built PLG into one of the leading C-PACE lenders nationwide. The company’s growth placed them as #3 on the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s 2023 Fast 50 list.