
A philosophy graduate became a corporate lawyer, then traded documents for distressed apartments. Two decades later, his operating lesson is still the same: the deal only works when somebody owns the untidy middle.

A $3 drawing prize, an orange Volkswagen Rabbit and a nearly 10-foot easel all belong to the same career. The founder of Provident has spent four decades turning patient land bets into places - and treating every plan like a composition still in progress.
Two lawyers learned real estate by fixing the properties other buyers avoided. Twenty-three years later, their Austin-based firm is applying the same control-every-step playbook to apartments, historic mills and a 4,000-capacity music venue.
New shopping centers are expensive, slow and unfashionable. SimonCRE's answer is a short ownership clock, municipal dealmaking and the stubborn belief that a good Target can still rearrange a town.
The obituary for the American mall was written early. Simon Property Group answered with scarce locations, rising rents and a business that now sells retailers space, attention and a reason for shoppers to stay awhile.
Gino A. Canori is President and CEO of Related California's market-rate division, overseeing a $10 billion development pipeline of more than 7,000 multifamily and senior housing units and over 5 million square feet of commercial space across California. A 25-year veteran of the firm, he shepherded landmark projects like Frank Gehry's $1 billion The Grand LA and Coterie Cathedral Hill into the skylines of Los Angeles and San Francisco.