Cool Boutique Developers
Let's get a list going of very cool, boutique (or larger) developers. Always think it's cool to hear about these shops of just a handful of guys doing really badass projects. I'll start with a few:
Scott Gillen (Malibu, CA) Plus Development Group (West Hollywood, CA) Aby Rosen (NYC) Michael Stern/ JDS Development (NYC) Ilan Sharone (Beverly Hills, CA) Edit: Rick Caruso (Los Angeles, CA) CIM Group (Los Angeles, CA)
L&L Holding Co (NYC) - in no particular order, 425 Park, TSX, 390 Madison, and 195 Broadway could all be counted in the "badass" category. Not really ground up projects, but heavy NYC office redevelopment
I always thought CIM was substantially smaller than Related or Hines. My point of this list wasn’t to define boutique or not, but to get a list of developers others may not have heard of.
I’d imagine everyone in the RE forum knows Related/ Hines/ Starwood/ BlackStone. And there are other threads on REPEs. Maybe everyone knows about CIM. But the other boutique developers mentioned are more in line of what I was looking to get together.