DAVID SCHWARTZMAN

President and Chief Executive Harridge Development Group

Schwartzman heads up Harridge Development Group, which he founded in 2010 with the goal of developing on vacant or underutilized assets. He started as a homebuilder and built more than 5,000 homes and developed 5,000 lots. Today he has 3,000 single-family lots in the L.A. area under development and 675 under construction. His company also is working on the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall, which it purchased last year for $144 million. The company is planning to develop 950 residential units and 150,000 square feet of retail at the site. It also recently obtained a $485 million loan for the first phase of its Crossroads Hollywood project.