Harry Mittleman (May 24, 1900 – August 1, 1985) was a prominent building contractor, apartment owner, and real estate developer in Portland, Oregon.
[1] The family immigrated to the United States in 1911 to escape the Persecution of Jews prior to World War I, settling in Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1922 Mittleman moved to Castle Rock, Washington, and opened a series of grocery stores in the surrounding area.
[1] Mittleman was a fast builder, and he hired extra workers in the early years of the Depression era to provide jobs.
At a lot that would become Parkway Manor, for example, Mittleman announced that a steam shovel would begin digging even before the architects had designed the building.