[3] He attended the University of Denver on an athletic scholarship but was forced to cut his studies short to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard during the Korean War.
[1] After his service, Perlmutter and his cousin, Samuel Primack, constructed a single family home in Denver in 1952 on a lot that his father had given him[1][4] and together founded Perl-Mack Enterprises.
[3] Perl-Mack introduced the concept of planned communities to Denver with the 1959 construction of the 6,000 home Northglenn development, and later Montbello (1965) and Southglenn (now part of Centennial, Colorado).
[1][2] He served on the board of directors on Shalom Cares, a Jewish not-for-profit nursing home and retirement community in Aurora that he had helped to build in 1992.
[1][2] Perlmutter has served on the boards of directors of the Rose Medical Center and the Anti-Defamation League Executive Committee.