Michael Stern (born June 13, 1979) is an American real estate developer.
[1] Stern was born on June 13, 1979, to a Jewish family and raised in Five Towns on Long Island.
[2] After school, he took a job as a project manager for a developer in Florida and after three years - with funding from friends and family - he began to build spec homes on the side.
[2] In a joint venture with Kevin P. Maloney's Property Markets Group, JDS completed the conversion of the Walker Tower at 212 West 18th Street in Chelsea into condominiums[3] built the 1,428 foot 111 West 57th Street in Manhattan[3][4][5] with non-union labor, unprecedented for large-scale construction in Manhattan.
[4] JDS also developed The Copper (originally known as 626 First Avenue), a dual-tower residential skyscraper in the Kips Bay neighborhood of New York City, in Manhattan[6] and the 1,066 foot Brooklyn Tower, which became the tallest structure in New York City outside Manhattan.