David Schwartzman

Chief Executive

Harridge Development Group

THE LATEST: Schwartzman is overseeing the $1 billion Crossroads Hollywood development, a 950-unit, 1.4-million-square-foot mixed-use project that will also feature a 300-room hotel. In late 2019, he sold the Los Angeles Times& printing plant industrial property in downtown for $242.5 million. He is also converting the former I. Magnin & Co. department store in Koreatown into a 160-room hotel and a 170-unit residential building. Other new projects include a 700-unit residential project dubbed Ponte Vista in San Pedro and a 75-unit project in Northridge.

BACKGROUND: Schwartzman got his start in real estate development as a residential homebuilder in 1990. He has developed more than 5, 000 homes and mixed-use projects across Central and Southern California. Harridge Development Group was incorporated in 2010 and focuses on vacant or underutilized sites in Southern California neighborhoods. Schwartzman has a degree from USC and supports a number of philanthropic organizations, including the University of Judaism, Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind and the American Cancer Society.

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