Background
Sturner was born in the Bronx, New York to a Jewish family and grew up in Bayside, Queens where he attended Bayside High School.
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Norman Sturner
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Education
Saint John"s University.
Career
He worked as a short-order cook when he was a teenager and entered college at the age of 16. He is a graduate of Saint John's University where he majored in accounting. After school, he first worked as an accountants and then moved on to became one of the largest mutual fund dealers in the country and owned a seat on the Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington stock exchange.
Sturner focuses solely on commercial real estate in Manhattan.
Handling all aspects of development except construction - which is outsourced. His strategy historically has been to purchase undervalued commercial properties in Manhattan and improve them (typically upgrading lobbies and elevators) to attract a better class of tenants.
His firm has acquired and sold more than 150 properties with an value of more than United States $10 Billion. Sturner is a great believer in New York City stating: "New York is an island which cannot be moved anywhere and lose its value.".
Membership
Sturner was named a member of the Commercial Observer’s “Power 100” in New York City. Sturner is an approved Receiver by the New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA), is a member of Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), is a member of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), and serves as Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Realty Foundation of New New York
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