Bruce Menin

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Bruce A. Menin (born c. 1962) is an American businessman. He is a managing principal of Crescent Heights, a real estate development company based in Miami Beach, Florida, with regional offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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Early life and education

Menin was born in 1962 in Miami Beach, Florida. where he attended Miami Beach Sr. High School. His father, Barry Menin, was a former stockbroker for Shearson Lehman Brothers. His mother, Miriam, was the owner of the Miami Beach Auto Tag Agency.

Menin graduated from Harvard University, cum laude. He received a master's degree in economics from the University of Sydney, which he attended as a Rotary Scholar, and a law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law, where he was Editor of the Law Review.

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Career

Crescent Heights

Menin began his career as an associate at the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He then became a principal in Crescent Heights' real estate development companies, with his cousin Russell W. Galbut and Sonny Kahn, in 1989. Together, they have invested in over 35,000 residential and hotel units across the nation.

From 1989 to 1994, Menin and his partners expanded their condominium conversion business to become "South Florida's most prolific condo company," with projects in both South Beach and Miami. In 1994, Menin was the company principal responsible for the first office to residential rental conversion in the Wall Street area of Lower Manhattan. In 1998, Menin oversaw the new construction condominium building in Los Angeles named The Remington. Menin currently focuses on transit-heavy, multi-family properties in major cities building sustainable projects with "landscape art installations."

Notable deals

2013: NEMA opens in Mid-Market, San Francisco and becomes a "catalyst for the neighborhood's transformation".
2013: Ten Thousand building (10000 Santa Monica Boulevard) receives city approval and cited by City Councilman Paul Koretz of Council District 5 as a "textbook example" of how development should be done.
2013: Acquired a building at 165 East 66th Street in Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side for US $230 million.
2015: Sold The Paris on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for $150 million.
2015: Received city approval to build first phase of Michigan and Roosevelt project in Chicago, known as 1200 S. Indiana, designed by Rafael Viñoly.
2016: Purchased 399 Congress Street in Boston's Seaport district.
2016: Purchased North Harbor Tower in Chicago for an estimated US $200 million.
2016: Received initial approval to construct Palladium Residences, two 30-story mixed-use buildings at approximately 350 feet with 731 market-rate residential units and 24,000 square feet of retail space on Sunset Boulevard.
2016: Sold Walton on the Park in Chicago, Illinois to JDL Development.
2016: Construction completed in Rincon Hill, San Francisco on new development Jasper, dubbed the "smartest, most luxurious high-rise building to come along in America's smartest city in decades."
2017: Files plans for 70-story skyscraper with 794 apartments at 1045 Olive that would be the tallest residential building in Los Angeles.

Awards and honors

2006: Menin accepted the Freddie Mac Multifamily Development Firm of the Year award on behalf of Crescent Heights, awarded from the National Association of Home Builders.
2014: NEMA received the Market-Rate Residential Deal of the Year award from the San Francisco Business Times.
2014: NEMA received the IBcon 'Digie' Award for most intelligent multi-family residential building.
2015: NEMA received the Alliant Build America Merit Award.
2015: Jasper received the Market-Rate Residential Deal of the Year Award.
2015: Jasper received the Best New Development award from San Francisco Apartment Associations.
2017: Ten Thousand received the 47th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Award by Los Angeles Business Council.

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Philanthropy

Former Chair and Board Member Emeritus of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. Under Menin's leadership, the museum acquired a building at the corner of Delancey and Orchard, which now houses the museum's visitor center.
National Advisory Council for the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research.
Menin was a member of the City of Miami Beach Zoning Board of Adjustment.

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Personal life

In 1999, he married Julie Jacobs in a Jewish ceremony at the Metropolitan Club. His wife went on to serve as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs and is now serving as the Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment under New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. She was also the Chairperson of Community Board 1 for three consecutive terms starting in 2005.