From the August issue: Miki Naftali is CEO and president of the Elad Group — a real estate and hotel development conglomerate based in Israel — and its New York-based subsidiary, Elad Properties. Naftali’s signature project is the Plaza Hotel, which Elad purchased in 2004 for $675 million and spent $500 million to renovate. Naftali talked to The Real Deal about his entrée to real estate as a property manager in “rough areas” of Downtown L.A., sailing in the Caribbean, and communicating with his daughter via BlackBerry Messenger.
Plaza developer Miki Naftali talks about his foray into real estate to pay for school, sailing in the Caribbean — and of course, the Plaza
August 07, 2009 12:14PM
By Candace Taylor
