“Make no mistake about it, whether it’s health care or the economy, whether it’s education or foreign policy, the choice we make in this election will determine nothing less than who we are as a country — but more importantly, who we want to be,” she told about 200 guests at the Davis Islands waterfront home of developer *Joel Cantor.
“Who do we want to be? Will we be a country that tells folks who have done everything right but are struggling to get by, ‘tough luck, you’re on your own’? Is that who we are?”
No, the audience, many fanning themselves in the 82-degree heat, responded enthusiastically.
“I’m not going to kid you,” she told the guests, who paid as much as $35,800 for the appearance. “This journey is going to be long and it will be hard.”
*Joel Cantor
Mr. Cantor attended the University of Massachusetts majoring in finance and Mandarin Chinese for his undergraduate degree. Mr. Cantor also attended the University of Copenhagen as an American Scholar for a year abroad studying East/West trade relations.
After earning his undergraduate degree Mr. Cantor obtained a position on Wall Street at Chase Manhattan Bank by handing out 10,000 resumes on the street one day instead of simply mailing resumes. He was hired to handle overnight loans between money center banks and was promoted within five months to oversee a staff of thirty mostly middle-aged employees while he was just 21 years old. Mr. Cantor was then hired by the venerable Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers in their real estate finance investment banking group. He studied under the tutelage of Lewis Ranieri who is credited as the inventor of the collateralized mortgage bond. Mr. Cantor travelled across the U.S. buying packages of loans and structuring them into traunches of mortgage backed securities. Salomon Brothers hired a private tutor to teach Mr. Cantor the Japanese language as he was slated to be sent to their burgeoning Asian offices. However, Mr. Cantor chose to go back to school and get his MBA at Wharton with intentions to go back to Salomon Brothers and be included in their executive ranks. At Wharton, Mr. Cantor was recruited by the legendary Trammell Crow Company to come to Tampa and build the $85M Florida Aquarium. In 1989 within six months of arriving in Tampa, Mr. Cantor raised his first fund with $2M from his Wall Street contacts and purchased a dozen apartment complexes from the Resolution Trust Company (RTC) which was overseeing the disposition of real estate assets from failed banks.
http://www.cantorpartners.com/cantor-joel-cantor.php
Mr. Cantor resides in Tampa with his wife and their four boys. Mr. Cantor is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys training for Ironman distance triathlons, mountain climbing, skiing, and adventure travel. He and his wife have travelled to more than 95 countries embarking on rugged trips. They have driven 7,500 miles through one end of Africa to the other, journeyed the length of the Amazon River, and spent countless weeks trekking the high passes of the Indian and Nepali Himalaya.
Mr. Cantor is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Leadership Florida, Urban Land Institute, and several charitable causes.
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Joel Cantor’s Experience
CEO Cantor + Partners LLC
May 1989 – Present (22 years 6 months)
Private Equity Firm specializing in the Real Estate and Medical Practice sectors as well as other entrepreneurial ideas.
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Cantor, a tennis player, met a banker at a tournament who later called him about some foreclosures in Tampa that also needed repair. Cantor “begged and borrowed” to get the $600,000 down he needed and started fixing up the properties.
When one of his early multifamily rental projects was fully occupied, his cash flow was about $75,000 a month.
Gulf Atlantic today is a $21 million company with 28 employees.
Joel Cantor
Signature Developer
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 2 It’s great to see the best project in the bay area rise.[/QUOTE]
I appreciate all the kind words from you guys. I visited the project yesterday and it really is looking stunning. The lobby will be like no other. We installed a 30 foot high Onyx stone back lit with LED flat panels. Onyx is a semi-precious stone we found in Austraila. My vision has finally become reality. Creating good architecture can be a lot of fun, but getting it built requires payment in blood, sweat, and fits of anger and a huge dose of determination. I’d be glad to put you on our opening party invite and show you all around..sometime in April. Simply email Debbie Newman at debbienewman@signaturestpete.com.
Joel Cantor
Signatrue Place Developer/Owner
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=431023&page=11
"I’m not going to kid you,” she told the guests, who paid as much as $35,800 for the appearance.
Irony?