Michael Cantor

Michael Cantor began his career working in his father’s construction company office after school and during his high school years, worked summers in construction, doing carpentry, plumbing, masonry, and steel erection. In his twenties and thirties, Michael formed numerous companies, many of them involved in building and leasing industrial and commercial buildings. During one such venture, he became the youngest in General Motors history to solely own a dealership, a Chevrolet franchise in New Jersey. Michael also purchased and turned around a number of existing shopping malls and other distressed properties, trading them at significant profit. The core business of Cantor Companies and Michael’s own professional focus is identifying real estate potential. Tremendous work and time are involved in researching, evaluating, planning, and working with the participants in any deal. However, analysis is only the beginning of any successful project. The ability to lead a development from an initial sketch to its timely completion is a skill honed over decades and evidenced best by the number of successful projects and their returns. Michael Cantor believes there are tremendous possibilities even in today’s tumultuous market. The company’s focus is identifying the long-term financial potential of industrial and select residential projects in niche sectors.. Michael’s vision now includes the remarkable growth opportunities that continuing trends and current legislative changes are going to create. Having spent the past several decades developing, building, and managing millions of square feet of real estate, Michael Cantor and Cantor Companies are on the quiet – and most profitable – cutting edge of metropolitan change.