When a Detroit tax lawyer was contemplating where to move in the late '60s, he decided on New York City, in part because walking was his preferred method of travel.
More than 40 years later, Stephen Ross presides over one of New York's most high-profile real-estate developers. His Related Companies built the city's Time Warner Center and Grand Park in Los Angeles. It's also the force behind Hudson Yards, the epic, $20 billion project on Manhattan's West Side that could be the biggest private real estate development in U.S. history.
