Most executives of family-run real estate companies like to keep things small, but not Charles Kushner, chairman of Kushner Cos., which owns and manages more than 20,000 apartment units and more than 6 million square feet of commercial space. He wants to be one of the largest owners of residential apartment units on the East Coast. He has expanded the company that his father started in 1954. For Kushner, it's all about growth. "No one has been more active in New Jersey – especially in its core business of apartments – than the Kushner Cos.," says Alan R. Hammer, managing director of the law firm Brach Eichler and an attorney for the company. Read more