Talking Business: Meet the New York real estate mogul behind some of the area’s hottest properties

Source: NOLA.com — 

One of the most successful real estate developers and commercial property owners in the local market is a New York-based investor you’ve probably never heard of: Jeffrey Feil.

Among the Feil Organization’s vast holdings are historic Manhattan high rises, Chicago shopping centers and office complexes in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area.

But outside of New York, the largest chunk of the firm’s portfolio — estimated nearly a decade ago by the Wall Street Journal to be worth more than $7 billion — are 45 properties totaling some 11 million square feet of office, retail and multifamily space in Metairie and New Orleans. This includes Lakeside Shopping Center; The Galleria; Lakeway 1, 2 and 3; and the land on which New Orleans’ only Costco sits.