A New Generation Of The Ratner Family Is Ready To Build Its Own CRE Legacy The Ratners are back. Five years after the sale of their influential family business, Forest City Realty Trust, to Brookfield for $11.4B, brothers Kevin and Jon Ratner, along with business partner Luke Palmisano, are set to open five new apartment projects across the U.S. in the next 12 months. The first project of their new company, named Max Collaborative after their grandfather, Forest City co-founder Max Ratner, is a head-turning collision of nature with glass and steel. With its facade cracked open to reveal veins of greenery flowing to a rooftop garden amid Denver’s famously gritty River North district, the project is an aesthetic disruption from the norm and a statement about how the company plans to forge its own path. 
“There’s going to be value inherent to building a better product and enduring some of the challenges that come with trying to disrupt a system that wants to be just kind of routinized,” Jon told Bisnow. One River North, as the Denver development is known, is scheduled to open this month. Beijing-based MAD… Read the full story here. | 
