Early Life and Real Estate Career
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Fisher began working in construction at the age of 16. Shortly thereafter, he and his brothers, Martin and Larry, joined forces to form Fisher Brothers, which grew into one of the real estate industry's premier residential and commercial developers, owning more than five million square feet of office space.
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