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THE MAVERICK

Josh Schuster

Silverback Development

THREE-YEAR GROWTH 
2,334. 7%

Manhattan is home to commercial real estate dynasties that have built generations of wealth. Thirty-six-year-old Josh Schuster does not belong to any of those. His grandfather was a well-known project executive in the business and taught Schuster how to read blueprints back when they were actually blue, but Jack Schuster passed away years before Josh could chart his own path from his home in Kinsman, Ohio, to New York City’s real estate industry. Josh would find another mentor, Jeff Gershen, only to

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