Chetrit Organization was led by the late Jacob Chetrit and his brother Juda, but it appears that Jacob’s son Michael Chetrit is now the point person for the firm since Jacob died in January.

Joseph Chetrit, born into a Moroccan-Jewish family, started the Chetrit Group with his brothers Meyer, Jacob and Juda, beginning with investments in New York’s outer boroughs in the 1980s and 1990s.