Michael Turk

Real estate development runs in the Turk family's blood.

San Diego native Michael Turk’s parents bought and restored old buildings when he was a child, and he inherited their love of home improvement and construction. In 1975 he branched out on his own to found KD Development, and the recent addition of his son and daughter make the company a family affair.

KD Development has completed roughly 600 projects in the last 12 years, all of which were sustainable infill or restoration work and almost entirely residential, with a small number of mixed-use buildings. Turk said this infill niche is the future of development in California and most of the country, save for some oil boom states like Wyoming and Montana with cash to kill.