Murray Kushner

Murray Kushner is an American real estate developer.

Early life Kushner's parents, Joseph Kushner and Rae Kushner, were Jews born in eastern Poland and Holocaust survivors, who came to America from the USSR by way of Italy in 1949. His father worked as a construction worker and concurrently as an independent builder, while investing in real estate, eventually building a portfolio totaling 4,000 New Jersey apartments. The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy and the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School, in Livingston, New Jersey, built by Charles Kushner, are named after them. Murray Kushner has two sisters, Esther and Linda, and a younger brother, Charles.

Career After school, he worked for the family real estate business, and after his father's death, he and his siblings equally divided ownership of the company.

KRE has developed projects throughout the Northeast Corridor, with several located in Downtown Jersey City. In July 2014, the company began construction on the first phase of Journal Squared, a residential development adjacent to the Journal Square Transportation Center. The project will be constructed in three phases, and is approved for a total of 1,838 units, including a 70-story building, which will be one of the tallest buildings in Jersey City when completed.

Personal life Kushner married Lee Kushner, He has two sons, Jon and Marc. His first wife died and he remarried. His wife came into the marriage with a son and daughter. His son Jonathan Kushner has taken over The KRE Group. His son Marc is an architect and married Christopher Barley in a Jewish ceremony in 2012. He remains estranged from his brother Charles Kushner.