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Burton Farbman is not an easy man to sum up.
As a kid in the late fifties and early sixties, he was a trouble maker -- when far more innocent things than drugs or guns and could earn you that label. Farbman went to a military academy to straighten up, and later shocked friends and family alike by becoming a player in Detroit.
He's chairman and CEO of Farbman/Stein and Co., a 23-year-old firm based in Troy that buys and sells real estate -- and has developed more than 8 million square feet of it. He finances projects, brokers office and commercial space, and manages 14 million square feet of property nationwide. And he is involved in such high profile ...