Michael Lander is founder and president of Lander Group. He incorporated the company in 1984 in California and has since been active in the planning, design, and development of commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate projects in California, North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. His experience includes land acquisition, market research, land planning and architectural design, structuring and securing public and private financing, marketing (leasing and sales), partnership formation, property management, and overall development and coordination.

Since relocating to Minneapolis in 1990, the Lander Group, alone and in partnerships with other firms, has developed and sold many successful infill residential projects and completed substantial renovations of mixed-use commercial buildings. As a partner in the urban design firm Town Planning Collaborative, Mr. Lander helped create the award-winning plan for St. Louis Park's new town center and an acclaimed design charrette for Minneapolis' Uptown district.

Michael is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Congress of the New Urbanism, the Minnesota Multi-Housing Association, and the Minnesota chapter of the AIA, and serves on the public policy committee of the Builders' Association of the Twin Cities. He is a licensed real estate broker and general contractor in Minnesota, and holds the CCIM designation from the National Association of Realtors. He is a past president of the Minnesota/South Dakota CCIM chapter. Michael Lander currently serves on the national steering committee of LOCUS.

Michael is a native of Grand Forks, North Dakota. He has gained over 20 years experience in the real estate development field since studying liberal arts at Arizona State University and the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He has two daughters and lives in the Kingfield neighborhood of Minneapolis.