Coby Lefkowitz
Real Estate Developer


Coby Lefkowitz is a principal of Backyard, a real estate development and consulting firm focused on creating more beautiful, walkable, dynamic, and affordable communities. He is a leading writer within the worlds of urban planning and real estate development, and the author of the Best-Selling book “Building Optimism”. Coby is a professor of Real Estate Development at the Schack Institute of Real Estate at New York University.