{"id":15693,"date":"2009-06-23T10:27:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T10:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/?p=15693"},"modified":"2019-01-27T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T04:41:10","slug":"oc-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/2009\/06\/23\/oc-50\/","title":{"rendered":"OC 50 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Profiles of the County\u2019s Most Influential Business People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Big in county\u2019s biggest city<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike Harrah\u2019s 2009 profile in the Orange County Business Journal highlights some of Harrah\u2019s latest accomplishments. Namely, he owns close to 80 buildings, about 4 million square feet in Santa Ana\u2019s downtown.\u00a0\u00a0 Harrah has played a key role in revitalizing Santa Ana through restoring buildings, attracting restaurants, art galleries and others.\u00a0 His One Broadway Plaza project won voter approval in 2005 and is required by city to have 50% of the footage leased before beginning construction.\u00a0\u00a0 In the last year he finished the multi-million dollar Pinnacle Hawaii condo building which is sold out.\u00a0 In the past decade, Harrah has redeveloped much of central Santa Ana and has been called the city\u2019s savior for restoring old buildings.\u00a0 Honored by the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society in 2003, Michael Harrah was named Preservationist of the Year.\u00a0 His company, Caribou Industries, does an estimated $30 million in annual revenue and Mike\u2019s office, complete with a stuffed bear in the corner, overlooks the One Broadway Plaza site.\u00a0 Harrah is notoriously distinguishable from the rest of the local real estate elite.\u00a0 Standing at 6\u20196 and sporting a ZZ Top beard, Harrah looks the part of his other hobbies\u2014helicopter piloting and jazz drumming, but he managed to direct the construction of the Orange County School of the Arts building from a hospital bed after a major helicopter accident.\u00a0 Harrah was also listed in the 2005, 2006, 2007 &amp; 2008 special reports.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"jce_file\" title=\"Read More in the 2009 Orange County Business Journal Special Report\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/images\/stories\/Magazine\/OC-Business-Journal.pdf\">Read More in the 2009 Orange County Business Journal Special Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profiles of the County\u2019s Most Influential Business People Mr. Big in county\u2019s biggest city Mike Harrah\u2019s 2009 profile in the Orange County Business Journal highlights some of Harrah\u2019s latest accomplishments. Namely, he owns close to 80 buildings, about 4 million square feet in Santa Ana\u2019s downtown.\u00a0\u00a0 Harrah has played a key role in revitalizing Santa Ana through restoring buildings, attracting restaurants, art galleries and others.\u00a0 His One Broadway Plaza project won voter approval in 2005 and is required by city to have 50% of the footage leased before beginning construction.\u00a0\u00a0 In the last year he finished the multi-million dollar Pinnacle Hawaii condo building which is sold out.\u00a0 In the past decade, Harrah has redeveloped much of central Santa Ana and has been called the city\u2019s savior for restoring old buildings.\u00a0 Honored by the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society in 2003, Michael Harrah was named Preservationist of the Year.\u00a0 His company, Caribou Industries, does an estimated $30 million in annual revenue and Mike\u2019s office, complete with a stuffed bear in the corner, overlooks the One Broadway Plaza site.\u00a0 Harrah is notoriously distinguishable from the rest of the local real estate elite.\u00a0 Standing at 6\u20196 and sporting a ZZ Top beard, Harrah looks the part of his other hobbies\u2014helicopter piloting and jazz drumming, but he managed to direct the construction of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recognitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15695,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693\/revisions\/15695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}