Michael Klingl

Senior Development Manager

As a senior development manager for JSD, Michael services commercial and residential real estate development. His experience spans widely covering site selection, land acquisition, lease and option agreement negotiation assistance, tenant relations, due diligence, entitlement, design, permitting and construction.

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With a degree in landscape architecture from the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, Michael’s first job ever was manning a paper route, but admits that if he could have any job in the world and didn’t have to be concerned about income, he would desire to own a restaurant and be a chef. Out of high school, he was on a two-year waiting list to enter culinary school, but landscape architecture caught his eye and the rest is history!

Outside of work, Michael enjoys playing golf, cycling, “do-it yourself” home improvements/remodeling, snow skiing and snowmobiling, and obviously cooking. He has a wife, daughter and son.

If you found a lottery ticket that ends up winning $10 million, how do you spend it?
Share some with family and friends, donate some to the church and then start a business by buying a home to fix up and flip

Describe your life using a movie title:
Terminator – Hastalavista babe

If you could build a brand-new phone app to do something helpful for you, what would it do?
Slow down the day to give me more hours when I am running short of some