MIKE HARRAH
FOUNDER/CEO
CARIBOU INDUSTRIES
WHY: Has owned or developed about 7M square feet across California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii. Is one of largest property owners in Santa Ana. Major supporter of the OC School of the Arts. Bought former plant of OC Register and sold a portion to Amazon. For two decades, has been working on largest high-rise in Orange County—a 37-floor residential tower.
IN THE NEWS: Is planning 15-floor and 171-unit apartment tower with a neighboring 10-floor and 75-room hotel, in the city’s urban core.
NOTABLE: Winner of 2024 Business Journal Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award.
QUOTABLE: “From the 1920s through the 1980s, Santa Ana reigned as Orange County’s ‘capital city’ – the most vibrant and thriving place to be and be seen. With today’s Transit Oriented Development (TOD), it is once again Santa Ana’s time to shine as the city where people of Orange County live, work, play and excel.”
