It's no accident that Martin E. Stein Jr. jogs to relax. The president and CEO of Jacksonville's Regency Realty, a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and manages supermarket-anchored shopping centers, says he inherited his father's "sense of urgency."
Founded by Stein's parents in 1963, Regency built and managed Jacksonville's first regional mall, Regency Square, which has since been sold. Stein, 44, in charge since 1988, has overseen aggressive expansion from 13 Florida properties in 1993, when Regency went public, to 83 properties with 9 million square feet an