Noah Schatz

Noah Schatz was born and raised in Chicago, attended the Latin School of Chicago, graduated from DePaul University in Chicago, launched his real estate career in Chicago, and has worked in Chicago ever since. He’s a Chicagoan through and through. He grew up in the real estate business, assisting his father with the ownership and management of apartment, office, retail, and vacant land assets. Then, in the first decade of the new century, shortly after his father passed away, he assumed the mantle of the real estate business and embarked on an ambitious project to develop a 41-story, 227-unit luxury high-rise condominium tower at 600 North Fairbanks in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. Schatz Development commissioned Helmut Jahn to design what became a sleek concrete and glass edifice that cantilevered over the adjacent three-story Schatz Building. Pre-construction sales velocity was swift, the high-rise was completed on time and on budget, and the project was an unqualified success.

Noah subsequently founded domu, the popular Chicago online apartment-listing service. domu featured an intuitive, user-friendly interface and offered local tenants a superior apartment-finding experience with a website devoid of spam, blind listings, and other sales and marketing gimmicks.

In 2014, Noah founded Chez, a premier event space named in honor of Chicago’s famed Chez Paree nightclub, which featured Hollywood-style entertainment throughout the Baby Boom era and operated out of the Schatz Building. Chez remains a preferred luxury event space, perfect for corporate outings, wedding celebrations, and other social occasions. Then, in 2023, Noah reunited with his former colleague Andrew Porter to form Oz Park Capital for the purpose of pursuing and capitalizing on real estate investment opportunities arising from decreasing net operating incomes and increasing interest rates.

In his personal time, Noah enjoys the company of his three children, Owen, Lilah and Caleb, thrives on distance running and other forms of vigorous physical conditioning, and even competes as a skeet and sporting clays shooter, having honed his marksmanship during childhood when he often accompanied his father, a battle-scarred veteran of the Second World War, on trips to the Lincoln Park Traps at Diversey and the Chicago lakefront. Noah was a natural: He blossomed into an All-American, a world champion, and a world record skeet shooter, and competed on the professional skeet circuit for 16 years.