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Woodland Hills and decided to
move to the beach. A week later, to
his family’s shock, he was living in
Manhattan Beach. He became completely
in thrall with the little town.
Soon he headquartered the company
there. He had an office on the
200 block of Manhattan Beach
Boulevard with a view of the pier
and the Roundhouse.
“I always refer to it as this enchanted
village. It's how I felt when
I moved here,” Greenberg said. “It's
like I'm always on vacation. It's a
special town….I feel really blessed
to be able to be here. All those times
I packed up my bags and moved —
I have no intention of ever moving.
I found it. I have lived over half my
life here now, and it gave me everything.
It gave me the life I have
today. My kids were born and raised
here; it was the only place they
know. I knew so many places, from
moving around. But who gets to live
near the beach?”
What was more unusual was that
even as Skechers grew into a $2 billion
a year business, selling 200 million
pairs of shoes worldwide
annually, Greenberg chose to keep
the company in Manhattan Beach.
“Setting up this company in a city
that is two miles by two miles —
who would do that? There is no
Michael and Harrison Greenberg. Photo Courtesy of the Greenberg family
land,” he said. “They are not producing
more Manhattan Beach. So,
it took a lot of planning to keep a
company that was growing, that
needed space, inside of Manhattan
Beach. It's full; the houses are on
top of one another. There is no
farmland. There is no acreage. But
it’s where I wanted to be.”
He’d always marvelled when
coming home from business trips,
as he came over the crest of the hill
and looked down on the the red tile
roof Roundhouse at the end of the
pier. “This is where I get to live,” he
thought.
But on that day in early April
three years ago, Greenberg arrived
bewildered. His first instinct was to
immediately book another flight, to
Thailand.
“I started to make flights to Thailand,
because that is where he was,”
he remembered. “But I was thinking,
why am I going to Thailand?
I've got to be with the kids and Harrison's
mother. There was a lot of
support here.”
There is a confusingly beautiful
thing that often happens at a time of
such devastating loss — an unreal
and terrifying sense of absence is accompanied
by profound feelings of
love. It’s hard to fully grasp the
enormity of a love a father has for a
son, or a sibling for a sibling, until
that person’s passing throws the
feeling into sharp relief, creating a
hole in a heart the size of this unfathomably
large love. We often
don’t know just how much we are
capable of feeling until loss forces it
upon us. That capacity is reflected
back upon us as we rest in the love
of those remaining.
The outpouring of love from the
community floored Greenberg. And
from around the world, donations
quickly arrived. The Harrison
Greenberg Foundation was immediately
established; within days, a
quarter million dollars had been donated
to the Foundation.
Robin Curren, the executive director
of the non-profit Skechers Foun-
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