Henry S. Miller III, who oversaw his family’s more than century-old real estate firm and is known for his work developing the West Village shopping center as well as his stewardship of Highland Park Village and the Preston Royal Village shopping center, died on Feb. 28 at 79.
Miller worked in the commercial real estate firm Henry S. Miller, which was started by his grandfather in 1914. Henry attended SMU and later the Advanced Management Development Program at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
His family bought Highland Park Village in 1976 and he became managing director in 1986 of Highland Park Village and Preston Royal Village, which his family developed alongside Trammell Crow in 1958. During Miller’s tenure, he helped lead a revitalization of Highland Park Village, introducing high-end brands while maintaining the grocery store and movie theater. The family sold the Highland Park Village property to developer Ray Washburne in 2009.
Arguably, Miller may be best known for the 400,000-square foot West Village development in Uptown, which opened in 2001…