Daniel Rose (real estate developer)
American real estate developer and philanthropist
Daniel Rose (born 1929) is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and essayist.
Rose developed the Pentagon City complex adjacent to Reagan Washington National Airport, the One Financial Center and Keystone Building office towers that anchored the redevelopment of Downtown Boston, and conceived and reinvented a New York City real estate apartment complex into Manhattan Plaza for the Performing Arts.
A philanthropist, he founded the inner-city youth education program, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, he also established academic and professional educational programs, and served in several government administrations in unpaid advisory roles. His award-winning essays and speeches have covered subjects as diverse as economics, inner city education, racial problems, social injustice, real estate, food and wine, and housing.
Early life and education
Rose was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, one of three sons of Belle and Samuel B. Rose. He has two brothers, Elihu Rose and Frederick P. Rose. He attended Horace Mann High School in The Bronx and then Yale University.
Career
Rose served as a military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.
Following his military service, he joined the family real estate development company, Rose Associates, founded by his father and his uncle, David Rose in 1928. Among other major projects, Daniel Rose led the development of Pentagon City in Arlington County, Virginia, adjacent to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and 99 High Street and One Financial Center adjacent to South Station in Downtown Boston as President of the firm, and became Chairman after the death of his brother, Frederick P. Rose in 1999.
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