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Robert P. Kogod
Robert P. Kogod is a business executive and philanthropist. Along with his brother-in-law, Robert Smith (philanthropist), Robert H. Smith, Kogod led the Charles E. Smith Companies, the real estate company that developed much of the Crystal City, Virginia, Crystal City neighborhood, just south of Washington, D.C. Career In 1956, Kogod, who was already a real estate developer, married Arlene Smith, the daughter of real estate tycoon Charles E. Smith (developer), Charles E. Smith. In 1959, Kogod joined the Charles E. Smith Companies. Kogod and his brother-in-law, Robert H. Smith, took charge of the company in 1967. Robert Smith oversaw construction and development, and Kogod led leasing and management. In 1995, Forbes estimated the Smith family fortune to be worth $560 million. In 2001, the residential division of the company was merged into Archstone, which was sold to Equity Residential and Avalon Bay in 2013. The commercial division of the company was merged into Vornado Realty Trus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Smith (developer)
Charles Emil Smith (né Schmidoff; March 28, 1901 – December 30, 1995) was a real estate developer and philanthropist in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Biography Smith (born Schmidoff), was born in Lipnick, Russian Empire on March 28, 1901 to an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Russian Jewish, Jewish family in Russia, the son of Sadie and Reuven Schmidoff. He immigrated to Brownsville, Brooklyn in 1911 speaking only Yiddish language, Yiddish upon his arrival. He started as a developer in Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn, but lost everything in the Great Depression. He moved to Rockville, MD where he first developed apartments and later office buildings. He founded the Charles E. Smith Co. and developed the Crystal City, Virginia, Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia. He retired in 1967 and turned to philanthropy. Philanthropy He planned a complex in Rockville for Jewish agencies including the Hebrew Home for the Aged, the Jewish Social Service Agency and the Jewish Community Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |