S. Jon Kreedman
S. Jon Kreedman (1921 – November 5, 1999) was an American real estate developer, banker and philanthropist. Early life S. Jon Kreedman was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a carpenter-turned-real estate developer. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1941, and he served in the United States Army during World War II. Career Construction industry Kreedman began his career by working for his father at the age of 15, first as a carpenter and later as a builder. He later worked for a construction firm. In 1948, he founded his own real estate development company, S. Jon Kreedman & Co., a real estate development company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Kreedman began by building Tract housing, tract homes in Los Angeles, California. He subsequently moved on to commercial buildings. He built the Brierwood Terrace-Valley Convalescent Hospital in Encino, California in 1958; its construction cost more than US$50,000. In 1959, he purchased the Plush Horse Restauran ...
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Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area, and the 14th-largest in the United States. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music, art, architecture and design, in addition to its historical automotive background. ''Time'' named Detroit as one of the fifty World's Greatest Places of 2022 to explore. Detroit is a major port on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in t ...
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