Daniel Rose (born 1929) is an American real estate developer, philanthropistBridgespan: "Daniel Rose Commits His Time to Achieve Real Results for Kids"
retrieved September 22, 2016 and essayist.Rose Associates: "Daniel Rose – Chairman"
retrieved May 28, 2016 He is best known professionally for developing the large-scale

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complex adjacent to Reagan National Airport; building the

One Financial Center One Financial Center is a modern skyscraper adjacent to Dewey Square in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1983 by Rose Associates, it is Boston's 9th-tallest building, standing tall, and housing 46 floors. An unusual ...

and Keystone Building office towers that anchored the redevelopment of downtown Boston; and conceiving and reinventing a New York real estate apartment complex into the internationally renowned

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for the Performing Arts. A forceful advocate for private philanthropyOxford Literary Festival: Daniel Rose speaks on the Harlem Educational Activities Fund
retrieved October 8, 2016 and public service, he founded the acclaimedPhilanthropy Roundtable: "Making moves to prepare kids for life" by VIctorino Matus
retrieved October 30, 2016 inner-city youth education program, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund,EBONY: "How a NYC Youth Program Changes Lives—a Dream at a Time" by K. Barrett Bilaly
retrieved October 30, 2016 established a wide range of academic and professional educational programs, and served multiple 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 & wine, and housing.

Early life

Rose was born to a Jewish family in

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, one of three sons of Belle and Samuel B. Rose.New York Times: "Frederick P. Rose, 2d-Generation Builder And a Major Philanthropist, Is Dead at 75" By CHARLES V. BAGLI
September 16, 1999
September 19, 1999 He has two brothers,

Elihu Rose Elihu Rose (born March 30, 1933) is an American real estate developer, academic, and philanthropist.Elihu Rose Biography
...

and

Frederick P. Rose Frederick Phineas Rose (1923–1999) was an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and member of the Rose family. Biography Rose was born in Brooklyn

. After attending Horace Mann High School and Yale University, Rose served as a military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.Counselors of Real Estate: "Biography – DANIEL ROSE"
retrieved May 28, 2016

Business career

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

in Alexandria, Virginia adjacent to Ronald Reagan National Airport, and 99 High Street and

adjacent to South Station in downtown Boston as President of the firm, and became Chairman after the death of his brother,

Frederick P. Rose Frederick Phineas Rose (1923–1999) was an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and member of the Rose family. Biography Rose was born in Brooklyn

in 1999.

As an institutional consultant, Daniel Rose was responsible for the creation and implementation of the innovative “housing for the performing arts” concept for New York's

. By 2006, Rose Associates managed over 31,000 apartments in New York City, including Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.New York Observer: "The Rose Family" By Jason Horowitz
December 18, 2006 Manhattan Plaza Ninth Avenue and 43rd

He was a Director of 20 Dreyfus-sponsored mutual funds,Bloomberg: "Daniel Rose"
retrieved September 24, 2016 served as a Director of U.S. Trust Corporation, a Trustee of Corporate Property Investors from 1972 to 1998, as Expert Advisor to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as Expert/Consultant to the Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and as a founding director of th
New York Convention Center Development Corp
In his later years, Rose's reputation as a "legendary" business executive established him as a mentor and role model for aspiring young entrepreneurs and real estate executives, and many of his epigrams and quotations have gained wide currency.

Philanthropy and public service

Rose is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, a highly acclaimed initiative that has helped thousands of inner city youth enter college since 1989. He has served on the boards of the New York State Council for the Humanities; the New York Institute for the Humanities;New York Institute for the Humanities: "Daniel Rose"
retrieved September 22, 2016 the Museum of the City of New York; the Urban Land Institute; the

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; the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York; the New York Convention Center Development Corp; the Realty Foundation of New York; the Urban Land Foundation; the Police Athletic League; the

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; the

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; and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Rose's other major philanthropic initiatives include serving as Chairman of the Board of the Horace Mann School, an institution to which he has contributed endowed chairs and which honored him, together with his family, with the naming of Rose Hall; the establishment of the Daniel Rose Chair in Urban Economics at M.I.T. (the nation’s first), the Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute, the joint Yale/Technion Rose Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism Program, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech (founding Board Member),Chairman of Rose Associates Awarded Technion Honorary Doctorate
retrieved September 22, 2016 the Helping Africa Foundation (Chairman), and a major new initiative in Accra, Ghana to restore and rebuild the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture. With his wife, Joanna S. Rose, Daniel Rose has contributed (often anonymously) to hundreds of other charitable organizations addressing racial, religious, academic and humanitarian issues. A military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he has pursued his interest in foreign affairs as an officer of the Foreign Policy Association, the

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and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was a founding board member of the

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and was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Vice Chairman of the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S.-government-funded organization that promotes free trade in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. He then became a Director of the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, its “legacy” philanthropic foundation. From 2004 to 2006, he was a frequent participant by telephone on Forum, an English language political discussion TV program broadcast from Tehran, Iran.

Writings

A prolific essayist and speechwriter, Rose is a six-time winner of the Cicero Speechwriting Award given annually by

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magazine. A 2015 collection of his speeches, "Making a Living, Making a Life"Amazon.com: "Making a Living, Making a Life"
retrieved September 22, 2016 was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by

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, which described it as "A wise, well-honed collection of speeches that address vital issues with fresh, penetrating insight." Covering subjects as diverse as economics, inner city education, racial problems, real estate, food & wine, and housing, his writings occasioned

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's assessment that "Dan Rose has created a body of work that is philosophy at its most useful: how does one live a good life.". A second compilation, "The Examined Life",Amazon.com: "The Examined Life"
retrieved June 14, 2021 was published in 2019, containing more recent essays and speeches as well as personal vignettes of his life. In addition to his own works, Daniel Rose contributed to "The Vintage Magazine Consumer Guide to Wine", and

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's "America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans".

Awards

Rose received the James E. Landauer Award from the American Society of Real Estate Counselors; the Award for Community Service from the Building Owners and Managers Association; the Award for Excellence for Large Scale Mixed Use Development from the Urban Land Institute; and Man of the Year Award from the Realty Foundation of New York. In 2003, he was named Ernst & Young's “Entrepreneur of the Year” in real estate. He has received Honorary Doctorates from

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; Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and New York University. Other honors Rose has received include the Mayor's Award of Honor for Arts and Culture from the City of New York; the Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award from the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding; the Business Leadership Award from the

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and the Harlem Renaissance Award from the Abyssinian Development Corporation. In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, together with his wife, Joanna Semel Rose The main-belt asteroid

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, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in 1999, was named in their honor, while

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was named for the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF). Books dedicated to Daniel and Joanna S. Rose include George Steiner's ''In Bluebeard's Castle'',

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's ''Life Upon These Shores—Looking at African American History'',

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's ''Scars of the Spirit'',

's "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World", and

David S. Rose David Semel Rose (born June 12, 1957) is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is an investor in startup technology companies and founder of New York Angels, an early-stage technology investment group. He is Managing Partner of ...

's ''The Startup Checklist''.

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's book, "The North Atlantic Cities" was also dedicated to him.

Personal life

Rose was married to Joanna (née Semel) until her death in 2021, the long-time chairwoman of Partisan Review Magazine. They have four children: David Semel Rose Joseph Benedict Rose,New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Wendi B. Rose, Joseph B. Rose"
June 23, 1996 Emily Rose, and Gideon Gregory Rose.

References

External links

Daniel Rose official web site
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