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Melvin Simon (October 21, 1926 – September 16, 2009) [1] was an American businessman and film producer, who co-founded the largest shopping mall company in the United States, the Simon Property Group, with his younger brother, Herb Simon. [2]
Sep 16, 2009 · Melvin Simon (October 21, 1926 – September 16, 2009) was an American businessman and film producer, who co-founded the largest shopping mall company in the United States, the Simon Property Group, with his younger brother, Herb Simon. The pair jointly purchased the Indiana Pacers in 1983.
Sep 18, 2009 · Melvin Simon, who helped shape suburbia by developing shopping malls, eventually owning more of them than anyone else in the world, died Wednesday in Carmel, Ind., a suburb of Indianapolis. He...
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The son of a New York tailor, Melvin Simon became one of the preeminent commercial real estate developers in the Midwest. Together with his brother Herbert, the "Marx Brothersof malls" made their fortune covering America's heartland with unpretentious shopping centers. Melvin Simon expanded his portfolio to include movie production and ownership of...
Melvin Simon was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 21, 1926. He was raised in another New York City borough, the Bronx, just a mile from Yankee Stadium. His father, Max Simon, worked as a tailor. He earned his bachelor of science in accounting from City College in New York and entered military service during the Korean War. Stationed at Fort B...
While still in the military, Simon got his first job selling encyclopedias door to door. Upon leaving the service in 1955, he became a leasing agent for the Albert Frankel Company. Simon later declared the $100-per-week job "easy money." His responsibilities included leasing out space in an Indianapolis shopping center. "I enjoyed it, but in a coup...
Melvin Simon and his brother Herb preside over one of America's largest commercial real estate companies. By 1996, their empire comprised 111 regional shopping centers and 66 strip malls. They also owned a 22.5 percent stake in the Mall of America, the world's largest shopping mall, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 4.2 million-square-foot sho...
Contact at: Melvin Simon and Associates and the Indiana Pacers 300 E. Market St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 Business Phone: (317)263-2100 URL: http://www.nba.com/pacers
Sep 17, 2009 · The leader of a boisterous and productive family partnership sometimes called "the Marx Brothers of Malls," Mel Simon helped transform the way Americans shop.
Melvin Isaac Simon (born February 8, 1937, in New York City) is an American molecular biologist, molecular geneticist, and microbiologist.
Melvin Simon. Producer: Porky's. Melvin Simon started his career as one of the head executives at Columbia Pictures. In 1967 he founded a joint venture and independent motion picture and television company, AVCO Embassy Pictures, as a sister company to Columbia.
