William P. Carey
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William P. Carey (1930-) born in Baltimore, MD is an American businessman and founder of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC, a corporate real estate financing firm headquartered in New York City. The world’s largest publicly traded limited liability company, W. P. Carey currently owns more than 650 commercial and industrial facilities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, comprising more than 90 million square feet of space.
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[edit] Early life, career, and family
Carey has deep familial roots in Baltimore. His great-great-great-grandfather James Carey was an 18th- and 19th-century Baltimore shipper, chairman of the Bank of Maryland, a member of Baltimore's first City Council and a relative of Johns Hopkins. His grandmother, Anne Galbraith Carey, conceived of the Gilman School for boys in Roland Park. As a young man Carey Roland Park's Gilman School to go to the Pomfret School in Connecticut, then attended Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania, before establishing himself in New York City.
[edit] Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business
Carey is benefactor to the Arizona State University College of Business. In 2002, Carey donated $50 million to the College of Business. In recognition of his gift, the University renamed its business school the W. P. Carey School of Business.
[edit] The Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business
Carey announced December 5, 2006 his donation of $50 million to The Johns Hopkins University. He is a trustee emeritus at Hopkins and is donating the money through his W.P. Carey Foundation. The gift is the largest to Hopkins in support of business education and will be called the Carey Business School. The Hopkins business school will be named after William Carey's great-great-great-grandfather, James Carey
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- Hopkins dream a reality
- [http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ06/dec06/schools.html| Johns Hopkins Launches
New Schools of Business, Education]
