Minerva (property firm)

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Minerva plc is a London based British developer and property firm co-founded by the millionaire philanthropist Sir David Garrard. Its current chairman is Andrew Rosenfeld. Garrard and Rosenfeld took the company public in 1996.

Minerva is involved in several major projects, including the proposed Minerva Building and The Walbrook in the City of London. The Minerva Building and Minerva's planned Park Place shopping and office development and its previous ownership of the Allders chain of department stores, both in Croydon, came under scrutiny amidst the 2006 Cash for Peerages political scandal, when it emerged that the Labour government had chosen not to intervene over the Minerva Building and Park Place planning decisions or the state of Allders' pension fund shortly after both Garrard and Rosenfeld had made major loans and donations to the Labour Party.