Ghermezian family

The Ghermezian family is a family of Persian Jewish origins who have developed several of the world's largest shopping malls.

Origin and brothers

The patriarch of the family, Jacob Ghermezian, (1895 – January 3, 2000)^[2] moved from Iran to Canada with his four sons in 1964.^[3] The four sons, Eskandar, Nader, Raphael and Bahman, grew the family rug business into a large real estate and construction company.^[3]

Estate

The family's estates include the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota and the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta.^[4][5] In 2011, the family's Triple Five Group acquired the troubled Xanadu Meadowlands project in New Jersey. Triple Five renamed the project American Dream Meadowlands and announced a major expansion and revamping of the under-construction mall, now expected to open in the fall of 2018.^[6]

Family members

• Jacob Ghermezian, founder of the Triple Five Group
• Nader Ghermezian, chairman of the Triple Five Group
• Don Ghermezian, CEO of the Triple Five Group
• Mark Ghermezian, founder and Executive Chairman of Appboy^{[7][8] [9]}

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