1. Early life

2. Business career

3. Philanthropy and public service

4. Writings

5. Awards

6. Personal life

7. References

8. External links

Daniel Rose (born 1929) is an American real estate developer,^[1] philanthropist^[2] and essayist.^[3][4] He is best known professionally for developing the large-scale Pentagon City complex adjacent to Reagan National Airport; building the One Financial Center office tower that anchored the redevelopment of downtown Boston; and conceiving and reinventing a New York real estate apartment complex into the internationally renowned Manhattan Plaza for the Performing Arts. A forceful advocate for private philanthropy^[5] and public service, he founded the acclaimed^[6] innner-city youth education program, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund,^[7] 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 Brooklyn, NY, one of three sons of Belle and Samuel B. Rose.^[8][9] He has two brothers, Elihu Rose and Frederick P. Rose.^[8] After attending Horace Mann High School^[10] and Yale University,^[11] Rose served as a military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.^[12]

Business career

Following his military service, he joined the family real estate development company, Rose Associates,^[4] founded by his father and his uncle, David Rose in 1928.^[13] Among other major projects, Daniel Rose led the development of Pentagon City in Alexandria, Virginia adjacent to Ronald Reagan National Airport, and One Financial Center adjacent to South Station in downtown Boston^[12] as President of the firm, and became Chairman after the death of his brother, Frederick P. Rose 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 Manhattan Plaza.^[14] By 2006, Rose Associates, managed over 31,000 apartments in New York City including Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.^[15][16]

He is a Director of 20 Dreyfus-sponsored mutual funds,^[17] 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 and as Expert/Consultant to the Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare.^[18]

In his later years, Rose's reputation as a "legendary"^[19][20] business executive established him as a mentor^[2] and role model for aspiring young entrepreneurs and real estate executives, and many of his epigrams and quotations have gained wide currency.^[21]

Philanthropy and public service

Rose is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund,^[5][22] a highly acclaimed^[6] initiative that has helped thousands of inner city youth enter college since 1989.^[7] He has served on the boards of the New York State Council for the Humanities; the New York Institute for the Humanities;^[23] the Museum of the City of New York; the Urban Land Institute; the Committee for Economic Development; 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 Jewish Community Centers Association; the Jewish Publication Society; and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.^[12] He has been an officer of the Foreign Policy Association,^[24] the Council on Foreign Relations^[25] and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.^[12] He was a founding board member of the EastWest Institute^[18] and was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Vice Chairman of the Baltic-AmericanEnterprise Fund, a U.S.-government-funded organization that promotes free trade in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.^[18]

Rose's other philanthropic initiatives include establishment of the Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute,^[26] the joint Yale/Technion Rose Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism Program,^[27] the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech (founding Board Member)^[28] and the Helping Africa Foundation (President).^[29]

Writings

A prolific essayist and speechwriter,^[30] Rose is a six-time winner of the Cicero Speechwriting Award given annually by Vital Speeches of the Day magazine.^[31] A 2015 collection of his speeches, "Making a Living, Making a Life"^[32] was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews, which described it as "A wise, well-honed collection of speeches that address vital issues with fresh, penetrating insight."^[33] Covering subjects as diverse as economics, inner city education, racial problems, real estate, food & wine, and housing, his writings occasioned Fareed Zakaria'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.^[32]"

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.^[34] In 2003, he was named Ernst & Young's “Entrepreneur of the Year” in real estate.^[12] He has received Honorary Doctorates from Long Island University;^[23] Technion-Israel Institute of Technology^[28] and New York University.^[35] 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 National Committee on American Foreign Policy^[36] and the Harlem Renaissance Award from the Abyssinian Development Corporation.^[12] In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, together with his wife, Joanna Semel Rose^[37] The main-belt asteroid 70712 Danieljoanna, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in 1999, was named in their honor, while 70718 HEAF was named for the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF).^[55]. Books dedicated to Daniel and Joanna S. Rose include George Steiner’s In Bluebeard’s Castle, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Life Upon These Shores—Looking at African American History, Geoffrey Hartman's Scars of the Spirit and David S. Rose's The Startup Checklist.^[38]

Personal life

Rose is married to Joanna (née Semel).^[39][40] the long-time chairwoman of Partisan Review Magazine.^[41] They have four children: David Semel Rose^[42] Joseph Benedict Rose,^[43] Emily Rose, and Gideon Gregory Rose.^[15]

References

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External links

• Daniel Rose official web site

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