Rank #747
Bob Gaglardi & family
Net worth $5.6B
Hotels · Canada
- Born
- Feb 19, 1941
- Age
- 85
- Source
- Hotels
- Residence
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, Letourneau College
Net worth over time
Biography
- Bob Gaglardi founded Northland Properties, which has interests in hotels, restaurants, sports and construction.
- Gaglardi launched the business in 1963 with a $5,000 loan, opening his first Sandman Inn hotel four years later in British Columbia.
- He continued to put up Sandman Inns throughout Canada, plus expanded into real estate and restaurants.
- In 2011 he and his son, Tom, purchased the then-bankrupt Dallas Stars NHL team in a $240 million deal; Forbes now values the team at $2 billion.