Rank #601
Edward Roski Jr
Net worth $6.6B
Real estate · United States
- Born
- Dec 25, 1938
- Age
- 87
- Source
- Real estate
- Residence
- Los Angeles, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern California
Net worth over time
Biography
- Through his Majestic Realty, Los Angeles-based developer Edward Roski Jr. owns more than 92 million square feet of industrial real estate across the country.
- Majestic Realty is developing a 441-acre business park on the site of Pennsylvania's former Bethlehem Steel plant, with tenants including Crayola and Walmart.
- Roski's father founded Majestic Realty in 1948.
- Roski Jr. helped lead development of the Staples Center in downtown L.A., and is a minority owner of the L.A. Kings and the L.A. Lakers.
- In 2016, Roski and his wife, Gayle, announced a $25 million gift to endow an eye institute at the University of Southern California, where they met as undergraduates.
- Roski spent four years as a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam, earning two Purple Hearts.
- An adventurer in his free time, Roski has climbed Mount Everest, cycled across Russia and Burma and submerged in a Russian submarine to the Titanic.