Rank #1475
Mitchell Goldhar
Net worth $2.9B
Real estate · Canada
- Born
- Jul 15, 1961
- Age
- 64
- Source
- Real estate
- Residence
- North York, Ontario
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, York University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Mitchell Goldhar founded real estate firm SmartCentres in the early 1990s, then developed more than 265 shopping centers in the ensuing two decades.
- In May 2015, he sold most of SmartCentre's assets to SmartREIT (formerly Calloway REIT), for about $880 million in shares, cash and assumed debt.
- Goldhar, who chairs SmartREIT, also owns various developments across Canada through his private company Penguin Investments.
- This includes a stake, along with SmartREIT, in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, a 100-acre master planned development north of Toronto.
- Goldhar owns Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv FC, which won the Israeli club league in 2019. He plays squash, tennis and hockey.
- Goldhar studied political science at York University and teaches a real estate development course at the University of Toronto.
- Goldhar convinced Walmart to let him open its first store in Canada in 1994, and went on to build 175 Walmart stores.
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