He was 85. Nathan Shapell (March 7, 1922 – March 11, 2007) was an American Holocaust survivor, real estate developer and philanthropist. [12], Shapell died on March 11, 2007, and he was buried in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California. Nathan Shapell, a leading California home builder perhaps best known for developing Porter Ranch in the hills of the northwestern San Fernando Valley, has died. He was the longest-serving Commissioner in state government in the 20th century, having served as a member of the Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy (known as "The Little Hoover Commission"), from 1969 to 1997, and chaired the Commission from 1976 to 1994. [1] His mother was deported to the Targowa ghetto. [1][6], Shapell moved to Los Angeles, California with his wife in 1952, after reading about it in Life magazine, and they decided to stay. Under his leadership, the Commission issued scores of reports with hundreds of recommendations that the Legislature and Governor have implemented to save California billions of dollars. In 1984, the company reverted to private ownership. “Nathan Shapell exemplified generosity, tolerance and civic responsibility,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told The Times on Monday in an e-mail.
Last year, the privately held company’s revenues were estimated to be between $400 million and $500 million. ‘These voices aren’t going to stop’: Hundreds in L.A. protest over Breonna Taylor case. "The Little Hoover Commission" was important not just for California, but for the federal government, too," Shapell adds. When Ronald Reagan became President, he initiated a similar reform effort, establishing the Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (known as "The Grace Commission"). Her mother was also an Auschwitz survivor and worked as an interpreter at several of the war crimes trials.
Nathan Shapell. © 2020 California Homebuilding Foundation. Among other achievements, the panel instituted Medi-Cal reforms, raised nursing home standards and reformed education spending. Shapell remained chairman and chief executive of the company known for high-quality construction and astute land purchases. “He swore that day, if he ever had a chance to help people, especially children, he would.”. “He is a giant in the California home-building industry, on the level of ... Eli Broad,” Randall Lewis, an executive vice president of Kaufman & Broad Home Corp. of Los Angeles, told The Times in 1999. Nathan Shapell, is the Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Shapell Industries in Beverly Hills, California. Nathan Shapell was an American Holocaust survivor, real estate developer and philanthropist. [1][3][4][6] He served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Since the company's inception, Shapell Industries has built nearly 80,000 houses.
7 likes. He spent the rest of the 1940s helping to build housing for homeless Jews in Munchberg, a small German town.
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