Daniel Rose (born 1929) is an American real estate developer,Urban Land Institute: "Real Estate Legends" retrieved September 22, 2016 philanthropist,Bridgespan: "Daniel Rose Commits His Time to Achieve Real Results for Kids" retrieved September 22, 2016 and essayist.The Huffington Post: "Daniel Rose" retrieved September 22, 2016Rose Associates: "Daniel Rose – Chairman" retrieved May 28, 2016
Rose developed the Pentagon City complex adjacent to Reagan Washington National Airport, the One Financial Center and Keystone Building office towers that anchored the redevelopment of Downtown Boston, and conceived and reinvented a New York City real estate apartment complex into Manhattan Plaza for the Performing Arts.
A philanthropist,Oxford Literary Festival: Daniel Rose speaks on the Harlem Educational Activities Fund retrieved October 8, 2016 he founded the Philanthropy Roundtable: "Making moves to prepare kids for life" by Victorino Matus retrieved October 30, 2016 inner-city youth education program, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund,Ebony. "How a NYC Youth Program Changes Lives—a Dream at a Time" by K. Barrett Bilaly retrieved October 30, 2016 he also established academic and professional educational programs, and served in several 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 and wine, and housing.
Early life and education Rose was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, one of three sons of Belle and Samuel B. Rose.New York Times: "Frederick P. Rose, 2d-Generation Builder And a Major Philanthropist, Is Dead at 75" By Charles V. Bagli September 16, 1999New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths Rose, Frederick P." September 19, 1999 He has two brothers, Elihu Rose and Frederick P. Rose. He attended Horace Mann High School in The Bronx and then Yale University.Yale Daily News: "For Jews at Yale, a struggle to be accepted" April 4, 2001 retrieved September 22, 2016
Career
Rose served as a military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.Counselors of Real Estate: "Biography – DANIEL ROSE" retrieved May 28, 2016
Following his military service, he joined the family real estate development company, Rose Associates, founded by his father and his uncle, David Rose in 1928.Rose Associates: "Our History" retrieved September 22, 2016 Among other major projects, Daniel Rose led the development of Pentagon City in Arlington County, Virginia, adjacent to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and 99 High Street and One Financial Center adjacent to South Station in Downtown Boston as President of the firm, and became Chairman after the death of his brother, Frederick P. Rose in 1999.
As an institutional consultant, Rose was responsible for the creation and implementation of the innovative “housing for the performing arts” concept for New York's Manhattan Plaza.New York Times: "Performers May Get W. 42nd St. Housing" August 2, 1976 retrieved September 29, 2016 By 2006, Rose Associates managed over 31,000 apartments in New York City, including Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.New York Observer: "The Rose Family" By Jason Horowitz December 18, 2006New York Times: "In City Real Estate, Old Clans Are Shrewd Again" By Charles V. Bagli February 8, 2010
He was a Director of 20 Dreyfus-sponsored mutual funds,Bloomberg: "Daniel Rose" retrieved September 24, 2016 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, as Expert/Consultant to the Commissioner of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and as a founding director of the New York Convention Center Development Corp.
In his later years, Rose's reputation as a "legendary"Urban Land Institute: Real Estate Industry Legend Daniel Rose... retrieved October 8, 2016The Counselors of Real Estate: 'A Conversation with Industry Legend, Daniel Rose' retrieved October 8, 2016 business executive established him as a mentor and role model for aspiring young entrepreneurs and real estate executives, and many of his epigrams and quotations have gained wide currency.Wall Street Journal: 'Sayings From My Father' retrieved October 8, 2016
Philanthropy and public service Rose is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund,Harlem Educational Activities Fund: "Who We Are" retrieved September 22, 2016 a highly acclaimed initiative that has helped thousands of inner city youth enter college since 1989. He has served on the boards of the New York State Council for the Humanities; the New York Institute for the Humanities;New York Institute for the Humanities: "Daniel Rose" retrieved September 22, 2016 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.
Rose's other major philanthropic initiatives include serving as Chairman of the Board of the Horace Mann School,Pro Rhetoric: "What a well-lived life is and how to achieve it", May 31, 2012 an institution to which he has contributed endowed chairs and which honored him, together with his family, with the naming of Rose Hall; the establishment of the Daniel Rose Chair in Urban Economics at M.I.T. (the nation's first),MIT Center for Real Estate: Daniel Rose Chair retrieved June 14, 2021 the Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute,Urban Land Institute: "Rose Center for Public Leadership" retrieved September 22, 2016 the joint Yale/Technion Rose Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism Program,Yale School of Management: "Technion Israel Institute of Technology and Yale School of Management Partner to Research Homeland Security and Counterterrorism" retrieved September 22, 2016 the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech (founding Board Member),Chairman of Rose Associates Awarded Technion Honorary Doctorate retrieved September 22, 2016 the Helping Africa Foundation (Chairman),Helping Africa Foundation: Leadership retrieved September 22, 2016 and a major new initiative in Accra, Ghana to restore and rebuild the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture. With his late wife, Joanna Semel Rose, Rose has contributed to hundreds of other charitable organizations addressing racial, religious, academic, and humanitarian issues. Among their philanthropic activities was providing the seed funding that enabled production of the award-winning educational television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
A military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, Rose has pursued his interest in foreign affairs as an officer of the Foreign Policy Association,Foreign Policy Association "Annual Report 2002" retrieved September 22, 2016 the Council on Foreign RelationsCouncil on Foreign Relations: Membership Roster retrieved September 22, 2016 and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was a founding board member of the EastWest Institute and was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Vice Chairman of the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S.-government-funded organization that promotes free trade in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. He then became a Director of the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, its “legacy” philanthropic foundation. From 2004 to 2006, he was a frequent participant by telephone on Forum, an English language political discussion TV program broadcast from Tehran, Iran.American Academy of Arts and Sciences retrieved June 14, 2021
Writings An essayist and speechwriter,Foreword Reviews: "Making a Living, Making a Life" Rose is a six-time winner of the Cicero Speechwriting Award given annually by Vital Speeches of the Day magazine. A 2015 collection of his speeches, "Making a Living, Making a Life"Amazon.com: "Making a Living, Making a Life" retrieved September 22, 2016 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."Kirkus Review: "The Best Books of 2015" retrieved September 22, 2016 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.". A second compilation, "The Examined Life",Amazon.com: "The Examined Life" retrieved June 14, 2021 was published in 2019, containing more recent essays and speeches as well as personal vignettes of his life. In addition to his own works, Rose contributed to "The Vintage Magazine Consumer Guide to Wine", and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s "America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans".
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. In 2003, he was named Ernst & Young's “Entrepreneur of the Year” in real estate. He has received Honorary Doctorates from Long Island University; Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and New York University.NYU Tandon School of Engineering Alumni Magazine: "A Natural Boost" retrieved September 22, 2016
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,National Committee on American Foreign Policy: "NCAFP Awards Gala 2016" retrieved October 20, 2016 the Harlem Renaissance Award from the Abyssinian Development Corporation, and the Golden Plate Award from the Academy of Achievement.Golden Plate Honorees In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, together with his wife, Joanna Semel Rose 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).
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, Fareed Zakaria's "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World", and David S. Rose's The Startup Checklist.About Daniel Rose retrieved August 2, 2017 Charles Duff's book, "The North Atlantic Cities" was also dedicated to him.
Personal life