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R. Donahue Peebles : ウィキペディア英語版 | R. Donahue Peebles
Roy Donahue “Don” Peebles (born March 2, 1960) is a real estate entrepreneur, author and political activist. Peebles is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Peebles Corporation, the largest African American-owned real estate development and ownership company in the US, with a multibillion-dollar development portfolio of luxury hotels, high-rise residential and commercial properties in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Miami Beach, and it was recently awarded its first project in the city of Boston. In April 2015, Black Enterprise named Peebles as one of the “The Business Trailblazers and Titans of Black America: 40 most powerful African Americans in business.” Peebles and his firm have been featured by ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Forbes'', ''Black Enterprise'', ''Ebony'', ''The Miami Herald'', CNBC and ABC, and he appears regularly as a guest host or commentator on CNBC, CNN and Fox to advise on real estate, economic and political issues.〔 In May 2009, ''Forbes'' listed Peebles in the top ten of the wealthiest black Americans, and in January 2015 it estimated his net worth to be over $700 million. == Background == Peebles was born in Washington, D.C. to Ruth Yvonne Willoughby and Roy Donahue Peebles Sr. His grandfather was a doorman at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington D.C. Peebles has said that assisting his father as car mechanic while still a child contributed to his strong work ethic. At the age of eight, Peebles moved to Detroit, where he spent five years until returning to Washington D.C. and completed high school while serving as a Congressional Page.
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