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Harry Triguboff

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Harry Triguboff · Economics & Business

What

Founder of Meriton, Australia's largest apartment developer — more than 78,000 flats built, most of Sydney's modern skyline among them

When

3 March 1933, Dalian, China

Where

China · Australia

Biography

Harry Triguboff is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founder of Meriton, Australia's largest apartment developer — more than 78,000 flats built, most of Sydney's modern skyline among them

How & why

Harry Triguboff was born in China in 1933 to Russian Jewish parents and grew up in the Jewish community of Tianjin; he is Jewish, and his foundation funds a centre that helps immigrants to Israel document their Jewish descent. He reached Australia in 1948, drove taxis and ran a milk round before building his first block of flats in 1963. Meriton has since built more than seventy-eight thousand apartments and reshaped the skyline of Sydney, which is why he is known there as "High-Rise Harry".

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Founder of Meriton, Australia's largest apartment developer — more than 78,000 flats built, most of Sydney's modern skyline among them

1963

Source: Wikipedia — Harry Triguboff