Garrett Kelleher
Garrett Kelleher is an Irish real estate developer and businessman with additional corporate interests in finance, film and education.
Kelleher was born in Dublin, Ireland. Educated at Belvedere College, Kelleher first went to the United States on a tennis scholarship. He then studied Math at Trinity College Dublin.
After completing his education, Kelleher returned to the US in 1985 owning and running a contracting and development business primarily involved in loft conversion in Chicago, employing more 120 people. He moved back to Dublin in 1996 and created Shelbourne Development, which focused primarily on core Dublin projects - redeveloping urban brownfield sites. Before the 2008 economic crash, Shelbourne was active in the London, Paris and Brussels. Kelleher is based mainly in Chicago and Los Angeles while dealing with claims for almost €47 million sought by National Asset Management Agency back in Ireland.
Kelleher is also the non-executive director of Lightstream Pictures. Lightstream produced Max Rose, starring Jerry Lewis and Rampart with Woody Harrelson and has other projects in work.
Kelleher is the Executive Chairman of St. Patrick's Athletic, financing their 2013 SSE Airtricity and 2014 FAI Cup winning campaigns.
At the request of Mayor Daley, Garrett was involved with the Chicago’s 2016 bid for the Olympics. In July 2006 Kelleher stepped in and bought a site at the intersection of the Chicago river and Lake Michigan after an earlier developer failed to close on the land. The 2.2-acre (8,900 m2) site would have housed the now-cancelled Chicago Spire. It would have been the tallest building in the US, and the world's tallest exclusively residential building. However, Chicago's failure to obtain the Olympics meant the project had to be scrapped.
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