Nathan Shapell
| Nathan Shapell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Nathan Schapelski March 7, 1922 Poland |
| Died | March 11, 2007 (aged 85) Beverly Hills, California |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Occupation | Real Estate developer, philanthropist |
| Known for | co-founder of Shapell Industries |
| Spouse(s) | Lilly Schreiber |
| Children | Vera Shapell Guerin |
| Relatives |
David Shapell (brother) Sala Shapell (sister) Max Webb (brother-in-law) Paul Guerin (son-in-law) |
Nathan Shapell (March 7, 1922 – March 11, 2007) was an American Holocaust survivor, real estate developer and philanthropist.
Nathan Schapelski was born on March 7, 1922 in Poland. He was a teenager during Nazi Germany's Invasion of Poland. His mother was deported to the Targowa ghetto. He was deported to the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps, but he managed to escape. After the war, he built housing for homeless Jews in Münchberg, Germany.
Shapell moved to Los Angeles, California with his wife in 1952, after reading about it in Life magazine, and they decided to stay. By 1955, together with his brother David and brother-in-law Max Webb, he co-founded Shapell Industries, a real estate development company. He served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Shapell developed the MGM ranch in Thousand Oaks, California, the residential community of Kite Hill in Laguna Niguel, California, the East Lake development in Yorba Linda, and Promenade Towers, a 510-unit project in Downtown Los Angeles. In the late 1980s, he developed Porter Ranch, California, adding commercial buildings to the residential community.
With Jona Goldrich and Sol B. Kest, Shapell developed some buildings in the Bunker Hill area of Downtown Los Angeles, including Promenade Towers, Grand Promenade and the California Plaza.
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