Robert Rapaport

Robert D. Rapaport of Palm Beach died Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. He was 80. Mr. Rapaport, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, was born Nov. 7, 1936, in New York, the son of Irving and Stella Rapaport. After graduating from The Wharton School and then Columbia University with a master’s degree in economics, he moved to Florida, where he started in real estate. In the 1960s, he founded and built Century Village, the first condominium community in then-remote western Palm Beach County. He went on to develop Sterling Village, Kings Point, Hampshire Gardens and several other communities, shopping centers, hotels, cable networks and banks. Mr. Rapaport is survived by his wife of 38 years, Cobey Rapaport; two daughters, Elisa Rapaport and husband Michael Schoenbaum, and Tali Rapaport and husband Nicholas Josefowitz; two sons, Fred Rapaport and wife Lori, and Jeffrey Rapaport and wife Laura; eight grandchildren; and a brother, Myron Rapaport and his wife, Barbara.