Alan H Ginsburg

Alan H. Ginsburg has been involved in the real estate business for more than 43 years, developing affordable housing in several states. In his native state of Michigan, he worked for companies that developed apartment projects in the Midwest and Florida. After moving to Florida in 1981, he founded The CED Cos., which specializes in building multifamily communities. Ginsburg relocated to Florida because he already was active in business here and his oldest daughter, Jamie, was going to attend a special education school in Lake Wales. During the past few years, Ginsburg has donated millions of dollars to Central Florida organizations. In 2007, The Alan Ginsburg Family Foundation gave Florida Hospital $20 million — the largest donation in its history — for its new $255 million patient tower. At Ginsburg’s request, the tower’s lobby was designed to be welcoming to people of all faiths and features a memorial to Ginsburg’s late wife, Harriet, and son, Jeffrey, who both died in a plane crash in 2002. Ginsburg also gave $4 million to the library at the new University of Central Florida College of Medicine, $5 million for a scholarship endowment at Rollins College and $2 million to the Hillel Foundation for a new student facility. Wife, Kelly; son, Ron, 43; daughters, Jamie, 41, and Sharon, 39 Education: Attended Michigan State University for five years but didn’t graduate because I kept changing my major field of study