Laurence C Glazer

Glazer, the CEO and managing partner of Rochester-based Buckingham Properties LLC, and his wife, Jane Glazer, died in September 2014 when the private plane they were traveling in to Naples, Fla., crashed off the coast of Jamaica. Jane Glazer was founder and CEO of QCI Direct, a catalog and online consumer products company. Glazer grew up in modest circumstances in a North Buffalo neighborhood of unassuming two-family homes. He earned an MBA from Columbia University and worked for a while in finance in Manhattan before marrying Jane Lovenheim, whose family owned the commercial printing firm Great Lakes Press. In 1970, Glazer went to work for the printing company. He ended up as CEO, a position he held until 1983, when it was sold to Case Hoyt Corp. for some $46 million. He got his start in real estate in 1970. Local attorney Harold Samloff, an acquaintance and sometime tennis partner, approached him with a deal to buy into a five-unit apartment property on Buckingham Street. The Glazers were philanthropists whose support had an impact on organizations ranging from the Jewish Community Center to WXXI Public Broadcasting. The Glazers’ son, Kenneth Glazer, is managing partner of Buckingham. Larry Glazer, a prominent real estate developer, was called the "patron saint" of Rochester, New York, for his part in reviving the structural relics of the city’s past. The CEO and managing partner of Buckingham Properties, was at the forefront of downtown Rochester's resurgence, with a portfolio that included many of the city’s most iconic buildings. Buckingham Properties, either owns, co-owns, or manages nearly 13 million square feet (four million square meters) of real estate space, including some of downtown Rochester's best-known buildings: Midtown Tower, Xerox Square, and the Bausch and Lomb building. Both Glazers served terms as members of the Jewish Federation of Rochester board. Larry Glazer had a successful real estate business and was also a member of the Jewish Home of Rochester board. The couple left three children, Melinda, Richard and Kenneth, and six grandchildren.