- Alan Casden
Alan I. Casden (born 1945) is a self-made
real estate billionaire who lives inBeverly Hills, California .He is an accounting graduate of what is now the Leventhal School of Accounting at the
University of Southern California . Mr. Casden enrolled at USC as a sophomore after an academically disappointing freshman year atUCLA . In 2000, he gave $10.6 million to USC to benefit the Institute for Study of Jewish Role in American Life, endow a dean’s chair at the Leventhal School and create the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast within the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. He is on the USC Board ofTrustee s. [http://www.usc.edu/about/administration/trustees/ Board of Trustees] , University of Southern California, "Accessed April 13, 2008."]His former company, Casden Properties was a
Los Angeles -based builder of high-density inner-city real estate that was bought byAIMCO in 2004. Casden is a loyal backer of Jewish causes, includingSimon Wiesenthal Center'sMuseum of Tolerance .References
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_Alan-I-Casden_PUFG.html Alan Casden in Forbes]
External links
* [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12250 JewishJournal.com]
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