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  1. The Ghermezian family (Persian: خانوادهٔ قرمزیان) is a Canadian business family of Iranian Jewish origin. The Ghermezians are best known for building North America's three largest shopping malls: West Edmonton Mall, Mall of America, and American Dream. The family has been based in Edmonton since 1964. The family members are ...

  2. Nov 15, 2019 · Here’s why. The CRA is going after the wealthy family behind the West Edmonton Mall. Here’s why. The Ghermezian family, Canadian owners of the American Dream mega mall, said the foreign ...

  3. Dec 14, 2016 · When Gov. Chris Christie decided he was going to try to salvage the long-planned and half-built megamall in the Meadowlands that for years was called Xanadu, he turned to a family from Canada with Iranian roots to get the job done. Best known for its sprawling Mall of America in Minnesota, the Canadian Ghermezian family and its company Triple ...

  4. Jan 10, 2018 · Jews of the Week: The Ghermezians. Jacob Ghermezian (1902-2000) was born to a religious Jewish family in Azerbaijan, and grew up in Iran. He started a business selling Persian rugs when he was just 17 years old. Within two decades, Ghermezian became one of Iran’s wealthiest businessmen. In 1943, he hosted Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in ...

  5. Jan 4, 2000 · West Edmonton Mall, built in stages in the 1980s for $1.1-billion, is the most visible symbol of their wealth. It includes an amusement park that at one time had more submarines than the Canadian ...

  6. Dec 3, 2015 · Their monetary system included the talent, the mina, selah, the shekel, the dinar, the prutah, and the lepton. The talent was worth 60 minae, the mina was worth 50 shekels, the shekel two dinars. As you might have anticipated, a dinar has the same value as a denarius. The dina was worth 20 prutahs, and the prutah was worth 2 lepta.

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  8. Sep 4, 1995 · The project ended up costing about $500 million, according to the Ghermezians, paid for primarily with their own money and bank loans, but with some money from the city government, which Hewes ...

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