{{Short description|American real estate developer}} {{Infobox person | name = Jordon Perlmutter | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1931 | birth_place = Denver, Colorado, US | birth_name = | death_date = 2015 (age 84) | death_place = | education = | occupation = Real estate developer | known_for = | children = Lisa Perlmutter, Jay Perlmutter, Vicki Perlmutter, Jonathan Perlmutter | spouse = Essie Lou Goldberg }}
'''Jordon Perlmutter''' (1931–2015) was an American real estate developer.<ref name=DPObit>[http://www.denverpost.com/2015/12/07/pioneering-denver-developer-jordon-perlmutter-dies-at-age-84/ Denver Post: "Pioneering Denver developer Jordon Perlmutter dies at age 84"] October 17, 2011</ref><ref name=BJObit>[http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/real_deals/2015/12/denver-developer-jordon-perlmutter-dies-at-84.html Denver Business Journal: "Denver developer Jordon Perlmutter dies at 84 (Video)" by Molly Armbrister] December 7, 2015</ref><ref name=HallofFame>[http://www.coloradobusinesshalloffame.org/jordon-perlmutter.html Colorado Business Hall of Fame: "Jordon Perlmutter"] retrieved May 6, 2017</ref>
==Biography== Perlmutter was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in 1931, the son of Abe and Dora Perlmutter.<ref name=HallofFame /> His father was a general contractor<ref name=DPObit /> and he was and was raised on the west side of Denver<ref name=DPObit /> where he graduated from West High School.<ref name=HallofFame /> He attended the University of Denver on an athletic scholarship but was forced to cut his studies short to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard during the Korean War.<ref name=DPObit /> After his service, Perlmutter and his cousin, Samuel Primack, constructed a single family home in Denver in 1952 on a lot that his father had given him<ref name=DPObit /><ref>[http://www.denverpost.com/2010/02/08/builder-primack-left-footprint-in-denver-area/ Denver Post: "Builder Primack left footprint in Denver area" By Virginia Culver] February 8, 2010</ref> and together founded Perl-Mack Enterprises.<ref name=DPObit /> His brother-in-law, Bill Morrison, would later join the firm.<ref name=HallofFame /> Perl-Mack introduced the concept of planned communities to Denver with the 1959 construction of the 6,000 home Northglenn development, and later Montbello (1965) and Southglenn (now part of Centennial, Colorado).<ref name=DPObit /><ref name=BJObit /> Perl-Mack Enterprises built over 22,000 single and multi-family homes throughout the Denver metropolitan area<ref name=DPObit /><ref name=HallofFame /> as well Northglenn Mall, Southglenn Mall, and Southwest Plaza.<ref name=DPObit /><ref name=HallofFame /> In 1983, Perl-Mack was dissolved and he went into business with his sons, Jay, and founded Jordon Perlmutter & Co.<ref name=DPObit /> Later his son-in-law, Shell D. Cook, and son Jonathan would join the company.<ref name=DPObit />
==Philanthropy and boardships== In 2009, Perlmutter was inducted into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Colorado real estate community.<ref name=DPObit /><ref name=BJObit /> He served as a trustee at the University of Denver from 1991 to 2006.<ref name=DPObit /><ref name=BJObit /> He served on the board of directors on Shalom Cares, a Jewish not-for-profit nursing home and retirement community in Aurora that he had helped to build in 1992.<ref name=DPObit /><ref name=BJObit /> Perlmutter has served on the boards of directors of the Rose Medical Center and the Anti-Defamation League Executive Committee.<ref name=HallofFame />
==Personal life== In 1953, Perlmutter married Essie Lou Goldberg;<ref name=HallofFame /> they had four children: Jay Perlmutter; Jonathan Perlmutter; Lisa Perlmutter Cook; and Vicki Perlmutter Dansky.<ref name=DPObit /><ref>[http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16079coll32/id/111080 Denver Digital Library: "Essie Perlmutter, center, at her home in Denver on August 31, 2006, surrounded by her daughters, Lisa Cook Perlmutter, far left, and Vicki Perlmutter Dansky, left, and her daughters-in-law on the right, Lisa Klein Perlmutter, next to her, and at the far right is Lisa Wolf Perlmutter"] retrieved May 7, 2017</ref> Services were held at the Hebrew Educational Alliance; he is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery.<ref name=DPObit /> His nephew is U.S. congressman Ed Perlmutter.<ref>[http://westminsterwindow.com/stories/Jordan-Perlmutter-remembered-for-living-life-to-fullest,203703 Westminster Window: "Longtime businessman Jordan Perlmutter helped develop Northglenn area" by Corrie Sahling] December 14, 2015</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Perlmutter, Jordan}} Category:American businesspeople in the real estate industry Category:1931 births Category:2011 deaths Category:Businesspeople from Denver Category:20th-century American businesspeople Category:20th-century American philanthropists Category:20th-century American Jews Category:21st-century American Jews