Geoffrey Palmer

Geoffrey Harrison Palmer (born May 11, 1950) is an American billionaire real estate developer and Republican donor. Early life and education Palmer is the son of architect and developer Daniel Saxon Palmer, who was born as Dan Weissinger in Budapest, Hungary, in 1920. He is of Jewish descent. He was raised in Malibu, California. Palmer attended Santa Monica College before transferring to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he earned a degree in finance. Palmer then earned a juris doctor from Pepperdine School of Law. Career After clerking for a California superior court judge, Palmer decided to pursue real estate development of multifamily housing instead of law as a profession, founding GH Palmer Associates in 1978. Palmer opened his first major development in Santa Clarita, California in 1985. During the 1990s, Palmer focused on building more than 2000 market-rate housing in downtown Los Angeles and its suburbs. In 2001, Palmer completed the 632-unit Medici, the first of a series of downtown Italian-inspired apartment blocks situated beside freeways, which coincided with a revival of downtown Los Angeles. Other buildings in the "Renaissance Collection" built by Palmer include the Orsini, Visconti, Piero, Da Vinci, and Lorenzo.