David Simon, who died Sunday at 64 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was the last of a kind: a builder in an age of talkers, a dealmaker who let the deals speak for themselves, a billionaire who never confused running a great company with saving the world. He built the largest retail real estate empire in the history of American commerce, generated returns of more than 4,500 percent for shareholders, and did it all without signing a single open letter, joining a single CEO coalition, or turning his company into a vehicle for his politics.
In an era when corporate titans competed to out-signal each other — on climate, on racial justice, on elections — Simon was conspicuously absent from the parade. When the 2020 BLM pledge wave swept through corporate America, Simon Property Group sat it out. The company filed no lobbying disclosures. Simon made no headlines for his politics. It appears that he never even went to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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