Murray H. Goodman

Murray Goodman was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Liberty High School there.

Goodman served in the USAAF for 2.5 years. He then received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Lehigh University graduating in 1948, and was captain of the basketball team in 1947.

In 1960, he founded M.H. Goodman & Company, which in 1967 became The Goodman Company.

In 1980, he developed The Esplanade on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Since 2004, it changed its name to 150 Worth. In 2014, it Goodman sold it for $106 million.

Goodman has developed, owned and managed over 18 million square feet of shopping malls from Neptune, New Jersey, to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The Goodman Campus, one of three at Lehigh University, is named in his honor, Goodman having donated 550 acres in Saucon Valley in 1983 to build a sports complex, including the 16,000-seat Murray H. Goodman Stadium. He is Lehigh's most generous living benefactor.

Goodman is married to Joanie Mellor Goodman, they have five children, and live in West Palm Beach, Florida. They originally lived in Pennsylvania. In 2009, Goodman listed his apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York, at $32.5 million, but sold it to Benjamin Steinbruch two years later for $18.875 million. In 2015, he sold Turtle Lane Farm, his family's "lavish equestrian property" in Wellington, Miami for $9.675 million.

In 2013, their daughter Marley Goodman, a real estate agent and former member of the U.S. Equestrian Team, married Brett Overman, president and CEO of National Disaster Solutions, also of Palm Beach, at the Mar-a-Lago Club, and Rabbi Solomon Rothstein officiated.

They also have a son, Malcolm Goodman.