Robert Campeau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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entrepreneur real estate developer
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Rayside-Balfour, Ontario, Canada
About Robert Campeau
- Robert Joseph Antoine Campeau (August 3, 1923 – June 12, 2017) was a Canadian financier and real estate developer, who engineered the largest retailing bankruptcy at the time in U.S.
- history.
- Starting from a single house constructed in Ottawa, Ontario, Campeau built a large land development corporation around the development of the suburb of Kanata.
- Expansion in the U.S.
- led Campeau to diversify into the ownership of retail department stores to anchor commercial development projects.
- The Campeau Corporation used leveraged buyouts to buy the department stores and went bankrupt when it could not maintain the debt payments.
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