Camrost Felcorp CEO makes $15-million donation to University of Toronto

A $15-million donation from the CEO of Toronto developer Camrost Felcorp will found the David Feldman Centre for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

The gift, announced Thursday, comes from Mr. Feldman and his wife Angela, their family and Camrost Felcorp. In addition to adding his name to Rotman’s existing collection of real estate courses for undergraduate and graduate degree programs, the centre will fund two new endowed chairs, offer new scholarships and expand the number of speaking and community engagement activities.

“I think the Feldman family really came to the school having this vision of trying to create talent within the Canadian marketplace rather than getting that talent elsewhere,” said Susan Christoffersen, Dean of the Rotman School and William A. Downe BMO Chair in Finance. Right now, she said, some of the top real estate development education comes out of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (where Ms. Christoffersen earned her PhD).