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In The News
ORLANDO, Fla. (May/June, 2009)
The Risk-Taker
ORLANDO — Harris Rosen can admit it now, because there's nobody around to beat him up: he used to cheat at marbles. Growing up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Rosen was the self-described "king of the marbles." But more than six decades later, the jovial hotel owner can cop to the fact that it wasn't all about skill. "When no one was looking, I would find the smallest obstacle to put right in front of my pee-wee so that the marble would go this way and that," he recalls with a grin. "I took very few hits. When marble season came, that's when my entrepreneurial juices started flowing."
In addition to being a marbles shark, Rosen used to run a nightcrawler business; when he found a particularly long one, he'd cut it in half and sell it as two. And while serving in the Army in Germany after graduating from the Hotel school, he bought tulip bulbs and sold them on the base; he hired a local woman to dress in a Dutch-girl costume notable for its décolletage and instructed her to bend down whenever possible. They sold out within hours.
Clearly, Rosen had the enterprising itch from early on. Today, he's the president and CEO of Rosen Hotels & Resorts, an Orlando-based firm whose holdings range from the nation's largest Quality Inn to the luxurious Rosen Shingle Creek Resort.
ORLANDO, Fla. (March, 2007)
'An amazing story' of giving that could change our world
ORLANDO — Harris Rosen is not the kind of guy whose name usually makes it into the space I inhabit on the pages of this newspaper. He is neither a presidential wannabe nor a political thug. Rosen is not a bigot or a high-profile fool. And as best I can tell, he isn't a heartless robber baron. What he is, however, is a very wealthy man who likes his charitable giving to be up close and personal.
Rosen, who owns seven Orlando-area hotels, has put to good use Booker T. Washington's admonition to "cast down your buckets where you are." Since 1993, Rosen has used his wealth to help revitalize Tangelo Park, a once drug-infested, trouble-plagued unincorporated community near his International Drive hotel properties.
ORLANDO, Fla. (February, 2007)
Florida Icon Harris Rosen President and COO, Rosen Hotels & Resorts, age 67
ORLANDO — Harris Rosen is not the kind of guy whose name usually makes it into the space I inhabit on the pages of this newspaper.
Published 2/1/2007 in Florida Trend The reason I'm in it is because when we do a good job -- and we do that fortunately fairly often -- it's so nice to hear people tell you how much they enjoyed their stay and how much they relaxed and how much they accomplished at their meeting or their convention here, how much they enjoyed their banquet or their wedding or their bar mitzvah. I mean that's what it's all about.
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