Patrice Pastor | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Monegasque |
| Occupation | Chairman of J.B. Pastor & Fils |
| Father | Victor Pastor |
| Relatives | Michel Pastor (uncle) Hélène Pastor (aunt) Philippe Pastor (brother) |
Patrice Pastor (born 1973) is a Monegasque businessman and property developer. He has been chairman of the Monaco development company J.B. Pastor & Fils since 2002.
The real estate empire of the Pastor family in Monaco started when the stonemason Jean-Baptiste Pastor created the construction company J.B. Pastor & Fils in 1926. His son Gildo expanded the family business to real estate development. At his death in 1990, the Pastor family owned 500,000 square meters of real estate property in Monaco, a 19-billion euro fortune that was inherited by Gildo's three children: Victor (1936-2002), Hélène (1937-2014) and Michel (1943-2014). [1] [2]
Patrice Pastor is Victor's son, and succeeded his father at the helms of J.B. Pastor & Fils after his passing in 2002. [1] [2] He is also the head of Pastor Real Estate based in London. [3] He was appointed President of Monaco's syndicate of construction employers (Chambre patronale du bâtiment de Monaco) in 2008. [4] He owned 20% of the Monaco soccer club between 2009 and 2012, [5] was the owner of the weekly L'Observateur de Monaco until 2010, [6] and a 5% shareholder of Société des bains de mer de Monaco from 2020 to 2023. [7]
He acquired several properties in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, [8] which led to a local feud in 2023 when he requested a Mills Act application (property tax for historic properties) for the Frank Lloyd Wright house he intended to renovate. [9] Residents feared that his privatization of the cliffs would change the quaint nature of Carmel. [10] He was suspected of being behind the Dossiers du Rocher files, a digital smear campaign targeting Monegasque personalities close to Prince Albert II, [11] but Pastor denied being the whistleblower. [12] Pastor was predominant in financing and constructing Monaco's new district on the sea, Mareterra, which Prince Albert II called "our first national eco-district" in regards to the ecological and engineering innovation of the complex designed by grade-A architects Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and Norman Foster. [13] [14]