Carlo Baldassarra (; born 1939) is an

Italian-Canadian Italian Canadians or Italo-Canadians (; ) are Canadian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who migrated to Canada as part of the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Canada. Accordi ...

businessman who founded homebuilder company Greenpark Group.

Career and family

Carlo Baldassarra was born in Italy, and immigrated to Canada in 1958 at the age of 19. Less than 10 years later, in 1967, Baldassarra founded a homebuilder company, Greenpark Group along with two partners Jack Wine and Philip Rechtsman. Greenpark Group is now fully owned by Carlo and his family. He and his wife Angela had three children Mauro, Armando and Michael, who work as senior executives at Greenpark Group. In 2018, Greenpark Group was revealed as the inaugural owners of

York United FC York United Football Club (formerly known as York9 FC) is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario. The club competes in the Canadian Premier League and plays its home games at York University's York Lions Stadium. History ...

(then known as York9 FC) of the

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, with Michael as chairman. Baldassarra was inducted into the

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in 2012, which pays tribute to achievements of Italians. On April 25, 2014, Baldassarra received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th annual Building Industry and Land Development Association awards, recognizing his impacts within the building and development industry. In December 2017, Baldassarra donated $5 million to the construction of the

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. During the 2023 season, it was announced that York United was sold from the Baldassarra family to the Canadian Soccer Business with plans to transfer the club to new ownership.

References

1939 births Living people Italian emigrants to Canada Businesspeople from Ontario Canadian businesspeople in real estate York United FC non-playing staff Canadian soccer chairmen and investors {{Canada-business-bio-stub