Paul Bloomfield (February 1946 – April 2016) was a British property investor known as "Boom-boom" Bloomfield.
Career
Bloomfield was involved with a string of high-profile deals during the 1980s and was known as the man that sourced the deals that made
Tony Clegg's
Mountleigh a stock market favourite in 1986–87.
In 1989, it emerged that he was the joint owner of the
Alton Towers
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theme park and a leisure venture at
Battersea Power Station
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after he formed a joint venture, Alton International, with John Broome of Alton Group. Broome was struggling to complete the Battersea project.
He became bankrupt during the 1990s property crash. He later moved to Russia where he made successful deals in the former Soviet states. He helped to raise the finance for the redevelopment of
Wembley Stadium
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.
See also
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Jan Bonde Nielsen
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Mohammad Ghadami
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Timur Kulibayev
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References
External links
"Bloomfield’s fall and rise" ''
The Times
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'', 5 September 2005
1946 births
2016 deaths
20th-century British businesspeople
British real estate and property developers
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