R. Donahue Peebles
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R. Donahue Peebles (b.March 2, 1960) An African-American hotel pioneer, and real estate developer in Washington D.C. and Miami Beach, founder, president and chief executive officer of The Peebles Corporation (formerly Peebles Atlantic Development Corporation).
Donahue Peebles served as a Congressional page in 1978.
Appointed by Marion Barry to the Washington D.C. Board of Real Property Assessment & Appeal), he became chairman in 1984 and served until 1988. In 1989, he started a highly successful commercial tax assessment appeal firm in Washington, D.C. By 1991, appealing over 400 tax assessment appeal cases annually with the highest success rate of any tax assessment appeals firms in Washington, D.C.
In 1990, Cuban-American politicians in Greater Miami snubbed Nelson Mandela by denying him an official welcoming ceremony for refusing to repudiate his longtime supporter Fidel Castro. This resulted in a national boycott, 1990 to 1993, known as the "Black boycott of Miami tourism"[1]. The settlement plan for this boycott featured the Peebles development of the $37 million dollar Sheraton Suites Hotel, opened in 1996, and touted at the time as largest black owned major hotel in the country.
In 1998, Peebles aquired the historic Miami Beach Bath Club and developed it into a luxury condominium complex.
