The brothers who built the Meadowhall shopping centre have been named as the richest people in Yorkshire in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List.
Eddie and Malcolm Healey have amassed a joint fortune of a staggering £1.5 billion, making them the 59th richest people in the UK.
The brothers have seen their wealth grow by £200 million in the last year alone.
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When it opened in 1991 Meadowhall was the largest shopping mall in the country.
Eddie, 77, made £420 million from the sale of the shopping centre some years ago.
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He also developed Centro, Europe’s largest shopping centre in Germany.
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Last year he sold his Parc Trostre retail park, near Llanelli in Wales, for £156 million.
His side of the family are now worth £950m, with his son, Mark, holding £250m of wind farm assets in Scotland.
Eddie Healey’s brother Malcolm, 70, made his money from building and selling Hygena Kitchens in Britain and then America.
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