The Ghermezian family is an Iranian Canadian family of Iranian Jewish origins who have developed several of the world’s largest shopping malls.The patriarch of the family, Jacob Ghermezian, (1895 – January 3, 2000) movedto Canada with his four sons in 1964. The four sons, Eskandar, Nader, Raphael and Bahman, grew the family rug business into a large real estate and construction company.Triple Five renamed the project American Dream Meadowlands and announced a major expansion and revamping of the under-construction mall, now expected to open in the summer of 2017.