Affordable housing champion, businessman Harvey Vengroff dies

Entrepreneur remembered as fighter for less fortunate.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 2:15 p.m. October 11, 2018
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File. Harvey Vengroff died Oct. 11. He was 77 years old.
File. Harvey Vengroff died Oct. 11. He was 77 years old.
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When Mark Vengroff was 15, in the mid 1990s, he bought his dad, Harvey Vengroff, a pair of wacky and wildly colorful Jams shorts for his birthday.

 

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