Glenn Lee Weinberg
Baltimore attorney, retired executive of Cordish Companies was ‘warm and caring and philanthropic, too’; he died at 68
Glenn Lee Weinberg, an attorney and retired executive of The Cordish Companies, died of a heart attack while vacationing in New Zealand last Thursday, his 68th birthday. He was a resident of Owings Mills and Austin, Texas.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Nathan Weinberg, a trustee of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, and Lillian Shapiro, a teacher and homemaker. He was a 1974 graduate of Pikesville High School, where he played basketball.
As a teenager he spent summers in Hawaii working for his uncle, Harry Weinberg, the real estate investor and shopping center owner who founded a philanthropic foundation. The younger Mr. Weinberg painted stripes for parking lot spaces for his uncle and was also his business apprentice.
Mr. Weinberg earned an economics degree from the George Washington University in 1978 and was a graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he also served on the Law Review. He also had a master’s degree in taxation law from George Washington.
As a young man he worked for the Frank, Bernstein law firm and became acquainted with developer David Cordish.
“I met him and liked Glenn instantly. He had the best legal mind. I’d call him a lawyer’s lawyer,” Mr. Cordish said.
“He joined me and soon was a full partner. He
headed up and was the division chief for our larger strip centers, the kind of place with a Target or Walmart and 30 or 40 smaller stores.”
“He was extremely sharp. He could read through a 250-page document and find something the rest of us were overlooking,” Mr. Cordish said.
“He had a dry, understated sense of humor. He was warm and caring and philanthropic, too.”
He met his future wife, Debbi Windesheim, on a blind date at the old Harvey’s Greenspring Station. They had been introduced by her sister.
“It was love at first sight,” his wife said.
Mr. Weinberg retired in 2006 and had homes in Owings Mills, Austin, Texas, and Oahu.
Mr. Weinberg was a coffee fancier, his wife said.
“He was always looking for a new bean or the best beans,” she said. “We had more coffee machines at home than most businesses. We had roasters, grinders and French presses. His favorite drink was a mixture of milk and espresso, a cortado.”
Despite his fascination with coffee, he had only two cups a day.
Mr. Weinberg loved live jazz and other musical varieties — including Broadway shows — and made challah with a Thermomix and enjoyed bike trips.
“He loved gadgets and was not shy about buying a first-edition invention,” his wife said. “But he had thoroughly researched them first.”
Mr. Weinberg played backyard baseball with his brother, Joseph Weinberg, and hosted basketball games in their joint Owings Mills backyards.
His family said he never forgot a birthday, responded promptly to text messages, and was the emergency contact for numerous family and friends.
Mr. Weinberg was a donor to AIPAC, The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore and American Jewish World Service, among other organizations.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at the Peggy and Yale Gordon Center for the Performing Arts at 3506 Gwynnbrook Ave. in Owings Mills.
Survivors include his wife, Debbi Windesheim Weinberg, a Baltimore County Schools teacher and counselor who founded the Girls’ Empowerment Mission; two sons, Tyler Weinberg, of Chicago, and Jesse Weinberg, of New York City; two brothers, Donn Weinberg and Joseph Weinberg, both of Owings Mills; and a grandson.