Bob grew up in Western Pennsylvania on a large dairy, beef and hog farm and relocated to Georgia after an enlistment in the US Navy. Bob started his real estate career in Atlanta, Georgia with the Thomas S. Monaghan (TSM) / Domino’s Pizza organization as Director of Operations. Bob designed and constructed commissaries for Domino’s Pizza Distribution throughout the United States. He later relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan where he was involved in the construction of the Domino’s Pizza Headquarters as well as shopping center development and construction for TSM.
Bob relocated back to Georgia with the Kmart Corporation as Regional Facilities Manager responsible for the southeast Kmart store facility operations including construction related to new Kmart store development and Kmart store expansions. In 1993, Bob joined the Koll Company as Director of Operations, managing facility operations for Koll’s Bank of America portfolio of high rise buildings and critical operations facilities throughout Atlanta. Bob also performed facility assessment evaluation audits for Koll throughout the US and Mexico supporting clients including, Delta Air Lines, Northern Telecom, Champion International, ATT and Bank of America.
Bob launched a corporation known as Facilities Engineering in 1995. The Home Depot Corporate Headquarters was Facilities Engineering’s first account. In 2000, Bob transitioned the management company from Facilities Engineering to Corporate Facilities Group, Inc., with client’s including The Home Depot Corporate Headquarters, Home Depot Shopping Centers, Delta Air Lines, General Electric, Kaiser Permanente Medical, Circuit City Headquarters, CMD, RREEF Development, Sonae Sierra, Brazil and The Veterans Affairs.
Bob’s business philosophy of giving back to our communities and paying our success forward, a “Whatever It Takes” approach to “customer service excellence”, combined with Bob’s philosophy of making CFG’s Team Members the company’s Number One Asset, has propelled CFG to over 23 million square feet of managed real estate throughout North and South America.
As Bob would always say, “there is no finish line in our business” and “we will to continue to raise the bar of service excellence in all that we do”.
Regrettably, Bob passed away in 2008 after a sudden illness. Our family here at CFG consider it an honor and a priviledge to carry on his legacy of "Whatever It Takes".
