Trammell Crow is credited with the creation of several major real estate projects, including the Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California.
19 Facts About Trammell Crow
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Trammell Crow was the fifth of eight children reared in East Dallas.
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In 1933, Trammell Crow landed a job for roughly $13 a week as a runner for Mercantile National Bank in Dallas while attending night school in accounting at Southern Methodist University.
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Trammell Crow then worked for three years as a Certified Public Accountant before joining the United States Navy in 1940.
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Trammell Crow used his background in accounting and was offered a commission auditing the books of defense contractors.
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Trammell Crow left the Navy after achieving the rank of commander and then returned to Dallas and saw opportunities for the growth of the city.
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Trammell Crow became an agent for North American Van Lines, a moving company.
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Trammell Crow built his first warehouse in 1948 and leased it to Ray-O-Vac Battery Company.
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The warehouse was larger than what Ray-O-Vac needed, and Trammell Crow was able to seek additional tenants.
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Trammell Crow convinced Decca Records to sign for the leftover space, and began a career as a "speculative builder".
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Trammell Crow continued from his start with a single-story warehouse on the banks of the Trinity River in the late 1940s.
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Trammell Crow once had interests in nearly 300,000,000 square feet of developed real estate, comprising eight thousand properties in more than one hundred cities.
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The Trammell Crow Company was privately held until 1997 when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TCC.
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Trammell Crow was an enthusiastic collector of East Asian art.
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In 1981, Trammell Crow received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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In 1989, Trammell Crow was an original inductee of the Woodrow Wilson High School Hall of Fame, which was established in connection with the school's sixtieth anniversary.
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Trammell Crow was instrumental in bringing to Dallas the 1984 Republican National Convention, which renominated US President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush.
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Trammell Crow died at age 94 in his sleep at his ranch in East Texas on January 14,2009.
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Trammell Crow is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas.