A Trammell Crow time machine...
Check out this Trammell Crow Company profile from 1984, along with a D Magazine profile from 2014 that highlights some Trammell Crow descendent companies, and a quick guide to deciphering the "Crow" real estate companies.
It's hard to overstate Trammell Crow's influence on the commercial real estate industry.
1948: Trammell Crow founds Trammell Crow Company.
1965: Lincoln Property Company is founded as a partnership between Trammell Crow and Mack Pogue.
1974: Lucy Crow joins her father’s company as a retail leasing agent in Houston; her brother Harlan joins the firm’s Houston industrial group.
1977: Mac Progue buys out Crow’s share of Lincoln Property Company
1978: Harlan Crow begins working for TCC in Dallas.
1978: Lucy Crow and Henry Billingsley marry; Billingsley Company is launched.
1979: Bill Duval joins Lincoln Property Company as a partner.
1980: J.D. Kelley and Howard Lundeen form Kelley-Lundeen Inc.
1980: Jeff Swope leaves TCC and joins Centre Development.
1980: Lucy Billingsley becomes a partner in Billingsley Company.
1986: Harlan Crow becomes president of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. Two years later, he becomes chairman and CEO of Crow Holdings.
1989: Vantage splits up and the brokerage group becomes Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services.
1991: Holt Lunsford leaves TCC, and starts The Holt Cos., later rebranded as Holt Lunsford Commercial.
1991: Jeff Swope leaves Centre Development and forms Champion Partners.
1994: John Walsh III leaves TCC. and launches TIG Real Estate Services.
1994: Marc Myers leaves to establish Myers & Crow Company, Ltd.
1996: Brokers Lee Belland and Mike McVean leave TCC to launch Stream Realty Partners.
2000: Santaularia buys Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services from its parent, Vantage Cos.
2002: Former TCC brokers Joel Pustmueller and T.D. Briggs found Peloton Real Estate Partners.
2006: Brant Bernet and Martin Peck leave TCC to launch Rackhouse, a data center real estate firm later acquired by Lincoln Property Company.
2006: King White and his site selection team leave TCC to launch Site Selection Group, LLC
2006: TCC agrees to be acquired by CBRE in a transaction valued at $2.2 billion.
2007: When the deal closes in January, the company’s development arm becomes a subsidiary of CBRE, retaining both its TCC name and its Dallas headquarters. Brokerage operations are folded into CBRE.
From: "A Dallas Real Estate Family Tree," D Magazine (Jan 2014)
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Descendent firms owned/controlled by CBRE: Trammell Crow Company, High Street Residential
Descendent firms owned/controlled by Crow family members: Crow Holdings, Crow Holdings Industrial, Trammell Crow Residential, Billingsley Company
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