Gordon Grubb comes from a long line of visionaries.
Over a century ago, in Salisbury, his great-grandfather, Henry Clay Grubb, built what was then North Carolina's first and tallest
steel-beamed office building.
In 1963, his father, Robert L. Grubb, Jr., formed Grubb Properties. At first a
developer of single-family affordable housing, the company grew to a fully- integrated real estate company with capabilities for
the development, construction, management, marketing and sales of residential, commercial and retail properties.
Following his father's death, Gordon Grubb led Grubb Properties and continued the company's expansion. *Under his leadership,
the company earned recognition as The North Carolina Family Business of the Year award from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
and the North Carolina Family Business Forum.
In 2002, Gordon Grubb had his own vision. He left the family firm to found Grubb Ventures, based on the idea that Raleigh, one of
America's most dynamic cities with explosive growth, was an area of great potential for infill redevelopment, something overlooked
by most companies. While downtown boomed and commuter-distance areas were constantly under both residential and commercial development,
there was a void. A void Grubb Ventures would fill.
Grubb Ventures would focus its activities on the area known as "Inside-the-Beltline", with unique approaches to residential,
commercial and infill redevelopment.
Today, Grubb Ventures is recognized as innovative, forward-thinking and community-conscious. As Gordon Grubb puts it,
"It's not just the building, not just the location. It's the idea, the vision."
Traditionally known as an area spanning from downtown Raleigh over to Hillsborough Street and north to the I-440 Beltline at the Crabtree Valley area