Professional Profile: Gordon Hall - 1981

Name: Gordon Hall - 1981

Title: Senior Vice President

Company: R.M. Bradley & Co., Inc.

Location: Boston, MA

Birthplace: Boston, MA

Gordon Hall, III, a senior vice president of R.M. Bradley & Co., Inc. Boston, was recently elected a member of the select American Society of Real Estate Counselors, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. Membership is limited to individuals whose “broad professional background and experience qualify them to advice on all types of realty problems.” He holds the designation of Counselor of Real Estate. Born in Boston, August 5, 1930. Gordon and his family make their home in Nahant. He graduated from Amherst College in 1952. He was formerly sales manager of Parkwood Laminates in Wakefield at which he was employed in 1960, the year he joined R.M. Bradley. Involved with investment, industrial and commercial real estate from the start, he also was a RE consultant for the Boson Redevelopment Authority when that agency was involved with the disposition of properties in the Fanueil Hall Marketplace area. Hall now heads Bradley’s commercial division and has played an active role in major urban redevelopment and rehabilitation programs in many New England cities. In 1967, Gordon was the broker in a major sale of seven shopping centers in New England by the former Elm Farm Foods to an offshore investment conglomerate. Specializing as he does in commercial RE brokerage, he also transacted the sale of such well known Boston office facilities as 84 State St., 148 State St., 6 Beacon St., 11 Beacon St., 68 Devonshire St., 10 Post Office Square and 480 Boylston St. Among his other details was the sale of two shopping centers in Maine for a bank in that state. In 1972 Gordon handled the sale of Mt. Washington Hotel plus 8,700 acres in Bretton Woods, NH, scene of the famed International Monetary Conference during the Franklin Roosevelt administration He also worked for Thomas Watson, chairman of International Business Machines, when he developed a year round recreational village at Madonna Mountain in VT, a multi-million dollar project. His latest involvement is representing a family that owns major acreage at the southern end of the Alaska pipeline in Valdez, Alaska. Hall is a trustee of the Suffolk Franklin Savings Bank, a director of the Chewonki Foundation and a member of the executive committee of the Back Bay Assn. He is a director of the Next Move Theatre, a former trustee of the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities and a former governor of the Tennis & Racquet Club. The Hall family has a winter home in Jackson, NH, where Gordon and his sons Gordon and Dave, students at the University of New Hampshire, ski competitively. A third son, Max, is also a skier and a student at Amherst College. In his spare time, Gordon makes Federalist period furniture, which he displays at home and gives as gifts to his godchildren, friends and family. His election to ASREC was through invitation, according to its president George Coffin, III of Newport Beach, CA. He became ASREC’s 508^th member.