DALLAS REAL ESTATE HALL OF FAME

Had an interview this morning with Robert Grunnah, Darrell Hurmis, and Chris Teesdale, the three founders of the Dallas Real Estate Hall of Fame, now in its 20th year. They’re going to put out a book of the honorees this fall and say they want to capture the stories and characters that shaped (and still shape) Dallas today. Like John Stemmons, for instance, who always wore a bow tie and would send bottles of his “special hooch”, “Stemmonsky Distillers Imported Trinity Vodka”, to his friends and colleagues. Or Irv Deal, who had his female brokers wear hot pants in the 70s (nice one). Or the “Godfathers of real estate”, Henry S. Miller and Trammell Crow. These guys have the inside story on all the biggest names in commercial real estate and they’re having a blast putting together these (sometimes) tall tales. Quote I loved from Robert: “DFW developers, in the real estate community, are known as the most honest, straightforward communities in the country.”