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LEADERSHIP
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Ford Gurall

Managing Principal & CEO

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Ford is a real estate development and construction professional with specialized industry experience in laboratory environments, hospitality, mixed-use urban, and commercial office development. Ford has managed design, permitting, construction, budgets, debt service, and operations turnover for development work valued in excess of $750M. As the Founder and Managing Principal of GRE, Ford is primarily responsible for owner’s representation that encompasses project design, planning, construction cost analysis, contract negotiation, development, and re-positioning of real estate assets.


Ford has been retained by multiple Fortune 500 companies as a third-party executive to assemble build-to-suit developments, mitigate underperforming project teams, and help outsource corporate real estate activities. Additionally, Ford, along with the entire GRE team, is responsible for financial oversight and underwriting that includes construction interest forecasting, LTV analysis, development budget assembly, investment models, and construction cost comparisons.


Ford is an avid skier who along with his wife Abby hope to one day share some of his favorite extreme destinations with this two sons Jack and Henry. Off the slopes Ford he can be found demoing, hammering, nailing, hanging, and doing pretty much everything besides painting on his home renovation projects.

 

Experience Highlights:
 

  • Quest Diagnostics, Clifton, NJ - 275,000sf

  • Quest Diagnostics, Marlborough, MA - 200,000sf

  • Fresenius, Rockleigh NJ - 230,000sf

  • Virtus Investment Partners, Hartford, CT - 60,000sf

  • CLACOR, Hartford, CT - 50,000sf

  • Quest Diagnostics, Chantilly, VA - 248,000sf

  • Alexion Pharmaceuticals, New Haven, CT - 500,000sf

  • Quest Diagnostics, Tampa, FL - 50,000sf

  • Renaissance by Marriott, Foxborough MA - 140,000sf

  • Hilton Hampton Inn, Yonkers, NY - 120,000sf

  • Residence Inn by Marriott, Portsmouth, NH - 120,000sf

  • Marriott Courtyard, Keene, NH - 65,000sf

  • Kent Hospital Outpatient Facility - 60,000sf

  • Wayside Carriage House Inn, Sudbury, MA - 35,000sf

  • John W. McCormack Building, Boston, MA - 750,000sf

  • Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Residences, Boston, MA - 500,000sf

  • Liberty Hotel, Boston, MA - 400,000sf


Honors + Awards:

  • Hartford Business Journal - 40 Under 40  - Class of 2020

  • New Jersey Alliance for Action, 2020 Leading Infrastructure Project 
    Quest Diagnostics, Clifton, NJ

 

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