Perseus Realty prez Bob Cohen, the man behind developments such as the recently sold 14W apartments and the future Storey Park in the DC area, tells us he's always loved architecture and "the dynamics of cities and what makes good urban planning." So after the Longmeadow, Mass. native graduated from GW and worked in office product sales for IBM for a few years, he knew he had to get involved directly in real estate. Bob joined Barnes Morris & Pardoe as an investment sales broker and never looked back. He became president of Barnes Morris in '82, running the company (even after its acquisition by Insignia in 1998) until '04.

Thats when Bob (above, at our Future of NoMa event in January, with Skanska's Rob Ward) caught the acquisition bug and formed Perseus. "We bought two or three existing buildings, and thought it would be interesting to own more," he says. (Now he knows what it's like when we buy shoes.) Starting Perseus also allowed him to become a developer, resulting in projects like Storey Park (with First Potomac), which "has all my attention," Bob points out. The key to an up-and-coming development is "all about amenities, he says. The husband of Rose, father of two, and grandfather of two loves to cycle and has taken cycling trips to France, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. Also an avid reader, Bob's digging into a biography of Arista Records founder Clive Davis.

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