Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw is Managing Partner of Columbus Realty Partners, Ltd., which traces its roots back to 1987 when he created his first company to pursue the creation of walkable, live, work, play neighborhoods. Underlying this idea was a fundamental optimism about cities, their urban cores, and long term viability. At the time, such optimism was not widely shared, so the difficulty of attracting private capital to pursue this strategy led Mr. Shaw to take the idea to Wall Street. In 1993, he took his company public as Columbus Realty Trust, a REIT traded on the NYSE (symbol “CLB”).