Great Eastern Management Company

Established in 1972, Charlottesville, Virginia based Great Eastern Management Company develops, constructs and manages income-producing real estate properties and engages in other business ventures and investments.  In addition to its past and ongoing involvement in developing and constructing numerous real estate properties in Central Virginia, Great Eastern currently manages office buildings, shopping centers and multi-family residential properties in Charlottesville, Harrisonburg and Lynchburg, Virginia. 

A professionally managed firm, Great Eastern employs about 40 full time equivalent persons, plus additional seasonal personnel and a large number of subcontractors.  An experienced administrative and property management staff is complemented by skilled maintenance and construction crews.  The construction department also includes knowledgeable carpentry and electrical trade superintendents. 

In the Charlottesville area, Great Eastern and its affiliated business entities have developed the STONEHENGE, Bennington Woods, Georgetown Court and GRASSMERE Farm residential communities, developed and constructed a General Electric facility in the Northside Industrial Park, a Division of Motor Vehicles Branch Office, a terminal expansion for the Charlottesville/Albemarle Airport, the 2400 Old Ivy Road Office Building,  the Court Square Office Building, the Pantops and Seminole Square Shopping Centers, and the Module 21, Westgate, Barclay Place and Solomon Court Apartments.  Great Eastern also renovated the Tarleton Square Building (apartments and offices) and joint ventured with the Charlotte, N.C. firm of David R. Krug and Associates, Inc. to successfully convert the Charlottesville Towers Apartments to a condominium.  

Great Eastern also developed and constructed the Park Apartments in Harrisonburg and has been involved in many successful renovation efforts with moderate income apartments, including the Colony Hilton Apartments in Newport News and several properties formerly owned by United Dominion Realty Trust (NYSE), a publicly traded equity real estate investment trust headquartered in Richmond.  In addition, Great Eastern renovated the Fort Hill Village Shopping Center in Lynchburg.  The company recently completed the development of the Rio East Commercial Area and is currently actively working on development and construction of the Blue Ridge Shopping Center and the 269 acre North Pointe mixed-use community, both in Albemarle County.  North Pointe is located directly across from the University of Virginia's North Fork Research Park, a project which includes 3,000,000 square feet of office and research space, and near the new and expanding National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC).