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Editorial: Good Friend Gone
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Business New Haven
10/27/2003
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New Haven lost an important asset and advocate earlier this month, and Business New Haven lost a good friend.
Carl Traub, 62, president of the New Haven real estate firm Traub & Co., died at his home in Essex on October 20 (see page 32). He was 62. Born in Roslyn, N.Y., Carl had a distinguished 40-year career as a commercial real estate executive. In 1970 he joined C.A. White, the New Haven real estate and property-management firm. He became a vice president and head of its commercial real estate activities, and joined with the firm's principals in purchasing the landmark Gold Building on Church Street in downtown New Haven in 1981.
Eventually C.A. White sold its brokerage business to Cushman & Wakefield, and Carl moved his base of operations to Hartford.
He returned to New Haven full-time in 1998, when he started his own firm and located it downtown. Carl became a tireless advocate for New Haven and helped to re-energize downtown real estate professionals with monthly meetings with selected speakers.
His firm began a comprehensive local inventory and report of properties for the Central Business District.
Carl engaged leaders and opinion-makers from the mayor to the chamber of commerce to the press, and was looked to by all as a source of energy, inspiration and experience with regard to an array of downtown development issues.
Over the years Carl played a significant role in numerous development projects throughout New Haven. This spring he helped to launch developer David Beckerman's One Audubon building - the first new New Haven office tower in more than a decade, This summer he attracted Bowtie Properties to an important redevelopment of the old United Illuminating headquarters on Temple Street.
For us, Carl was more than a source of information; he was a friend, and we will miss him.
Memorial contributions may be made to the CJD Foundation, P.O. Box 5312, Akron, Ohio 44334, of the Carl Traub Education Fund for Real Estate Professionals, c/o the New Haven Savings Bank Trust Department, 195 Church Street, New Haven 06510.
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