The Phildelphia Inquirer was out Wednesday with a look at what Robert Toll, founder of the home building company that bears his name, is up to these days.
Every other Monday, Robert “Bob” I. Toll visits the Horsham headquarters of the eponymous home-building company he started with his brother, Bruce, 52 years ago, and takes inventory.
No matter that the 78-year-old stepped down as executive chairman last year and makes his home primarily in Miami Beach. Toll, chairman emeritus, religiously reviews the prior week’s sales of Toll Bros. communities — 300-plus at the moment — and, based on what he hears, offers advice on how to keep numbers robust. When he’s not there in person, he calls in.
“I don’t miss any deal,” he said one autumn Monday from his spacious office, the walls covered with a lifetime of family photos. “It starts with the same basics as it started with in ’67.”
Since that first project in Caln Township, Bob Toll in particular has helped reimagine the housing market — and, in the process, made an indelible impact on the industry and the very landscape of the region and beyond with the company’s signature luxury homes.
