Ronald Bradshaw

Biographie : Ronald E. Bradshaw graduated from Harding High School in 1962 and continued his education at The University of Oklahoma where he graduated in 1966 with a Bachelors Degree in Business and Finance. He and his wife Martha who graduated from Harding in 1964 were married in 1968 and have spent their lives together in Oklahoma City. They have two children, Jason and Libby, and four grandchildren. After a business career in banking, real estate development and manufacturing Ron and his son Jason who had been an investment banker with JP Morgan Chase started a real estate development and investment company. They form Colony Partners Inc in August 2001. They acquired and operated a 211,000 square foot portfolio of office buildings. They then acquired the former 17-acre Fred Jones Estate adjacent to the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club and developed it into 31 single family luxury residential lots now known as Grand Circle. Colony became involved in downtown development by acquiring the former Kerr-McGee surface parking lots totaling four city blocks north of Bricktown and east of E.K. Gaylord Blvd. and have developed or co-developed The Brownstones at Maywood Park, 2nd Street Lofts, and The Maywood Apartments Phase 1 and Phase 2. Their latest project is the Page-Woodson School property and the surrounding ten acres. Colony Partners Inc and its partners acquired the Page-Woodson School at 6th and High Street on December 5, 2012 from the Oklahoma City Public School System. The building contains 90,000 sq. ft. and sits on 3 acres. It is listed on the State and National Historical Register and is two blocks south of the Oklahoma Health Science Center. It was built in1911 and was home to Douglas High School from 1934 to 1954. It stood vacant for almost 25 years. It has undergone a $28 million renovation into 60 affordable apartment units and an additional 68 affordable new units were built adjacent to the school building.