![]() ![]() ![]() He retired in 1989 as vice president of engineering. designing equipment for the logging, offshore oil and fish processing industries. He spent his entire career with Smith-Berger Corp. Bob received his mechanical engineering degree from West Virginia University in 1950 and he and Ardath settled in Seattle. Two years later, in June 1947, they were married. A striking brunette, Ardath Benge, met him at the pier where the Laffey was docked and offered to show him the city. At the Battle for Okinawa, the Laffey survived a brutal kamikaze attack and was returned to Seattle, Wash., for repairs. Navy in June 1943 and served as a gunner’s mate aboard the USS Laffey during the D-Day campaign and later in the Pacific. He graduated from Mannington High School in 1942. Bob was born April 10, 1924, in Shirley to Ivan and Mary Karr and grew up near Mannington with his older sister, Kathleen “Kitty,” and younger sister, Virginia “Corky.” Bob, in his youth, loved to hunt, trap and fish. Throughout her career in the industry, Karr has completed more than 500 retail transactions with the successful leasing assignments of the commercial components of The John Hancock Center, Citigroup Center/Metra Station, Wills Tower, One Magnificent Mile at 980 North Michigan Avenue, the Gage Building on Michigan Avenue, Block 37 and Deerfield Village Centre, the mixed-use downtown revitalization of an upscale Chicago suburb.Robert Irving Karr, 87, passed away Thursday (June 9, 2011) at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash. Her institutional client list includes the General Electric Pension Fund, Silverpeak Real Estate Partners, Waterton Assoc./CalSTRS, Bank of America, Kennedy Associates and Apollo Real Estate Advisors. She brings with her a tenant client base that includes Habit Burger Grill/Tremendous Brands, Pearle Vision, Natuzzi, Great Play, Peloton Cycle, Francesca Restaurant Group, Duchamp London, Sandbox Industries, Gage Restaurant Group and See Optical. Karr’s completed transactions total nearly one million square feet in high-profile urban retail developments such as River East Center, Piper’s Alley, Old Town Square, Clybourn Square Lakewood Commons and a 100,000-square-foot AMC Theatres facility. She specializes in site selection for the development and implementation of retail tenant expansion strategies, representing developers and owners of high-density, mixed-use properties in downtown Chicago and suburban central business districts. Leslie Karr joined SVN Chicago Commercial as a vice president with over 20 years of retail real estate experience. ![]()
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