NJPAC - January/February/March 2020
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‘Going for the top’<br />
Anne Evans Estabrook spent her career breaking<br />
new ground in commercial real estate<br />
Anne Evans Estabrook<br />
For Anne Evans Estabrook—mother<br />
of three, universally acknowledged<br />
dean of New Jersey’s commercial real<br />
estate market, owner and chairman of<br />
Elberon Development Group, the first<br />
female chairman of the New Jersey<br />
State Chamber of Commerce, and a<br />
longtime member of <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s Board<br />
of Directors—getting to the top of her<br />
profession was not easy.<br />
But when she talks about her long<br />
career, the unmistakable impression<br />
she leaves you with is that she<br />
absolutely relished the fight.<br />
Take, for example, the story of how<br />
she got her MBA.<br />
Her father, David O. Evans, started<br />
the family’s New Jersey construction<br />
firm in the 1920s, buying up land and<br />
building residential homes. From the<br />
time she was 16— “because that’s<br />
when you could get a work permit,”<br />
she remembers—she worked summers<br />
at Elberon’s offices, doing secretarial<br />
jobs. As the eldest child in the family,<br />
she always knew she would take<br />
over the family business. (“My father<br />
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