Alfonso Gallo Norristown

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BUSINESS STRATEGY

What is your business strategy?

We're very much focused on Leasing a home is difficult and complicated task but we are here to help. Whether opening a commercial location or relocating to one of our facilities, we make it as easy as possible to make things happen. At Gallo Brothers, we're here to help streamline the process.

What's going to change at your company?

We're starting on another new construction, in addition to the projects we already have. The new projects are the independent senior housing centrally.

MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY

Best way to keep a competitive edge?

We are designing our buildings to appeal to the millenials, the fastest-growing segment of the workforce. They want a collaborative workplace. They also want to be in an urban environment that's amenity-rich, with a diversity of housing. They want walkable, vibrant, transit-served communities. An increasing number prefer to bike rather than drive, so we build bicycle storage with adjacent shower rooms in all of our buildings.

Why do people like working for you?

The company is really a meritocracy. It's all about the talent and the teamwork. Nothing is possible without that team.

JUDGMENT CALLS

What do you like best about your job?

I love the buildings we've bought. In many cases, we're taking over older buildings and making them world-class. That's one form of sustainability: recycling older buildings.

What do you like least about your job?

Spending time in airplanes and airports. They've lost track of what it is to provide good service to the consumer.

What’s your first choice of a new career?

I'd be a professional cyclist (laughs). It really connects you with nature.

PREDELICTIONS

What’s most influential book?

“Man's Search for Meaning," by Viktor Frank. It's a biography of, experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during a survivor of World War II POW camps.

What are favorite causes?

Catholic war veterans, Faith Tebemacle house of prayer, Saint John the Baptist church, Fraternal Order of Police lodge #31 Norristown.

What’s favorite restaurant?

My Kitchen.

Favorite music?

“I've Got You under My Skin," by Frank Sinatra. Also, “Samba Pa Ti" by Carlos Santana. All of my racing boats, the big ones and the small ones, are named Samba.