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Real Estate Leader Frank G.

Binswanger Jr. Dies at 94
BY HEATHER M. ROSS | STAFF WRITER
F rank G. Binswanger Jr., the for-
mer owner of an international
commercial real estate agency
founded in Philadelphia, died on July
6 at his beach house in Margate, New
Jersey. He was 94.

Binswanger, who was a member
of Reform Congregation Keneseth
Israel and later Congregation Rodeph
Shalom, grew up in Elkins Park. He
attended high school at Deerfield
Academy in Massachusetts and got
his bachelor’s degree in English at
Wesleyan University in Middletown,
Connecticut, according to his daugh-
ter, Jody Binswanger Snider.

He was best known for his lively
personality, strong work ethic and
devotion to his family — a work ethic
that he tried to teach to his children,
she said.

After serving in the Army for 3½
years, Binswanger returned home and
joined The Binswanger Cos. co-founded
by his father in 1931. He stayed with the
company for the rest of his career.

According to nephew David
Binswanger, Binswanger recognized,
“that corporations were making loca-
tion decisions based on strategic param-
eters rather than specific addresses.

He opened offices across the coun-
try employing a centralized structure
to make sure Binswanger viewed the
world as corporations did. Eventually,
that led to international expansion in
over 25 countries.”
Soon, Binswanger found himself
working with other large, international
Frank G. Binswanger Jr.
corporations, including Motorola,
Intel, Amgen, Kohler, Caterpillar
and IBM.

“He took a relatively local Penn-
sylvania real estate firm and turned
it into an international real estate
mega-company with offices around the
world,” Binswanger Snider said.

However, his business acumen wasn’t
his most notable feature, she said. It
was his devotion to family and friends
that set Binswanger apart.

“Family was the most import-
ant aspect of his life, and he was so
proud of his children and grandchil-
dren,” David Binswanger said in the
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Courtesy of Jody Binswanger Snider
eulogy he wrote.

In Philadelphia, Binswanger was
known as a strong supporter of the
Philadelphia community, serving on
the board of the Fox Chase Cancer
Center and as the Philadelphia
Chapter chair of the Young President’s
Organization. Binswanger met his wife, Suzanne,
in Philadelphia, and they married in
1950. She was with him when he died.

Binswanger Snider remembered her
parents’ relationship fondly.

“They really did have a fairy tale rela-
tionship to the very end,” she said. “I
don’t remember them fighting.”