The Pinnacle Companies
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About the Pinnacle Companies:
Residential Development and Commercial Development

The Pinnacle Companies is committed to creating excellence in the workplace. Our sustained success is built on the creativity of individual ideas reinforced through communication, teamwork and quality focus. Our spirit of innovation drives us to accomplish great results and ensure customer satisfaction by providing them excellent quality services such as Real Estate Development, Commercial Development, Residential Construction, Main Street Projects, Commercial Real Estate Investment Properties, and Consulting.

We have fifteen years of commercial and residential development and construction experience with projects consisting of interstate commercial, master planned communities with a mix of commercial, light industrial and residential uses as well as private gated communities of custom homes. These projects include the development of communities consisting of over 4,000 residential home sites involving total community development with the delivery of home sites to national, regional, and local builders.

Company Profile

John C. Gray, Jr.   Mr. John C. Gray, Jr.

Mr. Gray is a graduate of Oxford College at Emory University, as well as Emory University, and the University of Florida where he majored in Political Science & Real Estate Law.

Mr. Gray started his career with Jaymont Properties, the developer of Major Office Buildings and Commercial properties around the World and locally owned the downtown Orlando buildings which include the Citrus Tower, the Signature Plaza Building, the 111 N. Orange Office Tower, as well as owning the "Jaymont Block" which is currently the location of a large residential-office-retail project in downtown Orlando called "Premier Plaza".  Mr. Gray was the top producer for Jaymont "Premier Plaza" Commercial Brokerage during his four year term with Jaymont.  (1984-1988)

Upon leaving Jaymont in 1988, Mr. Gray founded The Pinnacle Companies, a Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Company.  Out of "Pinnacle" grew over 15 separate companies in 19 years, which Mr. Gray is directly responsible for generating over $250 million in commercial brokerage sales specializing in Retail, Multi-Family, Commercial Land Development sales, as well as public/private stewardship to be left for generations to come to enjoy. 

With the over 15 companies, Mr. Gray has owned, developed and sold an additional  $150 million of properties comprised of residential communities, commercial retail, interchange commercial, industrial, and shopping center projects. 

In addition to these accomplishments, Mr. Gray consulted on a number of projects including "Old North State Club" in Charlotte, North Carolina, an exclusive town Fazio designed Private Golf Club, with Partners Dominion, Resources, Inc. and Marketing Group East‑West Partners, Inc. 

He has also facilitated the Sales of charitable gifting of several key Central Florida Properties that were placed in public ownership as stewards for their lands in Central Florida. The first was Gemini Springs Park, the Dr. Hugh West Memorial Park; as well as "Jessup's Landing Park", totaling several thousand acres.  These accomplishments involved working with Federal, State and Local governments, as well as, the Trust for Public Land, Florida Communities Trust and the St. Johns River Water Management District.   Mr. Gray has received numerous awards for development projects and charitable contributions to communities such as the prized Aurora Award for one of the finest residential communities in the Southeast United States, "River Oaks" a Marina Village which is Old Florida Vernacular Architecture and preservation of a Historic Riverboat Landing and Oak Hammock. 

Currently, Mr. Gray is developing "East Park Village" which consists of 335,000 square feet and over $110 million of high end Commercial Retail, Office Condominiums, Medical Condominiums, a Wellness Center located in the White Hot Lake Nona Medical Research Corridor in Southeast Orlando. 

Mr. Gray is also developing the 35 million dollar project of "The Estates of Sorrento Springs" a 200  lot High End Golf Course, which is part of The Sorrento Springs 678 home Community, which has been voted the Best Community in Lake County for the third consecutive year since 2005.

Mr. Gray began restoring the Family Compound and Estate of the Former Owners of Parker Brothers Games (Monopoly), on Man-O-War Cay in Abaco, Bahamas.  This endeavor requires working with the local District Council and the Bahamian government to restore the Harbour and Marina.  The 20 million dollar "Sea Glass Found" project is currently well underway and is in the final stages of development, which will allow for Yachts up to 140 feet in length and averaging 80-90 feet to dock safely in a protected "Hurricane Hole". With 20 acres and 5 private Beaches, this property is clearly the "Jewel of the Abacos".

Mr. Gray is a Licensed Real Estate Broker and maintains his Company offices, Pinnacle Realty Services, Inc, dba "The Pinnacle Companies", in Central Florida and has owned and operated under Pinnacle Investment Partners I & II, Pinnacle Shopping Centers, Inc., Pinnacle Development & Construction, Inc., Gray Family, LLC, K-T-No. 1, LLC, Eagle Dunes, LLC, Eagle Dunes II, LLC, Grand Pointe Investments, Ltd (a Bahamian Corporation), Gray Investments, LLC, Pinnacle Aviation Partners, Inc., Pinnacle Jets, LLC, and Pinnacle Jets II, LLC.