CBRE Americas history

In 1954, Anthony Patrizia joined the company, bringing the York air conditioning distributorship with him.

In 1969, Jack Dangermond and his wife, Laura, established the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) with $1,100 of their own savings.

ESC was founded by Don McCurdy in 1972.

Founded in 1976 by Russ Grimes and Carol Grimes, Environmental Systems Corporation has provided the best in HVAC services to commercial and industrial clients in the North Alabama and Southern Tennessee area.

In 1977 Don McCurdy's son, Craig McCurdy joined ESC.

By this time, its ARC/INFO product had been updated 14 times since its 1981 release.

The application's first academic license was granted to the University of Maryland in 1983.

In 1987, ESC became a “Value Added Partner” with Control Systems International (CSI) installing and servicing their product lines for over a decade and a half.

According to the company, PC ARC/INFO was a major milestone in that its release set the stage for future innovation at ESRI. Other noteworthy milestones included the establishment of ESRI's Instructor Certification Program for international distributors and its Business Partner Program in 1988.

The company concluded the decade with a bang, opening regional offices in Boston; Washington, D.C.; Denver; and Austin, Texas in 1989.

These included ArcCAD, as well as a new desktop mapping program called ArcView, which sold 10,000 copies in the first six months of 1992 alone.

In 1994, ESRI's sales reached $150 million, supported by the release of applications for the business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets.

In 1995, offices were opened in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, along with another international office in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

ESRI's sales reached approximately $170 million in 1996.

In July 2002, the company purchased a two-story, 40,000-square-foot office building in Broomfield, Colorado.

Late that year, ESRI's software was used to map and fight wildfire outbreaks in the western United States. It also was in 2003 that ESRI's technology was employed in southern Iraq and Kuwait, as part of a pilot project involving the United States Agency for International Development's Disaster Assistance Response Team.