Al “Corky” Angelo Jr., co-owner of the Vancouver property administration firm based by his father and namesake, died Saturday. He was 76.
“He was always ahead of his time. He had an entrepreneurial spirit,” mentioned Angelo Jr.’s eldest son, Al Angelo III.
Corky Angelo, his brothers Craig and Gary Angelo, together with Al Angelo III, took over the household enterprise after Albert C. Angelo Sr. died in 2007.
Angelo Sr. based Al Angelo Development Co. in 1944 to construct homes for Kaiser Shipyard employees throughout World Conflict II. The corporate’s first residence advanced, The Highlands, nonetheless stands within the Heights neighborhood. In 1962, Vancouver residents elected Angelo Sr. as mayor.
The Al Angelo Co., considered one of Vancouver’s largest privately held actual property firms, has for 4 generations formed a lot of town’s skyline. Its latest constructing, the Angelo Tower, developed throughout the pandemic, was capable of outmaneuver a lot of COVID-19’s hurt to the trade, together with value will increase and work delays.
The corporate has amassed or constructed greater than 1 million sq. toes of business workplace and retail house in Clark County, and it has actual property holdings in 4 states, together with Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Arizona.
Along with working within the household enterprise, Corky Angelo served on the Vancouver Planning Fee, in addition to different boards by way of the years. He was additionally one of many house owners of the Pacific Northwest Broadcasting Corp., which bought KMUZ FM in 1995 for $3.5 million. He was a boss for Right this moment’s Financial institution within the late ’90s. He graduated from Washington State College.
In 2007, Corky Angelo and his spouse, Linda, donated $1 million to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Heart, the place a plaque designates the Angelo Foyer.
Corky Angelo spent his summers at his dwelling in Pronghorn, a golf growth close to Bend, Ore., and his winters at his Palm Desert, Calif., dwelling. He informed The New York Occasions in 2006 that he tried to golf about 4 occasions every week.
Angelo III mentioned Corky bought the Bend dwelling about 10 years in the past, and for the previous 5 years, has spent his time primarily residing in California.
He was an enormous Yankees fan, Angelo III mentioned. Considered one of Angelo III’s final fond recollections of his father was when he, his son Albert Angelo IV and Angelo III’s brother Sheldon Angelo took Corky to the primary recreation of the Dodgers versus Yankees World Sequence final 12 months.
“Even though the Yankees lost, I’d like to think that Corky still won,” Angelo III mentioned. “To make it happen in that short of time was a miracle.”
Every week in the past, Angelo III and his household made the trouble to carry Corky again to his hometown of Vancouver.
“His last wish was to die in his hometown, and so the team effort made that happen,” Angelo III mentioned. “He died peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by his two sons.”
He’s survived by his spouse, Linda Angelo, sons Angelo III and Sheldon Angelo, and 5 grandchildren.
“They say it takes a village. He was the village,” Angelo III mentioned. “We all kind of revolved around him.”
