FireStar grew from four people working in a single room to a staff of 55 on one and a half floors.
Ron and Harvey made it a point to let clients, and virtually everyone else, win their golf games.
FireStar’s “work hard, play hard” culture spawned lasting friendships and professional relationships.
FireStar Communications
Starting as a series of lunchtime conversations between Ron Cohn and his old friend and former competitor, the late Harvey Haddon, FireStar grew from a two-man shop to one of the largest marketing/creative firms in the national real estate business.
Additionally handling several financial and healthcare clients, FireStar was also the agency for cable television leader AT&T Broadband until it was acquired by Comcast and consolidated its advertising in Philadelphia.
FireStar was the sole or participating marketing force behind many of real estate’s “household names”, creating the campaigns for some 50 Crescent Heights projects from coast to coast and overseas; The Town of Fort Sheridan; Trump Chicago and Tel Aviv; Metropolitan Properties; Golub and Company; Mesa Development’s Heritage, Legacy and 360 in San Jose; Opus West and South communities in Minneapolis, Denver and Pensacola; Fordham and its introduction of “The Spire”; Urban West’s One Rincon Hill in San Francisco, Centex and Kimball Hill suburban and urban communities; The Ritz Carlton Residences in Chicago and Atlanta; all the buildings of Enterprise, Fogelson Properties’ and Forest City’s Museum Park; Lincoln Park 2520 as well as office buildings for Hines, Paul Beitler, and John Buck.
