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Texas Association of Builders
September/October 2015
Lonestar Newsmakers
The Texas Association of Builders (TAB)
will posthumously honor Harold Pollman
as the sole 2015 inductee into the Texas
Housing Hall of Honor. The announcement
was made at the TAB Summer Board
Meeting on July 31, 2015. Mr. Pollman will
be formally inducted during the Excellence
in Leadership Dinner at the Westin Hotel
Downtown Austin on November 12, 2015.
Mr. Pollman was a remarkable leader whose
legacy is one of unparalleled service to the
housing industry, our state, our nation and
the world. Pollman’s companies, Northwood
Homes and Pollman Development, helped
establish Dallas as one of the nation’s most
desirable places to own a home.
As an attorney and a real estate finance
expert, he was a consistent and vocal
advocate for the housing industry for
57 years. He regularly advised federal
and state governmental committees on
regulatory standards on home financing
and construction standards. For over 10
years, Mr. Pollman was a visiting lecturer at
the Cox School of Business Graduate School
at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
He served as a delegate to President Gerald
Ford’s Economic Pre-Summit meeting in
Atlanta in 1975.
In 1992, he began years of service as a guest
lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design. Mr. Pollman’s influence extended
beyond Texas and the United States as he
participated in a U.S. – China cooperative
arrangement where he taught courses on
business management and free enterprise
principles to Chinese government officials
in Beijing and Shanghai. In 2004, Harvard
endowed a fellowship for postdoctoral
students called the Pollman Research
Fellowship in Real Estate Finance in his honor.
Additionally, Mr. Pollman’s philanthropic
efforts in his community reach beyond
cultural barriers to feed, educate and advance
the under privileged and elderly communities.
Harold Pollman Set to be
Inducted in Texas Housing Hall of Honor
