Bob Klairmont
Vice President

Robert (Bob) Klairmont joined Imperial Realty Company in 1980 as its Vice President. Bob is responsible for overseeing the company’s brokerage department, tenant representation department, management of 2+ million square feet of retail, industrial and self storage facilities, and renovationconstruction management. 

Imperial Realty specializes in taking under-performing commercial properties and upgrading or redeveloping them. A good example of this strategy is the The W.F. Hall Printing Company complex in the BelmontDiverseyCicero area of Chicago. Under Bob’s direction, Imperial Realty purchased this vast property, demolishing it to make way for Hall Plaza, a 250,000 square foot shopping center, anchored by Menard’s and other retail businesses, including McDonald’s. Further north in this complex, Imperial built the state-of-the-art W.F. Hall’s Self-Storage Facility. The remaining 145,000 square feet of Hall Printing Company was converted into high ceiling, efficient industrial space. Finally on the Belmont Avenue side, a 9,000 square foot retail center servicing the auto care industry was built.

Immediately after graduating from college, Bob joined JB Enterprises, a firm pioneering in Tenant Representation. Some of their clients included Cub Foods, Perry Drug & Auto, and Bob Evans Farms Restaurants. In addition to tenant representation, JB Enterprises was instrumental in obtaining site acquisitions for large clients, one including several acres of land acquired by Mel Simon in Rockford, IL, eventually being development Simon Property Group. 

Bob graduated from the University of Minnesota with Bachelors degrees in Business, Economics and Sociology. Bob is married and has two children. In Bob’s free time he enjoys relaxing and racing in his sailboat on Lake Michigan and spending time with his family.