Our story
Four generations of building
Diamond Brothers, Inc. is a fourth-generation family-owned firm. The family's building and development roots date to 1909; the company itself was established in Florida in 1981.
Timeline
Documented milestones
A short record, limited to what the family and the firm have built. Dates are given only where they are documented.
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1909
The family begins building
The Diamond family's roots in building and development date to 1909 — the start of a tradition that continues, unbroken, through four generations.
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BostonTwentieth century
Gerald Diamond and the Sears Crescent
Our father, Gerald Diamond, purchased, redesigned, developed, built, owned and operated the Sears Crescent building in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, at a time when the city's core was in need of social and economic renewal.
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1981
Diamond Brothers, Inc. is established
The company is founded and begins building throughout the state of Florida — custom homes, country club community residences, and the planned developments that follow.
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1990sLate 1990s
To the water
Diamond Brothers follows its instinct to move to the water, developing two luxury oceanfront estate enclaves in Delray Beach. On one site the firm purchases an oceanfront hotel, designs the site, obtains entitlements, and builds and delivers seven oceanfront homes.
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BocaBoca Raton
Library Commons
With a partner, the firm acquires and develops Library Commons, one of Boca Raton's premier single- and multi-family urban developments, in the heart of the city.
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PalatkaNortheast Florida
The St. Johns River Education Center
Chosen by the City of Palatka, Diamond Brothers designs, develops and builds the River Center — a museum and town center funded through a joint venture between the City and Georgia-Pacific, and a cornerstone of the historic downtown's revitalization.
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2014
Four historic buildings return to use
Diamond acquires four historically significant abandoned buildings in downtown Palatka, built between 1885 and 1916, and converts them into a mixed-use project with shops, offices and college student housing.
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Today
Still building
Recent work includes ocean-front single-family homes, custom residences, renovation projects, student housing and mixed-use construction — the fourth generation continuing what the first began.
The record
What the family has built
These figures describe the combined work of Diamond Brothers, Inc. and the family's related firms across four generations.
- 1,000,000+Square feet of housing built, collectively
- ~500Luxury and higher-end single-family homes, from 2,200 to 24,000 square feet
- ThousandsOf acres of land developed — urban renewal, mixed use, oceanfront, Intracoastal, country club, infill and planned developments
Our measure
"The true testimony of a company's strength is its accomplishments. Ours is an industry with tangible results — we can still visit the buildings our family has constructed since the turn of the twentieth century."
Build the next chapter with us
Whether it is a home on the water or a block in a downtown, we would like to hear about it.