For more than a quarter century, Integral has earned a solid reputation for bringing innovative community, housing and infrastructure solutions to strengthen and revitalize urban communities.

History and Timeline


"Our desire is to be a company that leaves its footprint of excellence as evidence of our positive impact in communities. We continue to set the stage for better performance in the areas of urban revitalization, infill development, smart growth and public private partnerships."

EGBERT L.J. PERRY
Chairman and CEO, Integral




Full Timeline

  • Integral is founded by Egbert L. J. Perry and Clyde E. Gumbs to produce healthy, nurturing and sustainable urban communities, with a focus on both physical development and the quality of life infrastructure

  • Integral co-develops Southside Station, a mixed-use residential/retail commercial real estate project that triggers the revitalization of Birmingham’s Center City South
  • An Integral-led partnership creates:

    • The legal, regulatory and financial model that makes it possible to create mixed income affordable and work force housing communities

    • Centennial Place, the nation’s first holistic community revitalization project, integrating mixed income rental housing and home ownership, an early childhood development center, a K-12 STEAM public school, a family recreation, health & wellness YMCA and family support services


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  • Integral launches the Ashley brand, as its mixed-income, multi-family rental product

  • Integral creates its property management subsidiary

  • Integral creates its first Assisted Living Project, located in an affluent African-American community in southwest Atlanta

  • Integral commences a public-private, urban revitalization partnership project in Philadelphia

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  • Integral launches the Veranda brand, as its Affordable Independent Senior Living product

  • Integral initiates real estate equity fund management services

  • Integral expands its community development activities into Albany, Columbus and Savannah, GA
  • Integral launches the Oasis brand, as its Affordable Assisted Senior Living product

  • Integral expands operations into Sacramento and San Francisco, California; Dallas, TX; and Indianapolis, IN

  • Integral launches Infrastructure Development and Program Management affiliate to implement public-private solutions to many contemporary infrastructure challenges and to manage large-scale capital programs
  • Integral launches the EVIVA brand, as its luxury residential rental product

  • After three years of due diligence, an Integral-led team acquires the 165-acre General Motors plant in Doraville, GA, and begins the development of Assembly as a major mixed-use, transit-oriented, economic development project designed to create “a city within a city”

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  • Integral’s evolution of taking a concept developed on the streets of Manhattan, to an executed strategy that is now heralded as a master planned community model for the nation, has afforded us the ability to be innovators in the arenas of community development, commercial real estate and property management. We look forward to continuing our momentum for generations of clients and residents to come