Founded by A. Page Sloss in 1920, and later led by A. Page Sloss, Jr., Sloss Real Estate Company remains a family business. Today, the Colonel's great-great granddaughter, Cathy Sloss Jones, serves as president and CEO of Sloss Real Estate, a collection of companies that continue to redefine the city's future through a variety of urban revitalization and construction projects. Sloss Real Estate is a company that believes the city of Birmingham itself serves as a touchstone for the entire metropolitan area, and works tirelessly to revitalize and enhance the city's unique commercial districts. "...when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it." - A Pattern Language