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Anthony Gleason II
President and Co-founder of the Gleason Johndrow Companies
You might call it the ‘snowball effect.’ That’s one poetic way to describe what has happened since Anthony Gleason started his own landscaping business when he was 16, and especially since he was honored as a member of the Forty Under 40 Class of 2010.
Things have... well, snowballed. And in all kinds of ways.
England University, and many others, and has extended its geographic reach well beyond West- ern Mass.
“We’re servicing the entire state of Massa- chusetts — we’ll go out to Worcester and Boston — and go south into Hartford,” he told Business- West. “We just keep trying to grow wherever we can with the kind of work that makes sense.”
“We’re servicing the entire state of Massachusetts — we’ll go out to Worcester and Boston — and go south into Hartford. We just keep trying to grow wherever we can with the kind of work that makes sense.”
Meanwhile, the real estate port- folios of the many companies he’s now involved with continue to grow. The combined portfolio now boasts properties valued at more than $25 million, he said, and it includes office, industrial, self-storage, and other properties.
And Gleason’s involvement in the community — both on a personal and company-wide scale — contin- ues to snowball as well, especially in
The landscaping company he started with a $1,500 pickup truck and a lawnmower has grown into one of the largest snow-removal contractors in the country — the 32nd largest to be exact,
at least according to the latest rankings in Snow Magazine, with more than $10 million in rev- enues in 2021. It now boasts a number of large contracts including the city of Springfield (250 locations), UMass Amherst and its 157 parking lots of various shapes and sizes, Western New
Springfield. Indeed, both Gleason personally and Gleason Johndrow Landscaping have become huge supporters of the Spirit of Springfield, as both a sponsor and with in-kind donations, as we’ll see, but his work to give back extends well beyond the SOS to several other causes and organizations.
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40 Under Forty
2022 Alumni Achievement Award Finalists
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40 Under Forty Class of 2012 Class of 2013
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