Career

Guy's first job out of college was walking steel 45 stories above ground as a field engineer for Turner Construction in Manhattan. Not exactly thrilled with the high altitude, Guy managed to become one of the few people to embed their fingerprints in a steel I-beam. Tired of risking his life on domestic soil, he was drafted by the Army and went to Korea just after the war, working for the Corps of Army Engineers. When he returned home, he worked with his father, S. Brooks Barron, a builder/developer who concentrated on building single family homes and apartments.

Guy then joined his father-in-law, Bert Smokler, a leader in the local building industry. After a NYSE corporation bought out Smokler, it did not take Guy long to realize that working in the constraints of that kind of corporation was not his idea of fun, and he started his own company, the Guy Barron Development Corporation. His one-man operation has developed many projects across three counties in Southeastern Michigan.