A cornerstone of Houston’s modern real estate scene has died.
Dan Moody Jr., co-founder of Moody Rambin, died Oct. 10 while on vacation in Woodstock, Vermont. He was 84. Moody’s death was announced in an obituary that said he passed peacefully of undisclosed causes. The Houston native spent more than five decades building and reshaping the city’s commercial landscape through his firm, which he founded in 1969 with partner Joseph Rambin III. Rambin died in 2024 at 79, the Houston Business Journal reported.
The two launched their eponymous company with a focus on zero lot-line residential townhomes before pivoting to the office sector, where they left a distinct architectural mark. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the firm delivered a string of signature business parks — including Post Oak Park, Town & Country Office Park, Dairy Ashford Place and Northwest Park — known for their airy atriums and energy-efficient designs, features that helped redefine the look and feel of Houston’s corporate corridors.
In the 1990s, Moody Rambin took on a more personal project: redeveloping Town & Country Village, a 400,000-square-foot retail center originally built by Moody’s father in the late 1960s. The property remains under Moody Rambin’s ownership and management, a rare feat in a city known for its churn-and-burn development cycles.
Moody’s son, Dan Moody III, joined the company during that same decade, helping expand its portfolio into industrial, retail and multifamily projects. Under the younger Moody’s leadership, the firm has grown to more than 100 employees and remains a mainstay in Houston’s development and management circles.
A graduate of Lamar High School and the University of Texas, Moody was remembered as a civic-minded developer with deep Houston roots. He was a founding member of Scenic Houston, a nonprofit focused on urban beautification, and contributed to the Methodist Hospital Foundation, the Brookwood Community and the Houston Parks Board.
— Eric Weilbacher
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