Our Team

John Luetkemeyer

Founder

John “Jack” Luetkemeyer joined Continental Realty Corporation full-time in 1979 after serving as Treasurer of the City of Baltimore and as a commercial banker with Equitable Trust Company. His relationship with J. Mark Schapiro had begun nearly a decade earlier and developed into a longstanding business partnership. At CRC, Jack established the company’s Commercial Division and CR Restaurant Division, expanding the business into new areas and contributing to the diversification of its investment and operating platform. Together with co-founder Mark, he broadened CRC’s activities across multifamily and commercial real estate and laid the foundation for the larger investment management and operating enterprise the company would become.

Jack brought an energetic, creative, and entrepreneurial approach to the partnership, with an instinct for identifying opportunities and pursuing new ideas. His style complemented Mark’s steady, disciplined and long-term perspective, creating a balance that became a defining strength of their decades-long partnership. Their trust in one another, and in the people they surrounded themselves with, was central to how they built the business and shaped CRC’s culture.

A Baltimore native, Jack has maintained a lifelong dedication to the city and its institutions through civic, educational, philanthropic, and financial commitments. He has served as a trustee of several local private schools, including Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, and is Director and President of the Rollins–Luetkemeyer Foundation. His longstanding devotion to Baltimore reflects a broader commitment to the communities where CRC invests and operates.

Jack is a graduate of Williams College and holds an M.B.A. from New York University.