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Steve Schuck’s career resume reads more like an adventure,
a mission to succeed and to lead. It began with an economics degree
from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Following
graduation, he became a math teacher and head football coach at
Manlius, prep school for West Point. After two years in New York
City, he and his wife, Joyce, a published author, headed west.
They have three children, six granddaughters and two grandsons.
Bill is president and CEO of The Schuck Corporation, Tom is a
public school teacher in Houston, and Ann is a wildlife rehabilitator
based in Colorado Springs.
The business Steve founded and Bill now directs is wholly owned
by the Schuck family. In almost 40 years since its beginnings,
the company has grown from a small real estate brokerage enterprise
to a major developer of commercial, residential, industrial and
mixed-use projects.
The Schucks have, or had, more than 50 joint ventures and partnerships,
creating and developing more than 5,000 residential home sites
and over 2,000 acres of commercial projects in the Denver, Colorado
Springs, Portland, and Phoenix markets, valued in the billions
of dollars.
Steve Schuck’s leadership has also extended to many community
and civic challenges, including Board positions with Children
First America, Step 13, the Bighorn Center, the Colorado Alliance
for Reform in Education, Independence Institute (past Chairman),
CACI, Kids Voting, Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, Pikes
Peak Y-USO, Junior Achievement, Boy Scouts, Western National Bank,
Penrose Hospital, National Jewish Hospital, and the UCCS and CU
Foundations.
As a founder or co-founder of the State and the Colorado Springs
private economic development programs, the Greater Denver Corporation,
the Colorado Leadership Forum, and the Republican Leadership Program,
his entrepreneurial accomplishments reach far beyond business.
Presently his focus is on improving public policy, both in Colorado
and nationally, so that all parents, regardless of their circumstances,
are empowered to choose the education they think is best for their
children. In early 2003, his efforts contributed to the passage
of Colorado’s HB 1160, the country’s newest and strongest
school choice legislation. And he and Joyce have backed-up their
commitment to education by creating and funding Parents Challenge,
which currently provides scholarships and grants to 250 disadvantaged
kids in both public and private schools.
He has been named “Citizen of the Year” by the Colorado
Springs Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Association of Homebuilders,
the Urban League, the Board of Realtors, the El Paso County Republican
Party, and has received a medal of merit from the University of
Colorado Board of Regents, Step 13’s first award of leadership,
the David S. D’Evelyn Award for Inspired Leadership from
the Independence Institute, the YMCA’s Woodgate Award and
the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise’s Achievement
Against the Odds “Pharoh” Award, and was chairperson,
with Joyce, of the Easter Seals Telethon and the March of Dimes
Mothers March. Most recently, Steve received the Ellis Island
Medal of Honor Award and was named Honorary Dean of Real Estate
by the Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate, Daniels College
of Business, University of Denver.
Steve Schuck believes that “Everyone will benefit when
business entrepreneurs bring their years of real world experience
and talent, developed in the competitive marketplace, to society’s
challenges.”
So he took his thoughts on improving government even a step further.
He ran for the Republican nomination for Governor of Colorado
in 1986, hoping to apply his community and business leadership
to the challenges facing his state. He lost by fewer than 3,000
votes, but made an important contribution to the political landscape.
As a candidate, he was endorsed by the Denver Post, which praised
his “restless energy, driving intelligence, infectious humor
and contagious need to do something.”
Steve continues to apply most of his time, energy and resources
to public policy causes in which he believes, while Bill focuses
on developing projects that proudly bear the Schuck family name.
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