A lifelong Traverse City community volunteer with a fifty-year career in real estate is being honored with the 2022 Distinguished Service Award from Traverse Connect.

Bob Brick, broker and owner of RE/MAX Bayshore Properties, was selected by the Traverse Connect board to receive the Distinguished Service Award, according to a Traverse Connect release. The DSA is among the region’s oldest civic awards, presented annually since 1929. Brick will be honored at the Distinguished Service Award Luncheon on May 3 at Great Wolf Lodge.

Brick co-founded Re/Max Bayshore Properties in 1984. "His life’s work is rooted more in giving back, improving the community, and making a positive impact on the lives of others," according to the release. "Bob’s decades of volunteer service to nonprofit organizations and foundations include leadership roles on the Northwestern Michigan College Board of Trustees, NMC Foundation Board, Venture North Board, BrickWays Board of Directors, and Traverse Area Foundation Board. Brick’s love of the area and its natural resources led him to give significant time to the Traverse Area Foundation’s work to fund and remove industrial buildings from West Grand Traverse Bay and establish the Open Space."

Brick was co-chair of the Great Lakes Campus Capital Campaign to establish NMC’s Great Lakes Campus. He has coached young school and club athletes and established the Traverse Bay Blues Rugby Club in 1974. Bob resides on Old Mission Peninsula on East Grand Traverse Bay with his wife, Nancy. They have four children and nine grandchildren. Bob’s mother, Mary Jean Brick, received the Distinguished Service Award in 1991.