Walking through the streets of downtown Adelaide, looking up, you can always see huge signboards with "Polites" printed on them, whether it's small shops, office buildings or coffee shops, and Polites's big signs are always so conspicuous. What's the Polites? Why are Polites signboards hanging on all the buildings in downtown Adelaide?
According to Research editor, Polites is a popular name in Adelaide. The Polites family is one of Adelaide's most successful real estate families. The family's founder, Adelaide's property tycoon Con Polites's self-made business story, seems more intriguing.
Con Polites was born in 1919 to an ordinary peasant family in Port Pirie, where, Con Polites left school at the age of 16 and, Con Polites came to Adelaide at the age of 19. At that time, he should never have imagined that he would achieve such a great achievement in this city in the future.
After arriving in Adelaide, Con Polites worked many jobs, working first in Woolworths and then in taxi and wedding car rental. Then, Con Polites showed an extraordinary gift for doing business, buying his first real estate property in 1959, and then everything was like a Hollywood movie. With his unique vision and talent, Polites became Adelaide's real estate tycoon step by step. In addition, he was very public-spirited, and he had expressed the hope that future generations would remember that he was a good man.
Con Polites has said that the Polites brand on his property is not intended to show his wealth and status, but to prove that the Greek immigrants he represents have become part of Australia's multiculturalism, as descendants of immigrants. He took great pride in his achievements.
Con Polites died in 2001 at the age of 82, and the real estate tycoon once summed up life: "Life is not money, it is so simple, such as blooming and falling."