The impressive salaries earned by partners of large international accounting firms provide them ample discretionary funds for investment purposes. Like many investors, Goodgread often considered local companies when making investment decisions. One local firm that caught Goodbread's attention durign tha late 1980s was Koger Properties, Inc., a real estate development company headquartered in Jacksonville. Koger's claim to fame was originating the concept of an office park. According to a Koger annual report, the company opened the nation's first office park in 1957 Jacksonvill. By the early 1990s, Koger operated nearly 40 office parks in two doZen metropolitan areas scattered across the southern United States.