JENKINTOWN Building Services has its origins in 1933, when Tom Carpenter, coincidentally a struggling post depression carpenter, took to the streets of small town Jenkintown, with squeegee and bucket. A struggling Holocaust surviving family, who had become chicken farmers in south Jersey upon their arrival to the US family, bought this small business, when Marty Tuzman was 10 years old, and Marty quickly took squeegee and bucket to the streets to fund his college education. The family shut down the business for a short time, and in 1980, Marty returned to grow the business to the leading provider of window cleaning and ancillary services in the Philadelphia region.
During his years away from the business, Marty completed college and traveled extensively and returned to Philadelphia, to build a family and re-engineer JENKINTOWN, to its prominence and a national reputation. He has been very involved in the real estate development and leadership communities in Philadelphia, actively engaged in many boards across the non profit sectors, in the arts, immigration services, support for homeless organizations, Holocaust education and workforce development, always bringing JENKINTOWN in support of these organizations’ missions.
Marty is very involved with his family of five kids and three grandchildren, continues to travel, speaks five languages, plays tennis regularly, and engages in the arts and various boards