Our History
1992
Presto Window Cleaning started as a two-man operation serving the communities of Atlanta, Georgia, performing retail and residential window cleaning services.
1998
Judah Clark, having a home repair business for 3 years, acquired the Presto name and began to broaden the company's horizon into a number of high-rise building services.
1999
Presto landed its first high-rise window cleaning project and started to concentrate its efforts on this specialized service. Presto started to phase out retail window cleaning services.
2000
Presto was awarded its first glass restoration and precast cleaning project for The Dave Building, an 8-story building, in Atlanta. Presto started to phase out residential services in order to focus on commercial properties.
2001
Presto landed its first large waterproofing project and was given the opportunity to completely restore all the glass at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Presto began creating products for high-rise building restoration.
2002
Presto was awarded the Philips Arena window cleaning contract, the entire Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) campus and the Georgia Power building.
2003
The name Presto Window Cleaning, Inc. was changed to Presto Property Services, Inc. to reflect its complete scope of service offerings. Also in this year, Presto performed a full exterior renovation of Park Lane on Peachtree Street in Atlanta.
2004
Judah Clark teamed up with Dr. Tom Bickley, Ph.D. to create a full line of specialized products for the building restoration and maintenance industry. This venture led to the founding of Presto Restoration Products, Inc. Presto Property Services continued to flourish as it added the full exterior renovation of EarthLink Live to its portfolio.
2005
Presto restored all exterior glass, precast and metal frames on the AGCO building, while also cleaning and sealing the AGCO parking deck.
2006
Presto started nationwide service offerings with impressive restoration projects around the country. Presto began building a network of qualified services companies across the country.
2007
Presto landed its largest restoration project at 1100 Peachtree Street. Many other large projects were contracted this year as well, including 3 buildings at Lenox Park, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, 75 5th Street Atlanta, 1001 Summit Blvd and The Norcross Atlanta Marriott, to name a few.
2008
Presto phased out standard maintenance services such as window cleaning in order to concentrate on large exterior building restoration projects utilizing Presto Restoration Products' effective product line. Presto began to focus on larger restoration projects. Presto completed a large restoration project at the Turlington Building in Tallahassee, Florida.
2012
Presto celebrated its 20 year anniversary. Click here to view a small portion of the projects completed over the past two decades.
2014
Presto performed its first out-of-country restoration project in Puerto Rico. Presto experienced the best annual revenue amount in the past 7 years.
2015
Presto still going strong continues to restore large buildings across the country building its reputation within the commercial real estate and property management community.
Today
Presto Restoration Products & Services is the industry-leading expert for exterior building restoration and maintenance, and the only services company with a complete line of products for restoring and protecting glass, metal and stone. Presto offers over 72 different services to its clients, concentrating on the refinishing of architectural materials. With its unique product line and decades of experience, Presto is able to achieve better results, pricing and warranties than its competitors nationwide. Presto has proven, year after year, that it can professionally manage the building restoration and maintenance needs of some of the largest and most prestigious properties in the nation.
