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Greenville Business Magazine has named Nick Campbell, Director of Sales at GBS Building Supply, one of its 36 Best and Brightest 35 and Under. To read Nick’s profile, click here and scroll to page 54.
Addison Homes announced this week the hiring of Melissa Hill Threatt, Associate AIA, and Ken Penland. Threat joins the home builder as an estimator. Penland joins the company as a project superintendent.
Read the entire report at Greenville Business Magazine by clicking here.
In their July issue, Greenville Business Magazine featured a young couple that represents the next generation of home buyers. The article discusses their buying preferences and how the preferences of their generation will be different from those of previous generations.
The article also details research done by HBA Executive Vice President Michael Dey on how demographics have affected the home building industry. In the article Dey contends that reduced demand resulted in the housing market collapse and contributed to the financial market meltdown–that the financial market collapse was a victim of reduced demand, not the cause of it. He states that demand will recover when the next generation of first-time home buyers, Generation Y, begin buying homes in earnest in the next several years.
Read the entire article at Greenville Business Magazine by clicking here. Scroll to page 20 for the article titled “Generational Homebuying.”
HBA 2008 President Todd Usher, GMB, Master CGP, SC CMB, CAPS, President of Addison Homes, was featured on the cover of Greenville Business Magazine this month (July issue) under the feature, “Greening Greenville’s Homes.”
The article delves into the business of green home building and remodeling. Featured and quoted in the article are HBA members:
Also in the July issue is a profile of another HBA member, Upstate Forever. The article features their headquarters building, finished in 2008 to LEED Platinum standards.
Addison Homes builds all of their homes to EarthCraft and Energy STAR standards. Todd and his wife, Michelle, an HBA Affiliate member, regularly discuss the virtues of building and remodeling to high-performance “green” standards.
In case you missed it, HBA 1998-1999 President Gail Crawford was featured on the cover of Greenville Business Magazine in May under the feature, “Women Who Lead.”
The article describes Gail’s career, including 23 years in banking through a successful 20-year career as a home builder, developer, and real estate broker.
Gail has retired to her mountain home in North Carolina with her husband, Earl, but continues to keep tabs on her hometown of Greenville and she remains a member of the HBA of Greenville.
Read the profile of Gail Crawford in Greenville Business Magazine by clicking here.