Author: Eduardo Nieves

Two MRED Alumni Make Greenville Magazine’s 2015 List of Best and Brightest 35 and Under

Congratulations to Shelby Dodson (MRED ’10) and Austin Knapp (MRED ’11) for their selection to Greenville Business Magazine’s 2015 Best and Brightest 35 and Under. As noted in the preface of the magazine’s special section, this year’s recipients were selected not only for their professional accomplishments but for their commitment to give back to the community. Both Austin and Shelby have enjoyed many successes since their graduation from the Clemson MRED program and have become active supporters of the program as employers of interns, tour hosts and guest lecturers. Click here to read the full Greenville Business Magazine article.

On September 28, the 1^st Year MRED students enjoyed a presentation and tour of the Embassy Suites that is under construction at River Place in downtown Greenville. Leif Busby and Jay Alexander of Windsor Aughtry, the hotel developer, and Steve Barber of Brasfield Gorrie, general contractor, presented a case study of the land assemblage, construction challenges, and the public-private partnership with the City of Greenville. One of the more complex mixed-use developments in Greenville, the site was purchased in 2011 with construction commencing in early 2014. Completion is scheduled for June 2016 and the development will consist of 167 hotel rooms, a Ruth’s Chris restaurant, 9,000 square feet of addition retail and 8 luxury condominiums by developer Tom Croft.

The MRED Class of 2015 spent ten days traveling from Myrtle Beach to Charleston to Hilton Head Island and Savannah, GA in May.  The 2015 trip continued with time-honored stops and added some new sites along the way as students studied some of the nation’s premier resort, retail, office, hotel historic, mixed-use, golf, and master planned communities these areas have to offer.  2015 tour stops included: Market Common,Sweet Grass Square, and the City of Myrtle Beach, Ocean Lakes Family Campground, Broadway at the Beach, Daniel Island, Greystar, I’On, The Ponds, NEXTON, Kiawah Island, Habersham, Central Savannah, Spring Island, Sea Pines, Shelter Cove, and Palmetto Bluff.