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challenging circumstances as well. from any architectural studio regardless of the
A few of our biggest projects this year include an market segment. There were also a number of
infrastructure remediation for a Wells Fargo data well-deserved promotions associated with the
center and several new student apartment buildings reorganization, so if you see any of these team
for Central Georgia Technical College. Another members please be sure to congratulate them on
highlight is a new customer relationship that has us their continued professional growth! Brian Fain
engineering prototypes and site-adapt designs for moved to Senior Vice President, Chris Crovo to Vice
the Tidal Wave Auto Spa brand. We have designed President; and Tony Peters, Erik Hagihara, Scott
18 new locations for Tidal Wave so far, and we look Simmons, Max Biddle, and Brian Hafendorfer all
forward to more. moved to Director. Meredith Darsey is now Manager
We were pleased to see one of our projects in the Administrative Services and Keith Bailey is Manager,
Atlanta news recently when the newly expanded Project Cost Control.
Midtown High School reopened. This was one of our We also had a number of personal and
4 more unique and challenging projects as, due to the professional achievements that deserve recognition
as well. Randall Vaughn received the Julian
limited space around the historic school, the new
classroom building had to be designed to bridge 30 Oberwarth Gold Medal award for Service from the
feet over the sewer system. It took a lot of hard work Kentucky chapter of the AIA, which is a wonderful
and a lot of coordination with the architects and tribute to Randall and his continued contributions to
contractors to pull off this feat, and we are thrilled the architecture practice. Michelle Clark welcomed
with the result. a baby boy in August and Keith Macchione got
We are looking forward to some big opportunities married in September. I’m looking forward to
coming down the line, and we are aiming to additional growth of our A/E team and sustained
continue expanding our team next year. We remain financial success next fiscal year and beyond, none
committed to trusting our core values to guide us of which could be accomplished without the hard
through challenges and bring continued success. work and dedication of everyone on the team.
Gray Architects & Gray Development
Engineers with Curt Hargrove
President
with Dowell Hoskins
President
Since June, we have welcomed eight new team Since our last update, we are excited to announce
members to the Gray A/E team, and we had four we successfully sold Project Gray 5 a few months
more start in October! Like the rest of the Gray ago and have started to break ground on our new
organization, we have been extremely fortunate to speculative project, Project Gray 6, in Jeffersonville,
have several extremely large projects in execution Indiana. In partnership with both Gray Ohio Valley
as well as the best sales pipeline we have ever as the GC and Willett Engineering as the Structural
seen. This is stretching our teams but also providing Engineer of Record, this new facility will be a
great opportunities for both professional and 256,000 s.f. Class A industrial building that can
personal growth. accommodate a number of users tied to our core
Due to our growth this fiscal year, we recently sectors. We expect to be finished with construction
re-organized Gray Architects & Engineers in June of 2022, and we have once again agreed
to set us up to more efficiently staff projects to sell this building to an eager investor when
