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Bo Quickel
Acting as the Founder of Sky Carolina, through Wild Hare Development, company President Bo Quickel has assembled an exceptional team of professionals in the New Urbanism genre: award-winning residential, commercial and landscape architects, 3D rendering and animation specialists, branding experts, TND consultants, and graphic designers to bring his vision to life. As the sole principal of both Wild Hare Development Company, Inc. and Bo of North Carolina, Inc., he has been perfecting his homebuilding and project development career since 1992. Both companies have grown exponentially in the last 15 years, achieving success in all economic climates. With experience in both commercial and residential building, Bo of North Carolina, Inc. now specializes in every facet, style and price point of the homebuilding market. Wild Hare Development president Bo Quickel received his Business Management degree from North Carolina State University, after which he took a job in the trenches of construction and rapidly worked his way up the career ladder to owning his own company. Bo's success is due to a tenacious spirit and his hands-on approach to each task.
Through mindful decision making, Wild Hare has greatly expanded the development division of its corporation to include international resorts, including a sixty-acre ocean front condo hotel and marina project waiting to begin vertical construction in the Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies; as well as carefully crafted residential communities stateside, to include Sky Carolina located in North Carolina.
It is the desire and earnest intention of Bo Quickel, working through Wild Hare Development, to provide an authentic living environment - one that fulfills all of the requirements necessary to connect with the homesite, the enclave, and the feeling of wellness that is created when each and every aspect of the experience has been thought through, presented correctly, and properly achieved. Bo Quickel is passionate about his career, and has humbly accepted the huge responsibility that creating and maintaining a vision brings forth. It is his further belief that a home is not just bricks and mortar, but has a heart and a belief system attached to its core that transcend generations and should be built and treated as such.
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Stephen Newsome
Stephen Newsome is a proud native of North Carolina, and earned his MBA degree from Appalachian State University. Fifteen years of business experience in finance and sales gave Stephen a firm foundation for becoming a REALTOR and ultimately establishing his own real estate brokerage firm.
He is well known as a top professional in the market, having sold more than a billion dollars in real estate and other investments. He attributes this success to superior client service.
Stephen served in the US Army as a Special Operations Communications Sergeant in the Special Forces. He is a member of the Carolina Regional REALTOR Association and the National Association of REALTORS. In his spare time, Stephen enjoys boating, snowboarding, and spending time with his wife and twins. He currently holds a private pilot’s license and is close to achieving his helicopter rating.
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Mary Lentz
Mary Lentz is a natural-born athlete who has excelled both on and off the tennis courts her entire life. She has personally achieved several national rankings over the past 20 years, earning a number of championship titles. As a high-performance coach, Mary has trained state, sectional, and nationally ranked tennis players. Mary brought her experience from the court to the country clubs where she has managed, developed and restructured elite tennis and country club programs on the East Coast over the past 15 years. Her marketing and leadership skills have helped these businesses realize tremendous growth and expansion. Mary also served as a co-host and co-producer of a bi-weekly tennis TV program, “Between the Lines.”
Mary attended the University of Delaware, and has completed continuing education courses with the United States Professional Tennis Association and High Performance Coaching with USTA in August 2006. She holds numerous professional affiliations and certifications in her field of expertise.
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Sandy Aichner
Sandy Aichner relocated from Miami, Florida to live in Lake Norman and earned her bachelor’s degree in business and marketing from Meredith College. Sandy has gained a wealth of experience and knowledge as a paralegal, a mortgage loan processor, a REALTOR and broker throughout her career. While working for a local real estate firm, she was recognized for her outstanding productivity three years in a row, claiming titles of both Multi-million Dollar Producer and Top Producer.
Sandy enjoys living in the Lake Norman area and in her spare time enjoys time with her family, organizing charity events, cooking, playing tennis and running. She is an active member of the Lake Norman Tennis Association, the United States Tennis Association, and the Lake Norman Junior Women’s League.
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Angie K. Chanthavong
Angie K. Chanthavong was born in Amarillo, Texas, far from her parents’ native Laos in Southeast Asia. As a first-generation American, Angie learned to meld her rich Asian family traditions with those of the Southeastern U.S. that she was surrounded by when her family established roots in Hickory, North Carolina.
Angie's deeply rooted Asian traditions were on display when she competed for and won the title of Miss Laotian-American of Charlotte in 2002. Angie has successfully attained her Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate; she has also served as president of the Future Healthcare Leaders of America.
Angie possesses determination, an invigorating work ethic, an enthusiasm to see others prosper, and a natural consultative sales ability. Sky’s founder places a high importance on each of these traits. Angie was handpicked by the founder and asked to expand her chosen career of Wellness for an exciting opportunity to represent and become part of the future that is Sky Carolina.
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Christopher A. Kent, PA
Christopher A. Kent, PA was founded with the objective of addressing the marketing and sale of real estate at a level of sophistication and depth not typically observed in the industry – anywhere. This is accomplished by means of a combination of (a) integrating psychological, philosophical and cultural perspectives within a comprehensive approach to process; and (b) over twenty-three years of experience applying these systems within planned unit developments, destination resorts, new towns, villages and neighborhoods in the regional, national and international arenas.
The firm continues to redefine the presentation and execution of the community to blend and match the needs of a sophisticated buying public with communities crafted to meet these needs.
Our focus remains the same: to transform real estate developments into vital living communities. Services include Marketing, Sales Consulting and Training, Visioning/Planning/Assembling, Development Consulting, Commercial, Retail and Crafts Development, Institute/Foundation Work, Lectures, Seminars and Education, as well as working within existing communities.
Signature Career Highlights
Seaside
Personal oversight over the real estate marketing and sales operations on-site. Position on every major steering, management and executive committee from the town's inception until residential sellout in 1995. Continue as a retained consultant at the present time.
The Town of Seaside has been featured in over five hundred print publications regionally, nationally and internationally, the NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, CBS News, CNN and the BBC.
Other highlights include: Carillon Beach, Florida; The Beach Club, Gulf Shores, Alabama; River Ranch, Lafayette, Louisiana; Destin Pointe, Destin, Florida; State of Alabama/Honda Motor Company; The Waterfront, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa; I'On, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina; West Flanders, Netherlands; Broadclyst, Exeter, United Kingdom; Newpoint, Beaufort, South Carolina; Amelia Park, Fernandina Beach, Florida; Windsong, Shallotte, South Carolina; Town of Blount Springs, Alabama; Jasmine Dune, Seagrove Beach, Florida.
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Cornerstone Marketing & Advertising, Inc.
Established in 1994, Cornerstone Marketing & Advertising, Inc. (Cornerstone) is a full-service marketing, advertising and public relations firm located in Grayton Beach, Florida that bills itself as The Idea Boutique. Creative branding in the resort, residential, retail and entertainment industries is a trademark of this award-winning company, consistently winning American Advertising Federation Awards (ADDY's) as well as Florida Public Relations Association Image Awards of Distinction. Seaside, The St. Joe Company, Carillon Beach, Wild Heron, Hampton Island and Red Tail Mountain are signature clients that have partnered with Cornerstone for their branding and public relations programs yielding increased revenue and market share. A corporate culture of "partnering" with its clients prevails with a boutique staff of twelve creative team members.
Cornerstone has recently published a regional lifestyle magazine in May 2008 called VIE - People + Places (www.vie-peopleplusplaces.com). This high-gloss publication focuses on human interest stories, celebrating the "people and places" of the Northwest Florida region, spanning Pensacola to Apalachicola (COLA 2 COLA) and is receiving rave reviews.
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Tim Wilkison / Mike Boston / Wilkison Partners
Tim Wilkison is known to many as "Dr. Dirt" for his hard-fought wins and perseverance on the court as an internationally acclaimed professional tennis star. Wilkison brings the same focus on excellence, skill and love of the sport to the program design and staffing that guided his sports career. A Shelby native and longtime Charlotte resident, Tim played on the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour for fifteen years, starting in 1976, winning six singles titles and nine doubles titles.
He was the U. S. Junior Champion in 1977, a singles quarterfinalist at the U. S. Open and doubles semifinalist at the U. S. Open, Wimbledon and the Australian Open. He holds wins against such players as Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Guillermo Vilas, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras and has consistently been ranked as one of the world's best tennis players for over ten years.
He serves as tennis director of the Tim Wilkison Signature Sports Complex at The Palisades, chairman of the USTA Nominating Committee and is currently playing on the Senior Pro Tour.
Mike Boston, originally from Ocean City, N.J., graduated high school in Hilton Head, S.C. and played on a full tennis scholarship for the College of Charleston. He has spent twenty-five years in sports and event management and is the leader in the development of tennis, fitness and family sports programs. He specializes in facility layout, design and function and is experienced in construction management. He is also the national leader in training employees to the highest level of customer service. Mike has developed, organized and promoted major international sporting events and has marketing and sales expertise in real estate, membership sales, events and programs.
Wilkison Partners (WP) manages, owns and operates sports and recreational facilities within the finest residential communities in the country. WP hires top professionals in the tennis, fitness and swimming industry and trains them to the highest levels of customer service. The philosophy of WP is to engage the facility's management in preliminary meetings to discuss their vision and goals. From these meetings a strategic plan will be developed. WP will use their cutting-edge industry knowledge and commitment to excellence to achieve these goals. WP is the leading tennis/fitness/wellness management group with the knowledge and experience to work with the developer to design and execute a real estate sales marketing plan.
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Carlos Moore Architect, PA
Carlos Moore Architect, PA (CMA) was founded in 1987, after working twenty-two years with other firms, with the intention to provide architectural services and contribute in a meaningful way to our surrounding community. CMA's design staff of ten has over 160 years of combined construction and architectural design experience. CMA enjoys working on both small-scale and large-scale projects, and has extensive experience in the design of residential, motorsport, religious, government and commercial developments, with over 1,700 successfully completed projects.
CMA has provided services on three continents - North America, South America, and Africa, which includes work in the countries of Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Turks and Caicos, Sierra Leone and the USA.
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Heartwood Studios
Heartwood Studios' Digital StorytellingSM solutions invite real estate buyers to walk through rooms and explore spaces before the developer even breaks ground. When prospective buyers go online, they have complete freedom within the OmniViewTM 3D virtual environment. These cutting-edge technologies also allow real estate marketers to apply marketing analytics to refine their campaigns and accelerate developer pre-sales. Heartwood Studios' award-winning 3D team has created digital renderings, digital animations, and OmniViewTM interactive environments for many clients, including the Dallas Cowboys, East West Partners, SHVO, the Ritz-Carlton, and the New Jersey Nets.
Awards and Achievements Include:
- Winner of the 2007 San Francisco East Bay Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New Media category.
- 13th of "50 Fastest Growing Private Companies" by East Bay Business Times in 2007.
- Recognition for being one of the finest entrepreneurial companies in 2007 in the entire San Francisco Bay Area by California State Assemblyman Guy Houston.
- Raj Raheja & Neil Wadhawan, founders of Heartwood Studios featured in Entrepreneur Magazine
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Design Workshop
Design Workshop (DW) is a landscape architecture, land planning, urban design and tourism planning firm. DW has been providing these services for almost four decades to developers, property owners, government agencies and other clients engaged in improvements to the land. In their years of practice, they have evolved a proprietary approach into a distinct culture. DW's experience ranges from master plans for counties, planned communities, urban centers and resorts to detailed designs for public parks, residences and roadways. They have continuously honed the collaborative dynamics of the workshops and the pursuit of the ideas and ideals that result in the best solutions for every assignment. This approach remains the hallmark of DW.
Today, DW expresses their mandate as a simple premise: When environment, economics, art and community are combined in harmony with the dictates of the land and needs of society, magical places result. Places that lift the spirit. Sustainable places of timeless beauty, enduring quality and untold value – for their clients, for society and for the well-being of the planet. DW calls these extraordinary landscapes Legacy Projects. Their practice is dedicated to seeking solutions that move projects "Toward Legacy."
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