Terry College of Business - Fall 2008 - (Page 19) Frank Brumley (BBA ‘62) learned the coastal development business from the inimitable Charles Fraser (BBA ’50), creator of Sea Pines. With Amelia Island, Wild Dunes, and Kiawah Island on his resume, Brumley has now turned his attention to Daniel Island. r a n k Brumley’s not a Texan, by a stretch. He’s more comfortable in a hunting cap than a 10-gallon hat. Instead of snakeskin boots, you’re likely to find him wading through thickets in leather snake-leggings. Still, a phrase from Texas best defines Brumley’s secret to success: Howdy, podnuh! “You get a lot of good things done when you have like-minded, ethical people pulling on the same rope,” says Brumley, winner of a 2008 Terry College of Business Distinguished Alumni Award [see story on p. 36]. “I like to think that picking partners is one of my specialties.” Plenty of partners have pulled a rope with Frank Brumley. He’s fired the dreams and balanced the interests of bankers, realtors, planners, contractors, politicians, environmentalists, civic groups, churches, educators, administrators, restaurateurs, other developers — any and everybody it takes, in fact, to build and foster successful communities. In his 35-year career as a development executive, Brumley and various partners have assembled ventures in some of America’s most famous and most successful planned communities, taking them from by charles mcnair photo by william struhs When Frank Brumley and his older brother George bought Daniel Island from The Guggenheim Foundation for $12 million in 1997, the island was deserted except for the remains of seven truck farms. To foster the idea of community in their ambitious mixed-use development, they donated land to churches and schools and set aside hundreds of acres for parks. They added homes in phases, a neighborhood at a time, some million-dollar mansions, some middle-class homes, some affordable housing. Terry College oF Business Fall 2008 • 19
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