Let’s hand out some HIGH-FIVES as we head toward the weekend:

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: American Express on the ground breaking of their new 55-story HQ in New York. The address is 2 World Trade Center. It is the last commercial property being developed in the footprint of the World Trade Center attacked September 11, 2001.

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Carter Cooper & the Richmond Properties, Inc. team as they add Weston Poole and look to grow throughout the Gulf Coast/Florida Panhandle.

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Bill Popp on being named the new Commissioner of the Gulf South Conference here in Birmingham.

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Len Shannon SIOR, CCIM, CPM .., Derek Waltchack and the folks at Shannon Waltchack in Bham on picking up the management portfolio for Spark Properties Group that includes properties in Rockford, IL; Fort Collins, CO; Las Vegas, NV; and Portsmouth, VA. It is fantastic to see our Alabama companies continue to do some great stuff.

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Brittany Schaffer on being named the incoming CEO of the Country Music Association (CMA) in Nashville. Brittany is a Samford University Cumberland School of Law alum and has been the Dean of my son’s school (Belmont University Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business} since he has been there. She has done a fantastic job at Belmont and is a big pickup for the CMA.

🤩 BONUS HIGH-FIVE: Skip Powe and the Alabama Road Builders Association on trying something new. They are having a Birmingham Summer Social at The Club next Thursday, July 16th. Get in touch with them if you want to attend. Thanks to Adam Pierce, MBA & Origin Bank for sponsoring.

🤩 BONUS HIGH-FIVE: Mr. Roy Drinkard with Drinkard Development in Cullman who is turning 106 this weekend. Just an amazing man.

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☑️ Remember to listen to TRUITT NEWS RADIO in the morning. We kick off at 7AM every Saturday morning on Bham’s Talk 99.5. Tomorrow we have Adam Arrington (Earl Dudley, LLC) and Liz Harrison (Grace Klein Community) as our guests.

🛑 Thanks for the read. Enjoy your weekend. Keep doing great stuff.