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Shealy and Company is an innovative real estate investment and development company that prides itself on its creative vision, versatility, and passion for crafting vibrant, artistic, “green” communities. We promote “slow living,” the enrichment of quality rather than quantity in every aspect of life, through our envisioning and planning of new communities that foster the connection between nature and its developed environment. With the increasing complexity of the development industry, it is our intention to implement the principles of Light Imprint Design, Smart Growth and Green Building Standards. We design our communities to maximize the use of renewable and efficient energy sources, encourage reuse and recycling, and minimize pollution while increasing comfort and convenience. We connect people with nature and each other through carefully designed, walkable communities that encourage environmental stewardship. One of our goals is to educate the next generation in order to create change in our daily lives and our collective system of values.
Envision the development of vibrant, green communities. Fuse exciting new ideas with tried and true conventions in order to create unique settings for life. Connect people to each other, nature, commerce, and recreation through development.
To enrich life and the environment through every real estate development.
E. Wade Shealy, Jr. began his sales career while attending the University of Georgia where he studied landscape architecture. He sold dictionaries door-to-door for the Southwestern Company to pay for his college expenses and quickly became one of their top salesmen in the 150-year history of the company. During this time he built a large sales organization and after he graduated from UGA with honors, he decided to join the company full time as a sales manager training and managing thousands of college students. His hard work was recognized and he was awarded Sales Manager of the Year for four straight years.
In 1984, Wade began selling real estate on Hilton Head Island. After two years as one of the island’s top sales people, he co-founded one of the largest and most successful real estate companies in South Carolina.
Over the past twenty years, he has consulted for several Fortune 500 companies on real estate sales and development and has been responsible for managing more than $2.5 billion in resort development and sales.
In February 2001, he joined Intrawest as vice president of sales and marketing for the Eastern US, the Caribbean, and Mexico. He was responsible for the largest regional growth in the company by increasing his region from one resort to eleven resorts in the short span of two years. He was an integral part of the envisioning and creation for Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin and led the sales team to a successful sellout of the project.
In 2003, Wade Shealy purchased Hampton Island and was the visionary force behind the land plan and product concept. Hampton Island is considered one of the lowest impact coastal communities in America. As managing member and developer, he was instrumental in bringing the 2006 Southern Accents Showcase House to the island.
The Robb Report recently featured Hampton Island as one of the top three private recreational communities in America. Additional news articles include The Wall Street Journal, Georgia Trend, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Links Magazine, Private Air, Coastal Living, Golf Georgia, American Spa, Golf Magazine Living, Executive Traveler, Savannah Magazine, The New York Times, the Land Rover Lifestyle magazine, and in more than 1000 national and international publications.
During the last five years Wade Shealy has provided consulting on envisioning and design for more than a dozen new coastal resort communities. Other properties he has been involved in include Wild Heron Florida, Punta Mita Mexico, and Veranda at Turks and Caicos.
Throughout the resort industry Shealy is considered one of the foremost experts on envisioning and product design. He has been featured in numerous publications including the LA Times, Georgia Trend magazine, The University of Georgia Terry Magazine and has been quoted many times in The Wall Street Journal. In 2004 he was awarded the Tree Friendly Developer of the Year for coastal Georgia and has received numerous awards for marketing, architecture, and land planning.
In 2007, Shealy formed The Jekyll Island Company in pursuit of the right to redevelop Jekyll Island for the state of Georgia. The Jekyll Island Company’s team of consultants included land planners Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ), architects Lew Oliver Inc., Whole Town Solutions and Robert A.M. Stern Architects, green consultant Steven Winter Associates, and financial partner Merrill Lynch.
Shealy is a member of the Urban Land Institute, past member of the Governor’s Land Conservation Partnership Advisory Council, Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee, Georgia Land Conservation Council, and has been a guest lecturer for the Department of Natural Resources on Green Infrastructure and the UGA School of Environment and Design and the Terry School of Business. He has also been a guest lecturer for the University of Georgia Alumni Association. Shealy resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
For more about Wade please visit www.wadeshealy.com.
Shealy and Company excels in conducting due diligence, site selection, land assembling, negotiation, and securing financial capital. We have assembled tracts of land to create unique destinations such as Hampton Island, which is considered to be one of the top private communities in America.
Our group prides itself in the ability to see not only what a piece of real estate is, but everything that it can become. We specialize in the creation of new town concepts that integrate “green” standards in order to build vibrant, sustainable communities. Shealy and Company recently submitted a vision and development plan to the state of Georgia for a new town to be built at Jekyll Island. Over the past five years, we have helped envision more than a dozen major communities.
Shealy and Company approaches each project with the same ardor and zeal in order to create the best concept possible.We believe in applying the concepts of “magic and logic,” magic in the creation of a wonderful new place from an ordinary site and logic in the process of creating the necessary systems and its profitability.We then write the “story” of the new development and explain its significance to its local surroundings and beyond.
Shealy and Company has experience with some of the world’s leading design professionals including town planning firmDuany Plater-Zyberk and architecture firms Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Lew Oliver Inc., Whole Town Solutions.We are adept at coordinating work produced by our consultants that meets the highest standards for quality while delivering on budget and on time.
Shealy and Company has extensive experience with resort and coastal developments that feature a wide range of recreational amenity packages. Our group recognizes the need for amenities to be tailored to each development and has designed themaccordingly.Whether near the ski slopes of Stratton, Vermont or on the sands of Turks and Caicos, Shealy and Company creates a truly unique amenity package that best complements the rest of the development.
Wade Shealy, Founder of Shealy and Company, serves on the Governor’s Land
Conservation Council for Georgia and helped craft the State’s Conservation
Program. Since its inception in April 2005, the Council has endorsed
thirty-seven conservation projects across Georgia totaling 37,000+ acres,
established eleven conservation easements and finalized twenty-six fee
title acquisitions. Shealy and Company will apply its in-depth knowledge of
conservation easements to any development opportunity to maximize tax
incentives and protect sensitive areas while permanently preserving nature for
future generations. Shealy and Company can identify the easements, find the
right group to hold the easement, handle the appraisal and file the easements.
Shealy and Company seeks to be as environmentally sensitive as possible in its projects in every way including site selection, alternative energy, stormwater reuse, energy efficiency, alternative transportation, and more. We have partnered with environmental consultant and LEED certification expert Steven Winter Associates in the past to ensure the right “green” measures are in place to minimize the impact of our developments.We use“Light Imprinting” to guarantee that our design minimizes the use of our natural resources while keeping costs in line.
As part of our due diligence process, our team researches comparables and market conditions in every market we consider entering.We do an in-depth analysis of comparables and understand the economic viability of each project. We also perform extensive quantitative analyses in our real estate assessments and create detailed financial pro formas for each new project.
Our group is experienced in managing permitting and approval processes at the federal, state, and local levels. Some examples of permitting experience that we offer include EPD, marina, DNR, and zoning.
Wade Shealy has managed over $2.5 billion of resort development and sales.Our group has an in-house creative department that designs all of our marketing materials. Shealy and Company also has relationships with top real estate sales organizations.
Developments that Wade Shealy has been involved in as the owner, visionary, developer and/or exclusive sales and marketing:
At Jekyll Island, our group had the unique opportunity to plan an entirely new town. With the help of world-renowned land planners Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ) and “green” consultant Steven Winter Associates, we laid out a 45-acre town center that featured 5 civic buildings, 992 residential units, a 250-room boutique hotel, 68,000 square feet of retail, and 75,000 square feet of convention space. We wanted to create a vibrant beach town accessible to all Georgians and built to the current scale of the island. The oceanfront site is incredibly beautiful, but is wrought with sensitive environmental conditions such as the dunes system, underground water aquifer, and inland tidal and maritime ecosystems. Through systems of “green” networks including “green” streets, rooftop gardens, and open space areas, we created a town center that was independent of the dunes, maximized absorption and reuse of stormwater, and minimized the effects of the urban heat island effect. Our plan emphasized outdoor living and civic space while providing ocean views and access for both future residents and day visitors. The town center land plan was designed to meet LEED for Neighborhood Development Platinum certification.
Working with architect Lew Oliver and DPZ, our group researched historic architectural styles at Jekyll Island. We borrowed the Shingle and Italian Renaissance styles of architecture from the Historic District and implemented them in our new residential and civic building designs along with LEED Silver design criteria. Many of our buildings featured roof top gardens and rainwater capture technology.
The 250-room American Summer Hotel and convention center was planned to be the flagship for Jekyll Island’s redevelopment. It was to be built first in order to bring visitors back to the island while allowing currently scheduled events to carry on in the existing convention center. All rentals and sales of the new homes on the island were to take place from the first floor of the hotel so as to provide guests and potential buyers a consistent, quality experience. The hotel was to be situated across from a wedding chapel and positioned around a Savannah-style, garden-square overlooking the ocean.
Jekyll Island has always been touted as an island for all Georgians. We wanted to make sure that it remained the same under our control. Our building designs called for high-end building supplies and intricate exterior design features, but we nevertheless found ways to price 272 of our 942 for-sale units under $400,000 and set our Average Daily Rate at the American Summer Hotel at $195 per night.
We envisioned the majority of the seasonal retail and restaurant staff for Jekyll Island coming from Georgia’s universities during their summer breaks. To accommodate them, we planned fifty Employee Housing apartment units that would be built above our major commercial space. The apartments would be offered for $150 per week and would ensure that our employees had a safe and affordable place to live within walking distance of their employers.
The Charleston Row Houses were designed to be true second home residences and propagate an entire street directly south of the Crescent Plaza and “restaurant row,” the central hub of activity in the new town center. These homes would be a mix of floor plans and exterior design styles and would be some of the most luxurious of the units for sale.
The live/work Shell Lofts were planned along a pedestrian-friendly “green” street bustling with art gallery, office, boutique, and café foot traffic. The business space would be set in front of or below the business owner’s home creating the quickest commute times on the island!
Twenty-two Bistro Inns were planned around the Crescent Plaza overlooking the ocean. Each Bistro Inn would offer a unique restaurant experience at different price ranges and times of day. When put into the rental program, the inn units would be cash flow neutral.
At twenty units per building, the Georgian was the largest residential building in the town center. All seven of the Georgians were planned on oceanfront sites and offered tremendous views. Forty of the Georgians were to be sold as fractional ownership units, further enhancing the affordability and access for all Georgians.
The Sea Views were the most prevalent residential buildings in our town with fifty-seven of them spread throughout the 45-acre site. We made sure to accentuate outdoor accessibility with sleeping porches and interior courtyards for each Sea View.
The Savannah Townhomes were planned for the intimate portions of the 45-acre site. The Savannah homes would feature courtyards and detached carriage houses outside of the major retail and commercial district, but still within a five-minute walk of the Crescent Plaza.
The Hangar Club was planned for a later phase of development to serve the wants of the airstrip and historic district extension’s visitors. The Hangar Club was to be a hip restaurant and bar overlooking the Jekyll’s airstrip and marshes.