The WRS Companies provide a range of real estate investment services, including development of retail, office, hospitality and industrial projects, real estate property management, and real estate brokerage services.

WRS caters to a set of anchor and small shop tenants for whom its key employees had developed previously, including Wal-Mart, Staples, and Kohls, as well Dollar Tree, Cato, Shoe Show, Sally Beauty and others. WRS has and will continue to pursue outlot ground and build to suit lease opportunities with McDonald’s, Arby’s, Chick-fil-A, Ruby Tuesdays, O’Charley’s, Discount Tire, Bank of America, Murphy Oil and other outparcel users as well as office, hospitality, and industrial users. The principals, as well as other key employees, have contacts in the real estate industry that continue to provide WRS with development assignments. Also, the principals have developed a network of land brokers over the years that are the “eyes and ears” of an early alert system for competitive land acquisition opportunities.

In satisfying the needs of its clients, the Companies provide real estate brokerage services, including market studies, site selection, contract negotiation, and coordination of zoning and permitting processes. In the greater Charleston area, G&E is regarded as one of the preeminent independent brokerage firms, with a significant share of the industrial, office and retail leasing and sales activity in the market. Regionally, WRS has leveraged its anchor tenant development relationships to provide brokerage services in situations in which tenant self-development is the preferable alternative.

SOREM’s property management services are a natural complement to the development and brokerage activities of WRS and G&E. While SOREM’s involvement in the day to day operation of commercial real estate assets provides an accurate perspective on current activity and issues that WRS and G&E employ in assisting their clients to make development and investment decisions, the experience and contacts of WRS’ leasing and construction management personnel and G&E’s leasing personnel provides SOREM with access to information and contacts unusual in the property management business.

The average level of experience in development and/or property management for the key employees of WRS exceeds twenty years. Many of these employees had been the core of the development and management teams at Wyatt Development Co., Inc. (a pre-eminent southeastern retail development firm) through the last half of the 1990’s, and since the inception of WRS, during which time more than 50 Wal- Mart anchored shopping centers, nearly a dozen CVS drug stores, and several Kohls stores were produced. The team, has since expanded to include other industry veterans with broad development and management in office, hospitality, sports facilities and industrial development activities.