Chattanooga is booming. It's just things have come together.
Bright plays a song with 16-time Grammy Award winning banjoist Béla Fleck, left, at the Folk School of Chattanooga in May 2012. (Contribtued photo)Fletcher Bright uses the word “opportunistic” when he talks about the company that bears his name.
“We have to keep our eyes open,” the 86-year-old businessman said, citing as an example a trio of developments his company has underway on downtown Chattanooga’s trendy North Shore.
Bright joined his father, Gardner, in the real estate business right out of Davidson College in 1953. His father had started the company in 1927 with friend and business associate James A. Glascock, and it was appealing joining a business which then already was well established and is 90 years old this year, Bright says.
He recalls that in 1953, the company consisted of his father, himself and a secretary. Today, the Fletcher Bright Co. has about 50 employees, including an office in Atlanta.