Nolan Woody’s portfolio of building projects is about as eclectic as it gets for a modern construction company manager.
Clicking through the many photos on his company’s website, Woody, 33, shows a visitor an upscale RV park in the Smoky Mountains, a plush townhome project near Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, a striking new baseball complex at Chattanooga Christian School and a popular townhome cluster in St. Elmo. Oh, and there’s a custom house on Missionary Ridge, too.
Woody is an operating partner of Curbed Construction, a 4-year-old general contracting company specializing in small- to-medium-sized projects and headquartered on Main Street in Chattanooga’s booming Southside district.
A graduate of the McCallie School, Woody is a former Blue Tornado baseball player who continued his sports career at Lincoln Memorial University and later in a Canadian baseball league for a team in Edmonton, Alberta.
“I was making $800 a month living in a college dorm,” Woody recalled of his Canadian baseball experience. “I was like: ‘I can’t do this. It’s not sustaining.’ … I played one season.”