Company Bios
Fredric L. Spain
Managing Member
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Mr. Spain began his career in real estate in 1965. By 1978
he was operating 7 real estate offices in Northern Virginia. In 1978 Mr. Spain
bought the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Franchise for Maryland, Virginia
and DC. He opened another 9 offices in Maryland, Northern Virginia and one
office in the District of Columbia. He operated these offices very successfully
until 1986 when he decided to sell his offices to the broker managers of each
office. This allowed Mr. Spain to work more exclusively with his commercial and
residential developments.
During the early 1970’s and up to 1992 he, in addition to
operating his real estate business, developed a number of residential and
commercial projects. These included assembling over 3,000 acres of land and
building over 12 miles of new roads, which yielded over 2,000 residential
dwelling units. In addition he bought, rezoned and resold over 1,500 acres of
prime land in Fairfax, Prince William and Loudoun Counties, Virginia.
Through the first seven years of the 1990’s he subdivided
two parcels of land consisting of 900 and 375 acres and bought a 200-apple farm
in Fauquier County, Virginia. In early 1999, after finishing a large real
estate assemblage in Fairfax City, Mr. & Mrs. Spain sold their apple farm and
moved back close to Washington to a home on the Potomac River. In April of
1997, Mr. Spain found a real estate project known as the River Oaks Subdivision
in Woodbridge, Virginia. River Oaks is a 1st class subdivision having a total
of 1,900 residential units and over 500,000 square feet of commercial retail
space. River Oaks was developed out with the last 22 acres sold in early fall
of 2004.
Mr. Spain is the Principal Broker CENTENNIAL COMPANIES in
Reston, Virginia and, together with his wife Barbara, are partners in the West
End Group of Investors, LLC, ADS Developers, LLC and Grand Vista, LLC all three
doing business in Martinsburg and Ranson, West Virginia. The West End Group and
Grand Vista are now developing over 1,300 acres of residential and commercial
land in Ranson, West Virginia. These combined land parcels are designed by the
world renowned architect and land planner, Douglas Carter of Davis, Carter and
Scott of McLean, Virginia. These projects will be unveiled to the Public in
late December and will be one of the first totally Green Cities in America. The
project is titled RansonGreen will yield over 5,000 residential units.
Additionally, the developers will combine manufacturing of wind and solar
technologies to the region and will open up these products to the public to
allow for carbon credits to exist in West Virginia.
In regard to their commitment to Development efforts in
Ranson, West Virginia Mr. Spain and his partners have over 25 million dollars
invested in land and design work to this date and have been responsible the
annexation of over 3,000 acres into the City of Ranson. They are currently
developing 347 houses on Flowing Springs Road known as Shenandoah Springs
Neighborhood. Additionally, their efforts aided in the acquisition and planning
for the newly built Potomac Market Place, a large retail center on Route 9 in
Ranson.
Douglas N. Carter
Partner
A
founding principal of Davis, Carter, Scott, Doug Carter has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in
all aspects of architectural planning and design. With over 38 years of
experience, he has developed and designed projects for Fortune 500
corporations, institutional, governmental and retail clients, hospitals and
health care facilities throughout Europe and across the United States.
Mr.
Carter is renowned for his abilities to create and conceptualize a design
that reflects the client’s vision as well as the practical requirements and
objectives. His work has been featured in Architectural Record, Building
Design, Design and Construction, Urban Design Institute Publications,
Newsweek and Time, as well as numerous local business publications.
Under
his leadership, Davis, Carter Scott has received over 60 local, national and
international design awards, including: the Walter Taylor AIA and AASA
Award, the National Energy Conservation/ Owens-Corning National Award and
the Northern Virginia Chapter AIA Citation for Energy in Architecture Award
for Terraset
Elementary School in Reston, Virginia.
Mr. Carter is also the recipient of the 1998 Northern Virginia AIA Award of
Honor.
Mr.
Carter will have overall responsibility for the project and serve as Lead
Designer. He will be actively involved to ensure that design is consistent,
responsive and appropriate for the project scope and budget. He will commit
all necessary resources to bring the project to a successful completion.
