In my prior life at a public accounting firm, I handled real estate development and construction clients, among other industries. None of my real estate clients owned construction companies, and only a few of my construction clients developed their own real estate. While working at McGuire and Hester and seeing jobs we had with various real estate developers, hearing field management questioning the over-engineering, and the typical scratching of the head, “Why are they having us do that,” we asked ourselves, “Why not us? Why don’t we start developing our own real estate projects?”