Terry S. Ward has enjoyed an extraordinary career in sales, marketing, business and real estate development marked by a strong sense of leadership and innovation.
Terry is a native of Ohio and attended Ohio State. While attending college in the early 70s, Terry was featured on the cover of Billboard Magazine as the youngest disk jockey in a major U.S.A. Market. His radio station in Columbus, Ohio, WCOL, was ranked No.1 in Columbus and No.14 in the country. Also, during his 4 year tenure with WCOL, Terry created one of the most successful promotions ever in radio history, Keep It On WCOL, which received national publicity and was instrumental in WCOL being ranked No. 1 for 2 years.
Terry left Columbus in 1977 to work with the Houston Astros Baseball team as their Assistant Marketing Coordinator. During his 2 years with the team, he demonstrated his great marketing skills by initiating a promotional campaign around the replacement of the Astroturf in the Houston Astrodome. Recognizing the historic significance of the old ground cover, he arranged for swatches of the turf to be registered, packaged and distributed to the first 20,000 fans at an Astros game, creating a truly memorable keepsake.
In 1979, Terry made his first start as a restaurateur with the creation of Texas Tumbleweed Restaurants, an enterprise that grew to 7 Houston locations in an eighteen month period. This successful venture led him to the incorporation of Real Estate Holdings, Inc. (DBA The Ward Group) in 1981 for the primary purpose of opening a new restaurant group, known as Dirty's Restaurant, in Houston, Texas, which eventually grew to two highly successful locations by 1983. In 1988, while maintaining an average of 4 million dollars a year in sales at what was one of Houston’s most popular restaurants, Terry began focusing on the real estate business at a time when the Houston real estate market was in total chaos.
In 1991, Terry sold the restaurant business, and from that time until 1998 acquired and sold approximately 75 million dollars worth of commercial real estate, including the purchase of 100 percent of the remaining commercial real estate in the Copperfield area from The Friendswood Development and still serves as President of the Commercial and Architectural Association. Mr. Ward has built for Walgreens, The Woodlands Corporation, Hollywood Video, Kelsey Seybold Clinic, and St. Luke’s.
During 1999, realizing the aging population of America and the 80 million baby boomers wanted to stay professionally and emotionally active in retirement, Terry created the Country Community concept. He has bought, developed and sold real estate valued at more than 115 million dollars, has aggregated more than 1000 acres of prime commercial land, along with the development of the very successful residential / ranch properties known as Ranches of Doe Run (Chappell Hill, Texas), Windy Meadows (Chappell Hill, Texas), TimberLake Village (Tomball, Texas), SpringCreek Village (Brenham, Texas), Meadows of Chappell Hill (Chappell Hill, Texas) and Ranches of Brushy Top (Texas Hill County). The next steps for Mr. Ward will be The Meadows of Chapman Mountain (Luray, Virginia) and Rancho Cazadores, Langtry, Texas both in the Summer of 2008.
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