Dallas Home Builder George Lewis Honored With Achievement Award, Mike Sugrue Developer of the Year, in Texas

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George Lewis - Lifetime Achievement - Cropped for WebI have known George Lewis for umpteen years, and believe this is highly fitting. In Dallas, he is the pioneer of the “tear down to re-build” on your own lot. George, president of George Lewis Custom Homes, past president of both the Dallas Builders Association and the Texas Association of Builders, has been honored with the Ted Schlossman Lifetime Achievement Award.

Also, Dallas BA member Mike Sugrue of StoneLeaf, Inc. has been named Developer of the Year. These recognitions were part of Texas Association of Builder’s annual “Of the Year” Awards, bestowed Nov. 21 at their Excellence in Leadership Dinner at the Driskill Hotel in Austin.

The awards recognize exemplary service and leadership contributions to the home building industry across the state.

Other Dallas BA members received Presidential Distinguished Service Awards, presented at the TAB Board of Directors fall meeting. These were Greg Harwell, of Slates Harwell LLP; James Rudnicki and Don Shelton, both with Bush Rudnicki Shelton; and Terry Weaver, Sterling Development Co.

George Lewis served as president of the Dallas BA in 2003 and of the TAB in 2006. He was the 2004 recipient of the Hugh Prather Trophy, the highest honor bestowed by the Dallas BA. Lewis is a Life Director of both the TAB and the National Association of Home Builders.

He holds CGB, CGR, GMB, CAPS and CGP professional designations. Throughout his life, he has worked with youth sports, mentored disadvantaged youth in the “I Have a Dream” Program, participated in community development with Voice of Hope and the West Dallas Ministry and is a Paul Harris Fellow designee with Rotary International.

TAB Executive Vice President Scott Norman, who presented the award, got it straight. He called Lewis “a consummate professional, lifelong learner and mentor of future generations” who has set the standard as a home builder every day. George Lewis “has been an invaluable member of numerous committees, chaired important task forces and served as a director at the local, state and national levels,” said Norman. “In these positions of leadership and as the associations faced rapid changes moving into the 21st Century, his extensive business background, incredible education and technology experience allowed him to advise and lead us to implement new systems and procedures necessary to thrive in this new age of technology. His impact ranges from financial and investment policies to building standards to government relations. He understands the many facets of the association and how they all relate to a successful organization.”

Lewis has built many a home for friends, some of the most discriminating folks in town, including my next-door neighbor.

Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree in diplomatic history from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard. He became a second lieutenant in the Air Force Space Systems Command. During his years with the Air Force, he developed his initial project management skills as a contract negotiator for the earliest Star Wars studies and the first anti-satellite weapons system. After military service, Lewis gained additional project management experience at TRW Space Technology Laboratories and Recognition Equipment in Dallas. It wasn’t until 1970, when he was recruited by a land developer, that he got into home building.

Later, he pioneered the concept of the “tear down to rebuild” on the owner’s lot in the Park Cities.

 

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

5 Comments

  1. Vicki White on August 13, 2014 at 12:01 am

    I am SO thrilled to have a new listing of a George Lewis home at 3409 Hanover!!! Even though this 5414 square foot home was built in 1991, the quality and timelessness of a George Lewis home always stands out!

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