The video promotes the Counselors of Real Estate Carolina's Creative Thinkers Awards, emphasizing that the awards honor individual innovators rather than just real‑estate projects. It showcases a range of awardees and initiatives that improve community health, recreation, education, and overall quality of life. Highlights include billionaire David Murdock’s longevity research campus, Johnson C. Smith University President Ron Carter’s urban revitalization efforts, the One mixed‑use development, and the South Carolina Governor’s School of Science and Math. Throughout, the narration stresses the importance of visionary thinking, risk‑taking, and the impact of real‑estate‑driven ideas on how people live, work, learn, and play.
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Creative Thinkers Awards look for the best.
As opposed to many real estate awards, we felt that the individual thinker, the individual creator of the idea, was the person who should be honored with the Creative Thinkers Award. And it's a unique type of perspective to look at.
The best health. Billionaire David Murdock, founder of the North Carolina Biological Research Campus dedicated to longevity and an end to disease.
I've been reasonably financially successful, and a lot of people leave behind and give to different places their money. I thought, why in the hell don't I spend some of my own money for creating something good for mankind?
The best recreation.
There's a fly ball, deep left field, that's way back there, it's at the wall, it's up, up, it is gone! I don't know what else this land could have been used for any better than this. Just look at the apartment buildings going up now around here, and some of these we've made it happen with the Knights.
The Counselors of Real Estate Carolina's chapter highlights the best in the annual Creative Thinkers Awards.
The way we live, the way we work, the way we learn, the way we play is all affected by real estate. We just lose track of that. So our search is to find that person who's changing the way we do those things.
Changing communities for the best, like Johnson C. Smith President Ron Carter.
Why the, the stark difference between Trade Street, Center City? You go under the bridge and all of a sudden you see a sense of And I became very passionate that Johnson C. Smith University would not sit behind gates. Think big. Think about the initiative as giving back to the community.
Giving the best to the community, like the One mixed-use project.
There are 2 measures of life. There's quality of life and quantity of life, and we're all starting to talk about quality of life. And quality of life really, I think, is defined as not wasting a moment of your time. It's all about what The people are behind the award, not necessarily the buildings or the real estate, but it's the people behind it and what they've done.
Like the best in education at the South Carolina Governor's School of Science and Math.
I like to say this is the school with no limits. This is the school where if you can dream it, you can do it. We've had some outstanding projects that we've given awards for. They've given us a lot of very positive attention, and each year the ceremony's gotten bigger and better. These are projects that are bold projects that someone took a lot of risk on, and they required a lot of thinking, a lot of clarity. And through all this, these creative thinkers have been able to create a project to make our community the best it can be.
Creative thinkers making our community the best it can be.
