The awards program

gives members of its 3,870-member association an

opportunity to compete with their industry

professionals in building, remodeling, marketing

and personal achievement areas.

This year, 36

industry professionals came to Atlanta from

across the United States during August to judge

664 entries. The Knight Group earned a Silver

Award in the category for Single Family Detached

Homes in the $99,999 and under price range

(companies building 100 plus homes a year). The

winning home is located in the Biscayne Pointe

community in the Rex area of Clayton County. With

homes priced from the $90,000s up, Biscayne

Pointe is on a pace to record over 125 new home

sales during 1999.

The marketing team

in the community is composed of Knight Realty's

Ann Burell and Nancy Kerlin, who can be contacted

at (770) 507-2489 . The Knight Group, formerly

known as Knight Development, is a family business

and has earned numerous awards for building

quality and customer service in recent years.

During the 1990s,

the company has been a consistent winner of

Professionalism Awards in the annual competition,

bringing home two of these awards in 1992, five

in 1995, one in 1997 and two in 1998. The Knight

Group has a history going back to 1973, when

brothers Perry and Scott Knight started framing

houses for builders in the Metro South area.

They began building

homes in the late 1970s. Perry's son Jay, who

joined the firm in 1982, now serves as president

of The Knight Group, which currently builds

approximately 250 homes a year. Scott's son

Chris, who joined the company last year, is now

vice president.