Receiving special recognition

were company founders Perry and Scott Knight, who are both still active

with the company.

Scott's son Chris, who

now serves as vice president, welcomed the crowd to "a very special

year and event for us", adding that "we are very humbled and

flattered by the response." He referred to his father and his uncle

as "the guys that made it happen."

Jay Knight, Perry's son

who now is the president, recalled that it all began 25 years when the

Knight brothers decided to build a deck on their house. After that, he

said, they started building sundecks as a business, later expanding into

aluminum siding installation, roofing, and painting, and then going into

framing houses.

A year after starting the framing

business, he said, they were framing a house a day, while saving as much

as they could and putting the money back into the business. "They

built a house and sold it, and so on, and two years ago, the company had

grown to the level of building 450 homes a year."

Thanking the company representatives

in the audience, Jay Knight told them that "we (the Knights) have

done every job in the business over the years, so we can really appreciate

what all of you have done."

The Knight Group, Inc., based

in Jonesboro, was founded in 1978 and is currently building in Clayton,

Henry, South Fulton and DeKalb counties. The company was No. 14 in the

Atlanta Business Chronicle's annual listing of "Atlanta's

Top 25 Home Builders."

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