Alvin B. Cates Recipients

2023 Recipients

Taylor Smith
Taylor Smith

Terminus Commercial Real Estate Partners

J.M. Scott
J.M. Scott

KW Commercial Atlanta Perimeter

This challenging project encompassed 61 parcels, 42 Sellers, over 30 acres, resulting in a transaction of $27.3 Million dollars over nearly five years. Key to this team’s success was the support and assistance from the Purchaser’s Agents – Joe Cannon, Chapman Hall Realtors Alpharetta, and Richard Pledger, Keller Williams Realty Cityside. This award-winning project truly showcases the perseverance and diligence required to overcome multiple obstacles, while also demonstrating the critical importance of building trust and respect with all participants and team members.

About the Award

2020 MDC Alvin B. Cates

The Alvin B. Cates Award is one of the most prestigious awards of the Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS®. The trophy shall be awarded for a transaction that is considered to be outstanding, noteworthy and is based on creativity, ingenuity and skill, rather than on volume. The size or consideration of the transaction is not of special importance.

In 1937, Mr. Alvin B. Cates, Sr., presented to the Georgia Association of REALTORS® a large and beautiful sterling silver trophy with the request that it be awarded annually to the member of the association who completed the most outstanding real estate transaction of the calendar year.

The Alvin B. Cates award was presented almost every year to a member of the Atlanta Board for a commercial transaction. In the late 1950's the Georgia Association of REALTORS® retired the trophy to the Atlanta Board. Since then, the Atlanta Commercial Board continues to present this prestigious Award each year at the Million Dollar Club Banquet and the silver trophy is held by the recipient for one year until the next recipient is awarded.

Each year, the Committee is challenged with the task to select only one deal which will best fulfill the criteria to exemplify a commercial transaction considered to be extraordinary. We are proud of the long history of the Alvin B. Cates Award and of the outstanding REALTORS® who are the honored recipients.

Past Recipients

Sim Doughtie, 2022
Bob Stephens, 2022
Leonte Benton, 2021
Corey Ferguson, 2021
Cedric Matheny, 2021
Dallas Smith, 2021
Dexter Warrior, 2021
John Shlesinger, 2020
Sam Holmes, 2020
Doug LeClair, 2020
Ellen Stern, 2020
David Walmsley, 2019
Robert Jordan, 2019
Mary Katherine McRae, 2018
Chris Wagner, 2018
Dom Wyant, 2018
David M. Demarest, 2017
Josh Hirsch, 2017
Brannan C. Moss, 2017
Gregg A. Metcalf, 2016
Robert W. Metcalf, Jr., 2016
Shannon Price, 2016
Sim F. Doughtie, 2015
Brannan Moss, 2014
Josh Hirsh, 2014
Aileen Almassy, 2013
Lisa Dunavin, 2013
Caroline Nolen, 2013
Bert Sanders, 2013
Andy Sumlin, 2013
David S. Branch, 2012
Christopher R. McShane, 2012
John Raulet, 2010
John A. DeCouto, 2009
Norman Richie, 2009
W. Bryant Cornett, 2008
John T. Speros, 2007
G. Larry Wood, 2007
John R. Maddox, Jr., 2006
Lila Ann Graham, 2005
Pierre A. Perea, 2005
Alan Joel, 2004
John T. Speros, 2003
G. Larry Wood, 2003
Stanley B. Ashley, Jr., 2002
Ronald R. Wood, 2002
Robert O. Allen, 2001
William F. Law, 2001
Samuel D. Holmes, 2000
John D. Shlesinger, 2000
Kris J. Cooper, 1999
Thomas W. Miller, III, 1999
Robert T. Cooksey, 1998
Mark F. Christopher, 1997
David M. Demarest, 1997
Thomas L. Elsberry, 1996
Ronald G. Willingham, 1996
Charles P. Hood, 1995
Albert J. McConkey, 1995
John R. Maddox, Jr., 1994
James P. Jackson, 1993
Samuel G. Friedman, 1992
Jerome M. Mendel, 1992
W. Bruce Gallman, 1991
B.W. Cardwell, Jr., 1990
R.C. Plumlee, 1989
Robert M. Henritze, 1988
Pete Brignet, 1987
Charles Cobb, 1986
Charles H. Cowart, 1985
Jim Comer, 1980
Wilson W. McClure 1984
William B. Hare, 1983
J.P. Wilkin, 1982
Fred O. Scheer, 1981
Roy Scheer, 1981
Steve Gaultney, 1980
Larry G. Wood, 1979
Jack S. Griffin, 1978
E.A. Isakson, 1977
Dwight Raberg, 1977
William A. Bugg, Jr., 1976
William A. Bugg, Jr., 1975
Claude McGinnis, 1974
R.C. Plumlee, 1973
William F. Law, Jr., 1972
R.C. Plumlee, 1971
A.H. Sturgess, Jr., 1970
I.J. Kapplin, 1969
S.H. Newburger, 1969
Edw. A. Erbesfield, 1968
Fred C. McDonough, 1966
Bill Speir, 1965
Wiley S. Ansley, 1964
Bruce B. Wilson, 1963
Charles S. Ackerman, 1962
Don J. Davis, 1961
Dawson Owens, 1960
Sam Massell, Jr., 1959
Wm. A. Trotter, III, 1958
Sam Massell, Jr., 1957
Jack Gladin, 1956
Sam Massell, Jr., 1955
Allan Grayson Realty Co., 1955
Boyce Realty, 1955
Robert K. David, 1954
J. Dewitt Irwin, 1953
Tucker Realty Co., 1952
C.G. Thompson, 1951
J. Dewitt Irwin, 1949
Hal Campbell, 1948
Hal Campbell, 1947
J. Dewitt Irwin, 1946
D.W. Osborne, 1945
J. Dewitt Irwin, 1941
Hal Campbell, 1941
Kenmore Burns, Jr., 1940
Wall Realty Company, 1939
Forrest & Frank Adair, 1938
GAR, 1937
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