Zen-like developer covets stimulating projects

In a business that sometimes requires cutthroat tactics, James Brearley, with a non-conflict personality, has risen to the top.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. February 7, 2020
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Mark Wemple. Sarasota-based developer James Brearley has undertaken a variety of projects in Florida over the past decade, including converting a gas station into a restaurant on Longboat Key.
Mark Wemple. Sarasota-based developer James Brearley has undertaken a variety of projects in Florida over the past decade, including converting a gas station into a restaurant on Longboat Key.
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Atlanta commercial real estate investor Jay Weaver needed some help leasing a 300,000-square-foot industrial park project, Peachtree Square, in 2004. Through his then-girlfriend, now wife, Weaver met James Brearley — a recent Georgia Tech grad who was an odd combination of laid back, chilled, Zen-like philosopher and ambitious, focused, goal-oriented nascent developer.   

 

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