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Billie Redmond
Billie
Redmond is a native North Carolinian, growing up in the small textile
town of Eden. She is President of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark
Properties, a Raleigh-based property management, leasing and brokerage
services company. In June 2003, TradeMark Properties joined the
national affiliation network of Coldwell Banker Commercial and is the
largest woman-owned affiliate in the network, representing a variety of
asset and facility management clients. Today the Triangle Business
Journal ranks TradeMark as the largest commercial real estate firm
in the Triangle.
Her employment experience includes a marketing position at Edward Weck and Company in Research Triangle Park. She then joined with Don Walston and Alton Smith of Howard Perry & Walston Realty to form a commercial real estate company. Billie acquired majority ownership in 1994 and changed the name of the company to TradeMark Properties. TradeMark Properties represents a variety of asset and facility management clients, with Billie maintaining the corporate relationship directly with Coldwell Banker Howard Perry & Walston, Centrex Properties, and Plaza Associates. She is also a Managing Member of Occidental LLC, which acquired and renovated Raleigh’s historic Occidental Life Insurance Building. The building, which has now been renamed the Coldwell Banker Building, won the Triangle Business Journal’s SPACE Award in 2006 for the best redevelopment project in the Triangle.
Billie is active in a number of civic and charitable activities. Most recently she has been appointed co-chair of the Wake County Citizens’ Facilities Advisory Committee, an independent committee charged with evaluating the Wake county Public School System’s capital improvement programs as well as other County capital improvement programs. In 2006 she also received the Opening Doors Award from the Business and Professional Women/USA’s groups of Raleigh and the Triangle, for excellence in her career and making strides to open doors for women in the workplace.
In 2005, Billie was inducted into the YWCA’s Academy of Women for her efforts to empower women and eliminate racism. She is immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, where she served an unprecedented extended term. She serves on the Board of Directors of Communities in Schools of Wake County, the Kids'N Community Foundation, the Triangle Community Foundation, the Raleigh Area Development Authority, Paragon Commercial Bank, and the WakeMed Health and Hospital system. She is a member of Pleasant Grove Church.
Billie also serves on two advisory boards, one for KB Home and another for Coldwell Banker Commercial. In 2002-2003, Billie served on the Fayetteville Street Revisioning Committee and continues to serve on the Convention Center Steering Committee. She was previously a member of the Board of Directors for Research Triangle Regional Partnership, Triangle Family Services, North Carolina State University College of Humanities and Social Science and Wake Education Partnership. She has served on the Habitat for Humanity Board Development committee, YWCA Board Development committee, CIAA steering committee, and President of the Board of Directors for the Women's Center. She is currently an active member of the Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women chapter.
She has received the Triangle Business Journal’s Women in Business Award, been named to the Business Leader Impact list, and been named Tar Heel of the Week by The News & Observer, as well as being recognized as one of Business Leader Magazine’s Women Extraordinaire. Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties has been recognized in Metro Magazine’s Metro Bravo! Awards as being one of the top commercial real estate firms in the Triangle and has been named a Best Place to Work by Triangle Business Journal. In 2004 and 2005, Billie’s firm was named the top office in North Carolina by Coldwell Banker Commercial.
Billie resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, Kemp Harris, and has three children.