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I Am Also A Pulliam. The Nice of My Late Uncle Winston Walden Pulliam. Opinions are one thing. Please Respect My Late Uncle And Family members.!.Rich or Poor we’re All Equal in Gods eyes.
MY Great Uncle
This is MY Family that we are talking about here
My uncle has worked very hard his life wasn’t easy but he turned it around into good..stop complaining ñ turn your own life around..just because he has money he still has a heart..
I just love Asheville! All the not so wonderful people griping about sprawl and all. Franchises! Business! Oh my!
There are just too many places to spend the ol’ welfare and Social Securty checks when not staying near the homestead to week out the pot pacth or stuff envelopes for the cult.
If it weren’t for developers, well, I guess we’d have even more to complain about. At least something more than a concrete bridge and an attempt to thank someone for helping the community.
Absolutely nuts to name a bridge after a real estate developer. An insult to all of the hundreds of other really worthy human beings who would deserve the honor. Start with any deceased cop, fireman, teacher, coach or real community volunteer and pick a name randomly. That would make more sense. Real estate developers do what they do for one reason and one reason. Money.
I rented from Winston Pulliam for 4 years in a South Asheville shopping center and he is a great person! Winston gave me and many other small businesses a chance when no one in downtown Asheville would. He was always fair and a geniune person.
South Asheville would not be what it is without Winston’s help! I for one think it’s a great thing that finally a bridge is named after someone who did so much for the people instead of a politician like Mumpower.
We can gladly thank Mr. Pulliam for Hendersonville Rd. With out his vision it would not look like Tunnel Rd or any of the other horrid streetscapes of modern America. I a so glad that we named a bridge for him. Mumpower’s vote against this makes him more and more likely the only member of council with a pulse.
Ash, thanks for asking this question. My husband and I drove under it a few weeks ago, and we were both incredulous. Like Dean said, thanks to Pulliam Properties Hendersonville Rd looks like Chain Town, USA; however, it is worse than Patton Ave as it has virtually no sidewalks.
Pulliam… aside from real estate development and turning South Asheville into "anywhere, USA" it’s a mystery.
Traveling south of Biltmore now is almost as bad as Patten Avenue. Ugly, franchise, anywhere.
Too bad they couldn’t name a culvert after him.
Winston Pulliium is solely responsible for South Asheville’s development. He has helped many local business in S. Asheville get started. He is one of those guys who quitely has done more for Asheville than any other business person I can think of. He also is a mentor to other business owners like Jan Davis. So why the bridge over I-40, he was born and grew up less than a mile frrom it, started his first business less than a mile from it, so that is the reason. It’s unfortunate his son is Rusty, he is dirty.
http://www.buncombecounty.org/GOVERNING/commissioners/ArchivedAgenda/20080513/web_PDF/winstonpulliambridge.pdf
http://www.pulliamproperties.com/agents.php?content=winston
He also as donated to Shuler and Guilliani. What a combo!
From Pulliam Properties Web site:
Pulliam Properties’ development of South Asheville started with one man.
As an entrepreneur during the 1960s, Winston Pulliam began to acquire land, parcel by parcel, between Biltmore Village and the Henderson County line, rightly forecasting the undeveloped region that would soon become the fastest growing area of Asheville/Buncombe County.
When Winston established Executive Realty in 1982, his foresight paid off. It was when his son Rusty took ownership in 1993, that the company’s holdings burgeoned into top-tier commercial properties positioned along what is now the booming corridor between Asheville and Hendersonville. In 1999, Rusty changed the company name to “Pulliam Properties” and moved its corporate offices into the Walden Ridge Professional Park. This move further distinguished Pulliam as a community leader. In 2002, Rusty Pulliam became the only real estate developer in Western North Carolina ever to receive Quality Forward’s Environmental Excellence Award, the highest environmental quality award in the region.