Owner, contractor
Residential rehabilitation and renovation, Mobile, Alabama, founded 1975.
North Star Group
Commercial and industrial real estate origination and development
North Star identifies, investigates, controls, entitles, and advances sites for logistics and related commercial uses. Its work combines founder-led development experience, national site screening, engineering coordination, preliminary site planning, cost analysis, and project formation.
Evidence
Experience
Five decades in construction, real estate, development, brokerage, and investment.
National retail work
Five Walmart site-selection and entitlement assignments, with additional work for CVS, Walgreens, Wendy's, Captain D's, Starbucks, and other retailers.
Major redevelopment
Technical partner for the redevelopment of the approximately 400,000-square-foot Huntsville Mall.
Innovation
Eleven issued U.S. patents arising primarily from oilfield heating and fluid-management systems.
Logistics operations
Experience in moving operations, dispatch, drivers, interstate authority, pricing, recruiting, and carrier data.
Current systems
Operating software for site screening, development workflow, carrier intelligence, and driver recruiting.
Current Operating Capabilities
Screens from the software itself, not descriptions of it.
Built and in internal use
iVerify
National market and site-screening system for logistics real estate - screens every U.S. market and candidate site by buildable area, demand signals, and peer-cohort grading.
iVerify national market screen
Built and in internal use
iDevelop
Development workflow and project controls - component-priced proforma and deal-logic modeling for each candidate site (formerly modular.nsgia.com).
iDevelop deal-logic screen
Operating business
ProHRHQ / Carrier Intelligence
CDL driver recruiting and a carrier intelligence system built on an FMCSA data warehouse - 24 Socrata datasets, refreshed monthly, approximately 4.4 million carrier records with derived grading.
ProHRHQ carrier list
Also built and in internal use
iPlacer - site investigation and placement workflowBuilt and in internal use
iSitePlan - preliminary site-planning toolsBuilt and in internal use
iPlan - planning and document-production systemBuilt and in internal use
Completed and Historical Work
Hoffman Brothers Contracting
Five Walmart Supercenter assignments
Broker, site-selection and entitlement
Site-selection and entitlement work across Alabama, part of a broader national Walmart rollout program, 1990s-2008.
CVS, Walgreens, Wendy's, Captain D's, Starbucks, and other retail and restaurant sites
Broker, developer
National retail and restaurant site development following the five Walmart assignments.
Huntsville Mall redevelopment
Technical partner (three-person team)
Construction management and remediation for the approximately 400,000-square-foot Huntsville Mall redevelopment.
Anniston department-store redevelopment
Developer
Redevelopment of a 50,000-square-foot department store in Anniston, Alabama, used as a base of operations for roughly a decade.
Dragon Wagon oilfield heating system
Inventor, manufacturer
Patented oilfield heating system (with a companion cooling system on the same design) built and sold commercially for several years through Hydra Heating Industries, LLC, before manufacturing-quality problems at the factory ended production.
Active Work
Eagles Flock
Status: Predevelopment advanced to submission readiness: the City of Hattiesburg planning department is ready to receive the floodplain development submission
FEMA no-rise engineering on the Leaf River, HEC-RAS models obtained through public records, site-plan pathway worked through the planning department and city attorney
Eagles Flock district boundary map
Q-Plex
Status: Advisory engagement
Zoning, construction methods, and project economics review for the developer's plan
iPlan
Status: Live - investor presentation for the logistics platform
National screen, pilot site architecture, economics, and the investor document library
iDevelop
Status: In production use
Component-priced proforma and project control platform (formerly modular.nsgia.com)
Aburi
Status: Documentation system in use
Spatial plan documentation for large-scale developments
Dry-Stack Brick
Status: Patent pending
Interlocking brick - the shape is the laying pattern, sheds water without mortar
MapArea
Status: Built and working
Offline PWA running on the GPS chip alone, for field work without connectivity
Modular
Status: In production use (now idevelop.nsgia.com)
Component-priced proforma and development analysis platform
Carrier Intelligence
Status: Live
Hoffman Report - structured carrier profiles combining identity, authority, safety, inspection, and market context
Motor Carrier Directory
Status: Live
Directory of rated motor carriers, each a standalone report
ATS
Status: Applicant tracking fragmented across spreadsheets and email
Integrated applicant tracking with automated workflows and compliance documentation
Grants Portal
Status: Operating grant-services tool
Systems integration approach - technical, financial, and implementation understanding combined for fundability
Proposed or Developmental Work
CityPlan Ghana
Status: Soft site control secured by joint-venture agreement with the traditional authority for a proposed 553-acre healthcare and education district
Master development agreement, presentation materials, and development library produced
Ghana - 16 regions, Eastern Region site context
Africatown
Status: Concept stage
Education path concept - earn while learning, trade credentials, international work eligibility
Enugu Nigeria
Status: Concept stage
Educational center development concept with grant funding strategy
Albany Georgia
Status: Concept stage
MRB-based workforce housing structure with PHA partnership
Serenity
Status: Concept stage
Housing cost synthesis - 24V lighting, SIPs, passive cooling, shared infrastructure
Farm Verify (legacy iVerify)
Status: Concept stage
GPS mapping device plus pesticide control pathway and blockchain transactions for EUDR smallholder compliance
Rain Gardens
Status: Concept stage
Edible rain gardens - stormwater compliance plus food production and jobs in a single integrated proposal (90% fundable)
Site assessment, zoning analysis, highest-and-best-use determination. Funding options include conventional loans, tax credits, grants, and public-private partnerships.
Approval sequencing—zoning, site plan, environmental, building permits. Construction approaches that reduce cost and timeline.
North Star Laboratory
Tools and systems developed in support of project work.
Companion
Persistent AI companion with episodic memory — remembers residents across conversations