S. Grey Folkes

S. Grey Folkes, Jr., PE is a 1977 graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He received his Professional Engineering license in 1982. He has been an esteemed business leader in the Hampton Roads area since 1984 when he purchased his father’s company, Hassell & Folkes, PC. Under his leadership, he grew the business to over 100 employees. As he was establishing Hassell & Folkes as a front runner in the surveying, engineering, and land planning field, he was able to start investing in residential development projects. He was a partner of one of the largest residential development companies in the late 1990s and early 2000s, developing over 2,000 residential housing lots in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.

Through these business relationships, his investing interests and opportunities expanded into commercial property development, shopping center ownerships, self-storage facilities, hotels, apartment complexes, residential home building, C&D landfill, restaurants, outdoor recreation equipment supplier, indoor shooting range, private yacht, and aviation charters.

Grey has served on the boards of Old Dominion Athletics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Boy Scouts of America, Chesapeake Chamber of Commerce, State of Virginia Transportation Board, Towne Bank Chesapeake (founding member). He has been a member of the Chesapeake Rotary Club and on the Tidewater Builders Association Board.

Site analysis, land use analysis, comprehensive planning and zoning, drainage/hydrology, storm system design, sewage collection/disposal systems, transportation corridor site, utility planning, and mapping, hydrology, water distribution systems, and pavement design.