Street Named New Trustee for Alabama Real Estate Center at UA; Five Other Trustee Appointments Renewed

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — John “Chip” Street Jr., a second-generation builder/developer originally from Calhoun County, has been named to the regular board of trustees of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama. Street is owner of Street Residential Construction Inc.

Street, who earned his real estate degree from UA in 1982, is the 2009 president of the Home Builders Association of Alabama. For the past four years, he has served on the board of the Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders.

Street, who lives in Hoover, also is a life director of the board of the National Association of Home Builders.

Three other regular trustees were re-appointed. They are:

Meade Whitaker, a partner in Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP law firm and a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group;

Danny Sharp, broker of Coldwell Banker Commercial Alfred Saliba Realty;

Gary Donegan, administrator, The Alabama Housing Finance Authority.

Jim Andrews, president of Litho Publishing Company which publishes a number of real estate directories, was renewed as an industry specific renewal, and Steve Cawthon, of Huntsville, a real estate broker with Century 21 Steele and Associates and a member of the Alabama Real Estate Commission, was named to replace Gordon Henderson as a special trustee whose term recently expired.