TCC general contractors has built more than 45 new homes on Lake Martin. It all started in 2007 when Derryl Thomas of Thomas Construction Company called Marbury McCullough, who was fresh out of Auburn University with his civil engineering diploma, and asked if McCullough was interested in buying out his Lake Martin home building company. Thomas said he was ready to retire and go fishing.

“I will never forget having my first job and dream job with Brasfield and Gorrie; and then, getting a phone call from Derryl,” McCullough recalled. “It was such an honor that he would think of me and yet a huge leap of faith to leave a steady job in 2007.”