Our Team

RICK SKELTON, Town Founder & Developer

Rick Skelton has been in the real estate development, consulting and luxury sales business since 1989. He has 9 historic high-rise and warehouse adaptive re-use luxury condominium, apartment and mixed-use buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A sample of his recognition and awards are; first runner up for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce-Atlanta Business Chronicle Business Person of the year in 2000. He was named, “Whos Who” in commercial and residential real estate for Atlanta for 7 consecutive yrs. He has won over a dozen National Home Builder awards for his luxury historic loft condominium-apartments and Gulf Coast homes, including the Coastal Living Magazine show house of the year for 2007.

Inola Blue Ridge is owned by Inola Venture, LLC

Specialties: DEVELOPMENT EXPERTISE & GENERAL BUSINESS: Mixed use developments, multi-family development, hotel, senior living development, sourcing funding, real estate. finance, marketing and sales, distributed energy micro-grid & solar energy, historic and energy tax credits and incentives, adaptive re-use, viticulture, professional racing (driving, team ownership & automotive engineering and car development), land planning, condominium high-rise and historic, eco-development, new urbanism and resort expertise.