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James L. Williams originated Quality Group of Companies (QGC) in 1962 with a presence in the automobile industry. Chad L. Williams became the CEO in 1988 and began diversifying QGC into a multi-faceted organization with real estate development as the primary business. QGC entities include holdings of: commercial real estate, technology facilities and related managed services, office design and interiors and interests in the auto industry. QGC is now a nationally based, special use full-service developer. QGC has built a multi-state property portfolio around the development of special-use turnkey facilities. One of its signature projects is the Western Archeological and Conservations Center (WACC) in Tucson, Arizona. This was a build-to-suit lease for the National Park Service. It's one of the country's only archival storage facilities constructed with all of the most recent national archival storage standards implemented by NARA. The WACC facility houses over four million artifacts for the National Park Service and this transaction was the first government lease that Moody's had extended an AAA investment grade rating. The QGC Facilities Management Group fully operates and maintains the WACC facility. In 2003, QGC began the acquisition of Tier 2 and higher data/colocation centers with the strategy to build a national presence for providing this type of highly secured, highly redundant facilities. The 2005 purchase of e^deltacom continues to grow the national footprint of space at the same time launching a managed service company to provide services to all six of its national data centers. QGC currently employs approximately 225 people nationally and owns/operates/manages in excess of 2 million square feet of special use facilities in seven states with a market value exceeding half a billion dollars. | 