Developer Jeff Blackard ended up at the head of his own business because of adversity. Blackard had come to Dallas and landed a job in development in the early 1980s. Blackard started in the development business because it was what he liked, and what his family had done back in Illinois.
The savings-and-loan debacle and the Dallas real estate crash led him out on his own. Now, as president of the Blackard Group Inc., he's developing Adriatica, a 45-acre community in McKinney complete with its own winery.
"It's purely a passion project. Hopefully it will make money," Blackard said
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