The Smyrna Business Association named Gina Bridges, a Keller Williams Real Estate agent, as its 2015 “Business Person of the Year” at the monthly lunch meeting at the Smyrna Community Center.
A resident of Smyrna for more than 30 years, Ms. Bridges was named to the Coldwell Banker Hall of Fame from 1996 to 2003, earned the Phoenix Award in 2000 and has been a Keller Williams top agent for the past 12 years. She serves on the board of Keep Smyrna Beautiful and is a founding member of her church.
Nancy Misita, last year’s honoree, introduced Ms. Bridges and recounted her entry into real estate. “Moving to Smyrna over 30 years ago, long before there were parks on every corner and a great family athletic association, when the only thing in Smyrna was the Jonquil Plaza, when our Business Person of the Year, decided to become a real estate agent.
“Always being Smyrna’s Champion in the real estate community. Leading the way by telling customers, Smyrna is the place to live.”
She started by selling homes in her neighborhood of Cedar Cliffs. She did it so well that the joke in the subdivision is, she has sold each home four times. Selling homes only five miles from her front door, she was in the Coldwell Banker Hall of Fame from 1996 to 2003, earned the Phoenix Award in 2000 and has been a Keller Williams top agent for the past 12 years. She takes such good care of her customers that she has a huge referral business.
She has been on the board of Keep Smyrna Beautiful for more than seven years and she heads up the kitchen for the “Smyrna Garden Tour,” donating most of the refreshments and flyers.
She serves as chairman of Adopt-a- Mile, not only promoting it, but she and her husband have an adopted mile on Atlanta Road, that they maintain.
Every year she and her husband have “The Pumpkin Patch,” providing free pumpkins to the children living in Smyrna and Vinings. A family tradition started by having friends and family deliver pumpkins to neighbors and customers. The group of friends and customers became so large that it has become a fall event.
She and her husband, Ken Holewinski, have two grown children.
From the September 2015 issue of The Bright Side, Cobb County Georgia’s Newspaper covering Smyrna, Vinings, Mableton, Powder Springs and Austell, GA.
