Wylie CONNECTION Magazine - December 20 / January 21

Since becoming involved in the community in 2018 and moving its corporate offices to Wylie, McClure Partners has been responsible for relocating and opening more than half a dozen new businesses in town.

“Wylie is a wonderful part of the Metroplex that appealed to us to because of its people, its value system, and its way of life,” said John McClure, Vice President of McClure Partners.

McClure Partners was looking for development opportunities in Collin County for one of its brand partners, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers.

“After performing our retail demand site analysis models and spending a lot of windshield time driving, we discovered the corner of FM 544 and Regency in Wylie,” John said. “The challenge here was there was no median break for westbound traffic to access the site and there was not enough capacity in the current storm system design for this development.”

McClure was able to partner with the Wylie Economic Development Corporation and work with city of Wylie staff to assemble the four lots, secure a median break through the Texas Department of Transportation, and install more than 400 linear feet of off-site storm sewer.

That “enabled us to develop what is now Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, a barbecue restaurant, Wylie Dentistry, Posh Nail Salon and Inverness Pharmacy,” John said.

Finding a lot and making it into a vibrant business area – “taking a raw piece of land and turning into a greatlooking commercial building from scratch” – is one of the things McClure Partners likes best to do.

McClure’s services include general contracting, development, land planning, tenant representation, and many others. “We are a one-stop shop that can handle it all,” according to Charles A. McClure, chair of the company’s board.

Full-service development includes feasibility studies, site selection, underwriting and acquisition, financing and loan negotiations, architectural and contractor selection and negotiation, permitting and zoning, accounting and reporting, development and construction management, and move-in coordination.

Charles and his mom, Frances L. McClure, incorporated McClure Partners Jan. 2, 1975, in Abilene as a residential real estate company. Charles holds numerous designations and honors including being a Certified Commercial Investment Member and a Counselors of Real Estate member. He is a senior instructor for the CCIM Institute, an instructor and lecturer for the North Texas CCIM Chapter and numerous other CCIM Chapters in the U.S. (CCIM is commercial real estate’s global standard for professional achievement, according to the organization.)

In 2009, Charles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) in London, receiving the highest Fellow designation under the group’s eminence program.

He is a past president of the Abilene Board of Realtors where he received a Realtor of the Year award; a past regional vice president of the Texas Association of Realtors; a former trustee of the Texas Real Estate Political Action Committee; and a life member of the Realtors Political Action Committee. He was the 2009 International President of the CCIM Institute.

A nationally recognized speaker on commercial and investment real estate and an author of several articles for various real estate publications, Charles – known as Mac – earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University and a master’s degree from Hardin Simmons University. Both degrees are in management and finance.

“Our firm is run by professionals in the commercial real estate industry from the disciplines of tenant representation, landlord representation, property management, and consulting,” Mac said. “Our firm also is a development company and general contractor with over 45 years’ experience.”

McClure Partners has represented the eight largest pension funds in America including GE Capital, New York State Teachers, Commonfund, Stanford University endowment fund, and the State of Alaska permanent fund. “Our development company has done over $250 million of commercial construction, and our brokerage arm has completed over $1 billion in transactions,” Mac said.

Mac’s wife, Susan McClure, is president of the company. She specializes in representing tenants and landlords in lease negotiations for product types that include office, industrial, and flex and retail space assignments. She holds numerous professional distinctions and is a senior instructor in CCIM’s 101 core course (financial analysis for commercial real estate).

She spent 27 years as a broker with Cushman & Wakefield and has held several leadership positions with CCIM Institute and the North Texas CCIM Chapter.

Susan is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women, the National Association of Realtors, the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and a graduate of Dallas Leadership. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration and history from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Mac and Susan’s son, John, is the company’s vice president. He specializes in site selection and demographic studies, all phases of entitlement and permitting, and construction and project management.

He has been licensed as a broker by the Texas Real Estate Commission and also holds the CCIM designation. John is a member of the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors, International Council of Shopping Centers and the CCIM North Texas Chapter. He has previously served as president of the North Texas CCIM Chapter and is currently a regional vice president for the CCIM Institute.

He is the current chairman of the board for the Wylie Chamber of Commerce. He has been on the chamber board of directors since 2018.

John has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management degree from Baylor University. He and his wife, Mary, have one daughter, 10-year-old Lila, and two sons, 7-year-old Luke and 4-year-old Sam.

“We find that our family is very close. Charles A. McClure Sr., one of our original directors, always said if you can’t trust your family, you can never trust anyone,” John said. “We are very proud of our professional reputation which we have spent years developing. And we are enjoying doing business and meeting the people in Wylie.” •