Wakefield Development Company Promotes Dawn Forrest to Director of Marketing

June 14, 2005 -- Wakefield Development Company of Raleigh has promoted Dawn Forrest to Director of Marketing. Dawn had previously worked with Wakefield as Director of Sales for Bedford at Falls River, one of Wakefield’s new home communities in the Triangle area.

“Dawn has been an integral part of Bedford and Wakefield’s success, and will serve as a valuable asset to the entire Wakefield Development team,” said John Myers, President of Wakefield Development Company.

As marketing director of Wakefield, Dawn will be responsible for management and coordination of marketing campaigns for Wakefield’s Triangle area developments. She has over 15 years of marketing experience.

Prior to joining Bedford and Wakefield Development, Dawn worked with the Triangle New Home Guide magazine as a Regional Market Manager. Prior to that she worked for Nestle Company for 10 years in the hotel division as Director of PR and Marketing in Orlando Florida. At Nestle she was Tournament Director for the PGA sanctioned Nestle Invitational at Bay Hill for six years of the 10 years.

For more information about Wakefield Development Company and its communities, call 919-556-4310 or email info@ wakedev.com.

Wakefield Development Company is the Triangle's largest developer of residential communities, with a portfolio that includes nearly 10,000 home sites. In addition to the 2004 NCHBA Community of the Year, Bedford at Falls River (www.BedfordTradition.com), the company has many other award winning communities communities under development across the Raleigh-Wake County market, including Wakefield Plantation (www.WakefieldPlantation.com), Eagle Ridge, Edgewater, Cornerstone, Delta Ridge and Twin Falls. Wakefield has also begun development of Mackintosh on the Lake, a new 612-acre community between I-85/I-40 and Lake Mackintosh in Burlington.