// About + Timeline since 2006 const About = () => { const events = [ { year: '2006', city: 'Savannah, GA', title: 'Founded', body: 'Palmetto Build Group opens on Factors Walk with three staff and a single ground-up boutique hotel contract on Tybee Island.' }, { year: '2009', city: 'Amelia Island, FL', title: 'First Florida project', body: 'Cross-border expansion with a spa and amenity addition to an established Gulf resort. First CCCL-permitted build.' }, { year: '2012', city: 'Hilton Head, SC', title: 'Second office opens', body: 'Hilton Head office opens to serve the Lowcountry resort corridor. Headcount reaches 22.' }, { year: '2015', city: 'Savannah, GA', title: 'First live-hotel PIP', body: 'Flag-brand PIP completed at full occupancy. The methodology now formalized as our Live-Hotel Construction practice.' }, { year: '2018', city: 'Naples, FL', title: 'Naples regional office', body: 'Gulf Coast expansion. Third office opens to cover Naples, Marco, and the Keys.' }, { year: '2021', city: 'Firm-wide', title: '$1B threshold', body: 'Cumulative construction value managed crosses $1B. Staff of 64 across three offices.' }, { year: '2024', city: 'Kiawah, SC', title: 'Soft-brand conversion', body: '248-key flag conversion delivered at 71% occupancy. Zero measurable revenue loss against trailing baseline.' }, { year: '2026', city: 'FL · GA · SC', title: 'Today', body: 'Eleven projects on-site across the corridor. Hospitality-only mandate unchanged since founding.' }, ]; return (
── (06) · Studio

A firm built
on one trade.

Palmetto was started on a simple premise: hotels are not like other buildings, and the people who build them shouldn't pretend they are.

For eighteen years we have turned that premise down — declining office parks, medical facilities, and the adjacent commercial work that most general contractors chase between hospitality cycles. The refusal is what made the expertise.

Today our staff of 72 operates from three offices on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Every principal has twenty years of hospitality-exclusive experience. Every project manager is brand-trained by at least one major flag.

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{k}
{v}
))}
{/* Timeline */}
── 2006 → Present
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