When a General Contractor Takes a Big Risk

Mark Williamson

ATLANTA—Last year Georgia led the world in feature film production. The rise of the film industry in the state has lots of tentacles beyond stars, famous directors and big-budget blockbusters. One such story is Randolph Williamson, a Peachtree City, GA-based construction company that had plenty of expertise in building hotels and medical office buildings before Hollywood took notice of Georgia and its attractive film incentives.

Now, as general contractor at Pinewood Atlanta Studios, Randolph Williamson is  building sound stages, catwalks, gantries and systems that make it rain indoors. That new set of skills has earned the company four more studio projects that are in pre-construction phase. GlobeSt.com caught up with Mark Williamson, to gauge how he landed the deal in part one of this exclusive interview.