Windsor Stevens

Windsor Stevens is a development firm with strategic focus on transit-oriented development (TOD). Our strategic focus aims to create a vibrant, walkable and livable urban community close to mass transit. Windsor Stevens mixed-use developments include a long list of desirable lifestyle amenities that enhance the multi-family residential choice. Our criteria for site selection will be primarily focused on TOD opportunities. To further ensure the success of the development projects, our site selection will also considers proximity to job clusters such as major airports, office and educational campus and medical centers.

Our Vision

To develop economic, social and environmental sustainable communities that are respectful of the local cultural traditions while moving humanity forward.

Guiding Principles

• Commitment to excellence and utmost integrity in the conduct of our business either externally with our clientele or internally with our employees and consultants working on behalf of the firm.
• Observe a consistent and persistent attitude towards a given task while challenging a status quo by way of instituting creative and practical solutions.

The company name, Windsor Stevens, first belonged to a 19th Century Georgia entrepreneur from whom Rod Mullice is descended seven generations on his mother’s paternal side. Born enslaved in Liberty County, GA, Windsor Stevens was so trusted and industrious that he managed to amass a significant private herd of livestock even before Emancipation. He started with a flock of chickens, then began to trade up into larger and more valuable livestock, including hogs, cows and horses. Over a period of 20 years, Windsor Stevens performed paid work beyond his slave labor on the plantation. He used his earnings to buy livestock and bartered it to increase his holdings. He bought a four-year-old horse so that he could visit his wife 18 miles away, records show.

When the Union Army arrived in Liberty County in 1864, Windsor Stevens, then a free man as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation fed the soldiers and washed their clothes. Slowly, the soldiers began confiscating his property: first the horses, then, later, other stock, slaughtering some of the hogs on-site before carrying them away to feed the troops.

Windsor Stevens did not object at the time the soldiers took his horses and hogs because he understood their presence as a necessary act of freedom for his people. After the war ended, at 50 years of age he enrolled in a Freedmen’s Bureau school to learn to read and write – a right denied to enslaved people during the antebellum period.

Not long afterwards, he filed a claim for compensation from the U.S. government for confiscation of his property by Union soldiers. In the claim, he listed two horses, seven hogs and 28 stock hogs, valued at a total of $509. He presented testimony from three witnesses who vouched that he owned the property at the time of confiscation.

In 1876, the U.S. government approved $266 of the claim to Windsor Stevens for his losses.

On his father’s side of the family, Rod Mullice is a descendant of Plymouth Frazier, Sr. born enslaved in 1820 in Liberty County, Georgia. Plymouth Frazier’s property was also seized by Union soldiers during the Civil War and he filed a claim which was subsequently denied on a technicality. His son, Plymouth Frazier, Jr. appealed the decision for non-consideration of his father’s claim. The case was heard before the 60th Congress during its congressional proceedings and debates and Plymouth Frazier, Jr. was awarded $122 on behalf of Plymouth Frazier, Sr.’s estate.

Rod Mullice honors the entrepreneurial drive and courage of his family lineage by naming his company to honor his forefathers, who overcame significant challenges to achieve personal fulfillment and honor.