TL Stewart Builders, Inc. is an established family-owned building business. Terry Stewart and his wife Sandra Holt Stewart, have lived in Sanford and have been building Homes to Believe In since 1984. They have developed Carter’s Grove, Hampton Ponds, and Brighton Park among others and have built numerous homes in the exclusive Governors Club in Chatham County and Forest Creek in Moore County and a lovely mountain home located off the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Boone, Fork Camp area just outside of Blowing Rock, NC. Their newest development know as Carbonton Cove, is located off Carbonton road in Sanford, North Carolina.
Terry Stewart
Founder, President
Terry earned a BS degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1976 and five years later obtained his North Carolina Builder’s License. Prior to forming TL Stewart Builders in 1984, Terry gained valuable experience working in the City of Sanford’s Engineering Department for several years. The experience gained from working in the engineering department assisted in the development of some exceptional neighborhoods such as Carters Grove, Brighton Park, and Hampton Ponds all located in the Westlake Valley area of Sanford. TL Stewart Builders has partnered with Arthur A. James III and David James, AIA to develop Sanford’s newest neighborhood Carbonton Cove. Carbonton Cove consists of 48 lots and located on Carbonton Road just east of Highway # 42.
Sandra Stewart
Vice President/Secretary
Sandra attended the University of North Carolina and received a BA degree in Education in 1977. After graduating from college, Sandra taught school for three years. Then in 1980 began a ladies and men’s retail-clothing boutique. After starting a family and having two businesses in one family, Sandra decided to sell the retail business and joined TL Stewart Builders in 1990. Sandra comes from a family of business people, her grandfather, WM Holt, Sr. started Holt Truck and Tractor in 1921. Sandra’s father WM Holt Jr. oversaw the business until it eventually closed in 2000,due to the diminishing of the agricultural business, in the Lee County area. Holt Truck and Tractor was located on Horner Boulevard where Kerr Drugs is currently.
