OCTOBER 2026

DoItWithTruitt.Com

Man, we are really getting into fall now and I am loving it!

I can't say thanks enough to everyone for their support for all we are doing at TRUITT WORLD HQ. We truly appreciate everyone who is a client, radio listener, sponsor, friend, website visitor, social follower, etc.

We love you!

Tony Truitt

We are growing again and trying something new.

Not everyone is on social media so we are about to send out the first-ever TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT | ALABAMA NEWSLETTER to give our friends in the construction industry some more recognition about the great projects they have going on.

We have not done this before but I think it is a great time to test the waters as we continue building our brand. If you like what we are doing with our newsletter, jump on board and join us as a sponsor.

And we are looking to double that + cross promote to radio, social, etc. Let's talk.

We have been having a lot of fun with all the things that have been rolling our way this year.

I think all of us at TRUITT WORLD HQ agree it has been great doing what we do, but we have had so much fun learning about and talking about what you do.

Thank you for the continued trust and support.

Keep up the great work!

Let's close out 2026 strong! Let us know if we can help.

Georgetown University (Washington DC): Daniel and Mara O'Day have a made a $10m gift to the school to establish the O'Day Family Scholarship Fund, which will enable first-generation students who receive the scholarship to attend Georgetown free of cost.

United States Sports University (Daphne, AL): They are the first university in the U.S. to receive the international Ethos Universitas recognition from the PCU Committee of Panathlon International. USSU is committed to advancing sports education, research and professional development.

The University of Louisiana Lafayette Rajun' Cajuns Water Ski Team is a dynsaty!

They just claimed their 7th consecutive Division I national title, bringing their overall total to 13 championships.

The University of South Florida has broken ground on the $500m first phase of Uptown Landing, a mixed-use project including student housing, retail & restaurant space, a hotel and conference center; and academic research facilities. Uptown Landing will be within walking distance of the new $350m-ish football stadium that will be open next season.

Florida International University has 5 projects under construction across campus with six more in design. Big plans to become a Top 30 Public University by 2030.

Construction is almost done on the new, fantastic-looking, Smith Family Center for the Performing Arts at The University of Alabama. Shows are scheduled to begin Spring 2027. Great job by M.J. Harris Construction putting this beautiful facility together.

Harold Hamm just made the largest gift in the 136-year history of the University of Oklahoma, when he pledged $150,000,000 to the school last month.

Dark Bowling Green Metallic is a rare factory paint color that joined Corvette's lineup in 2000 but was only offered for 2 model years?

We love working with contractors on their bond needs and would welcome an opportunity to be your bond agent.

We work everyday on providing fast-service and to help make you more competitive.

Email me and let's see if we can't build something fantastic together: tony@truittinsurance.com.

We hope everyone has an awesome Halloween, but the truth is, a lot of folks have already been ghosted by their insurance agent. This has happened as the private equity-backed, national brokers have acquired pretty much all of our area's locally-owned agents.

Except Us. And it can be hard to get the big-guys' attention...but, not ours.

If you are not happy with what you are getting with the national brokers, DO IT WITH TRUITT! Give Truitt Insurance & Bonding a call. Come feel the warm embrace of locally owned Team Truitt! (205)254-3005.

We are proud to be a Family-Business, based in Alabama., Licensed Almost Everywhere and Built by Small Business Owners. We would love to call you a client.

Football season is pushing forward - the regular season is already over half gone.

While basically all 134 FBS teams still have some theoretical shot at making the 12 team playoff, most experts have it down now to somewhere around 18 teams (or less) with a realistic path forward.

Whatever happens, it's going to be crazy.

CHECK US OUT!

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We're having fun and working hard to keep making things better.

If you like our newsletter and our radio show, you will probably like our website.

We learned recently of the passing of our friend & long-time staff member Don Adams. Don was just such a nice guy.

He ran. A.A. Adams & Company, which was founded in 1888, before merging in with us at Truitt back in 2002.

Don retired several years ago but always came by to see us.

Rest easy, Don. We will miss you.

WELCOME ABOARD Keshia & Ian! Glad to have you on our team.

Condolences to Dr. Chris Walker on the recent passing of his father, Don Walker.

If you like seeing what is getting built out there, keep an eye out for my TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORTS at DoItWithTruitt.com & my LinkedIn page.

Here's what we have coming up:

• October 22, 2026 | Louisiana
• October 27, 2026 | Southeast
• October 29, 2026 | Texas
• October 30, 2026 | Alabama
• November 3, 2026 | Georgia
• November 5, 2026 | Carolinas

It's Campaign Season And We Say Elect Us As Your Agent.

BASED IN ALABAMA BUT LICENSED ALMOST EVERYWHERE!

Give us a call at (205)254-3005 and put us to work.

The Memphis Grizzlies are valued at over $4,000,000,000 for the first time in franchise history according to Forbes. This ranks them 30th in NBA team value!

The Warbler Hotel in New Orleans has opened as another awesome place to stay there. It is a new, 6-story 58-key boutique property in the Garden District that looks awesome. Check out www.thewarblerhotel.com for more info. Can't wait to stay there.

Nirvana's "Nevermind" just passed AC/DC's "Back In Black" on the Top 10 Selling Albums of all time list. "Nevermind" now sits at No. 6 with over 66,838,000 copies sold. Amazing.

Motley Crue has lined up another residency in Las Vegas with shows at Caesar's Palace starting March 19th and ending April 3.

Congrats to the Tivoli Theatre in Chattanooga on recently opening its doors to show off the major restoration & renovation it has been undergoing. I bet it is awesome.

United Airlines has opened its new Terminal B North Concourse at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

Plans for a Big Mike's Steakhouse in Northport continue to move forward. Big get if that gets done.

Hotel Margo has opened in Pensacola. This is kind of cool as it is a reimaging of a 45-room motel in the downtown area as a boutique property with a lot of cool vibes. Looking forward to checking it out.

PropertyCasualy360 has reported there have been over 47,000 claims filed so far relating to Hurricane Isaias coming to see us on October 9th. Damage estimates on insured losses are at $582m at this point. Moody's best estimate is the Category 2 Storm will end up costing insurance companies in the $3.5b range when all is said and done.

South Alabama men's basketball has been picked to finish 4th in the Sun Belt Conference as we start the 2026/2027 season.

SpaceX is investing $100b+ to build a spaceport facility, that will be know as Starbase Louisiana (how cool is that?!) in Vermilion Parish, LA.

The Waterway Village Pedestrian Bridge in Gulf Shores is now expected to open in March 2027 instead of January. It is still going to be awesome. Can't wait.

The Truitt Family has been busted up this week with the passing of Taz Truitt.

Taz was John Truitt's favorite thing for the past 13 years and was a fantastic companion.

We all miss that little joker but appreciate the love he gave us all while he was here.

"The Sales Department is not the whole company, but the whole company better be the Sales Department."

-- Philip Kotler --

Truitt World HQ and all Truitt outposts are going to be closed for the following days during the upcoming holidays:

THANKSGIVING:

NOV 25: Closing at 2pm

NOV 26: Closed

NOV 27: Closed

CHRISTMAS

DEC 23: Closing at 3pm

DEC 24: Closed

DEC 25: Closed

NEW YEAR'S

DEC 31, 2026: Closed

JAN 1, 2027: Closed

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Hancock Construction is working on the new ZoZo's restaurant off Hwy 31 in Hoover.

Robins & Morton celebrated the ribbon-cutting of their 3-story, 46,500 square foot, North Mississippi Medical Center Crossover Medical Plaza project in Tupelo.

Doyle Construction has been selected by GBT Realty to build their new 300,000 square foot shopping center, The Crossroads of Gallatin, outside Nashville. This is the largest shopping center developed in the Metro-Nashville area in more than a decade.

BL Harbert International is building the 28-story VOCE Hotel & Residences in Nashville's West End.

Birmingham's Arlington Construction Services is building the Fairhaven Glen multi-family development in Charlotte.

R.C. Mathews Construction continues work on The CORD at Belmont University in Nashville (current residence of the Truitt boys).

Bradford Building Company has delivered the new Academy Sports & Outdoors in Gardendale. The grand opening is imminent.

Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game over the entirety of his 14-year professional basketball career?

If you sleep in and miss ourTRUITT NEWS RADIO show, it's ok.

You can always grab the podcast version. It's available at most of the major sites. We are now over 19,250 downloads and are excited to see it keep growing little by little each week.

October 2, 2021: Protective Stadium opens in Birmingham with the UAB Blazers taking on the Liberty Flames. I was at that one!

October 4, 1969: First nationally televised college football game broadcast from Legion Field when The University of Alabama took on Ole Miss.

October 12, 1979: Chris Ford with the Celtics hits the first 3-pointer in NBA History in a game against the Houston Rockets. That was also Larry Bird's first regular season game in his NBA Career.

October 22, 1948: In-N-Out Burger opens its first location.

October 22, 1993: Dave Matthews Band playing at Louie Louie in Birmingham.

October 23, 1970: Bob Hope was playing Auburn's Memorial Coliseum.

October 27, 1913: President Woodrow Wilson visited Mobile, giving a speech at the Lyric Theatre. He stayed at the Battle House Hotel.

October 31, 1864: North Dakota became a state.

A group of owls is called a parliament?

I say it every month and mean it...one of my favorite things we do is deliver a cake to the Ronald McDonald House here in Birmingham.

We hope it helps people feel at home while they are staying there during their kids' medical care in our local hospitals.

Also, big shout-out to Edible Memories by Lorraine in Steele, AL for always doing such a fantastic job on these cakes. She is amazing!

GIVE ME A CALL AT TRUITT WORLD HQ:

(205)254-3005

We love Small Business Owners Because We Are One, Too!

If you haven't seen our HIGH-FIVE FRIDAYS or TUESDAYS WITH TONY posts, give them a look below and see who is getting a shout-out (and let us know what you are up to so we can include it in the future).

If we ever forget to say it, please know how much we appreciate you trusting us as a partner. We are going to do everything we can to keep getting better across the board.

We are far from perfect but are working hard to close that gap every day.

• If we do something good, that is what we are supposed to do.
• If we do something bad, please tell me so we can fix it.

Keep doing great stuff.

- Tony Truitt -

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