A Look at the 2020 UNC Tar Heels' Recruiting Class

Samuel Brice Hall leverages more than two decades of financial oversight experience to serve as director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity, LLC, in Atlanta, Georgia. An alumnus of the University of North Carolina (UNC), Samuel Brice Hall enjoys following the school's basketball team in his free time.

The Tar Heels faced a difficult challenge recruiting for the 2020 season, with half of the roster leaving via transfer, graduation, or the NBA Draft. Nonetheless, UNC recruited six highly regarded incoming freshman and have the number two recruiting class among all NCAA Division I teams, according to 247Sports. The website ranked Kentucky number one, but UNC had three five-star recruits and Kentucky only had two.

The departure of Cole Anthony to the NBA leaves a hole at the point guard position for UNC, but incoming freshman Caleb Love is a five-star recruit who should make an immediate impact at the position. Love, who was the Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year, was ranked as the third-best freshman by CBS Sports. The Tar Heels' recruiting class also includes guard RJ Davis, versatile, five-star bigs Walker Kessler and Day'Ron Sharpe, and scoring wingers Puff Johnson and Kerwin Walton.

Current Investments by Piedmont Private Equity, LLC

Brice Hall is the director of investor relations at Piedmont Private Equity, LLC. Brice Hall is part of the team that is currently investing in five properties located in Florida and the Carolinas. The five properties include two commercial retail centers in North Carolina, apartments in Florida and in South Carolina, and a senior housing community in South Carolina.

With construction already underway, the Waterworks Commercial Retail Center located at Mt. Airy in North Carolina has two pre-lease tenants: a local hospital's urgent care facility and a T-Mobile store. The center will span about 6,800 square feet. Piedmont Private Equity has also started construction on the 7,500-square-foot Edgewood Commercial Retail Center in Mt. Airy, North Carolina. The property also has two pre-lease tenants, namely Aspen Dental and a Mattress Firm.

Located along the I-26 in Ridgeville, South Carolina, the Apartments of North Charleston are also currently under construction. Ridgeville is in Berkley County, ranked as the second-fastest-growing county in South Carolina. Construction on the apartments in North Jacksonville, Florida, suburb of Yulee is expected to begin in fall 2020. The construction work on Merril Gardens in Greenville, South Carolina, is also expected to kick off in 2020. Piedmont Private Equity is playing an active investment role in all five projects.