“I really should have been a cowboy,” says James C. Berry — the 80-year-old Chairman and CEO of Republic Parking System, Inc. and owner of a commercial real estate business, the Jim Berry Company. He has retreated from his 20th floor corner office —with its panorama Lookout Mountain view, buffed cherry desk and lampshade with a price tag dangling inside — to an alcove secreted behind a paneled pocket door.
This paper-strewn “man cave” is Berry’s command center, the inner sanctum. The furniture is beige; the blinds closed. A bag of Extra Value Intense Dark Ghirardelli chocolates sits next to a flashing, multi-decked phone. There is no cell phone, no computer — his secretary prints out his important emails.
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