Industry Experience
Bestor Ward, president of Ward Properties,
Inc., graduated from Auburn University in 1980 with
a degree in marketing. Ward worked for a local bank
before entering into the commercial real estate industry
working for White-Spunner Commercial Development and
Head Companies, Inc. In 1989 he joined a family owned
business, Bedsole Investment Company, Inc. which has
been in continuous business in Mobile since 1928. Later
he acquired the majority of the company stock and changed
the name to Ward Properties, Inc. Safe Archives is
a wholly owned subsidiary of Ward Properties, Inc.and
was formed in 2002. Ward and the Safe Archives team
have become the leader in quality and service in the
records management and media storage business in the
Greater Mobile Metropolitan area.
Ward has extensive Civic and Business
affiliations throughout the city of Mobile and the
State of Alabama and he has served on the board of
many organizations
including The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, The
Rotary Club of Mobile and The J.L. Bedsole Foundation.
Safe Archives’s parent
company, Ward Properties, Inc., has been doing business
along the northern Gulf Coast since 1928 and has
a long history of community involvement and support.
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