Late last month the city of San Jose, the largest municipality in the fast-growing Silicon Valley began offering builders and contractors a way to apply for permits and to track their applications through various approval stages.
Josh Freeman, 35, was already president of Carl M. Freeman Associates, a diversified, $100-million-a-year Potomac, Md.-based building and development firm, when his father died in 1998.
When building companies participating in our most recent Reference Point study state that the length of their contract-to-closing process increased significantly in the past two years, does it really matter?
For a guy who got fired from his first job in the building world, David Weekley has made an impressive journey. Recruited in 1974 from Trinity University, Weekley hired on with a builder as a management trainee.
Michael Mendelsohn, president/CEO of Cliftwood Homes Inc. in Scottsdale, Ariz., doesn’t build typical houses. But he does conduct much of his business in a typical builder setting: the front seat of his truck.