Leadership
Rachel Bardis: Building A New Blueprint For Community Living
A family legacy in homebuilding gave Rachel Bardis a foundation. Now, as COO of Somers West, she’s applying risk strategy, development grit, and a deep sense of purpose to Braden—an ambitious new master-planned community near Sacramento.
Land
"Farm-To-Able:" New Roots Of Ground-Up New Neighborhoods
Meristem Communities partners Clayton Garrett and Scott Snodgrass bring a 'beginner's mind' -- no preconceptions -- to place- and human story-making in their new 235-acre agrihood community with an urban twist for 750 owner and renter residents near Houston.
Land
Will 55+ Cohort Seek Future-Proof Retirement Relocation Choices?
Doubters as to how swiftly mobility and migration trends can pivot and course correct – powering new boom markets in geographies long considered backwater, tertiary markets at best – need only look at Spring 2020 through Spring 2022 as a "narrative-buster."
Leadership
How Builders Always Manage To Do What's Easier Said Than Done
At the trailhead of a fresh barrage of business challenges, leaders dig deep for character, competence, cash reserves, and resiliency for the staying power to be there for customers when markets inevitably improve.
Land
The Past As Prologue And How To Avoid Repeating Mistakes Again
It's not a matter of whether 'this time's different' that's meaningful. It's how this time is different and the impacts that difference will have on your staying power in 2023 and beyond.
Leadership
Will Homebuilders Backslide On Building Frontline Capability Now?
Leaders of homebuilding organizations who've strived so hard, especially over the past few years, to evolve the human capability pipeline now need a continuity and cohesiveness people plan.
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