A Scramble on Brambleton, Va. for Big Builder’s DC-Metro Dream Team
This is the third in a series of short video reports on a reality-show like component of Big Builder’s educational and networking event, coming Nov. 16-20, 2009.
Watch TV? Think one part “The Apprentice,” one part “Iron Chef,” and one part “Dancing With the Stars,” and you’re onto what’s going on here.
The event is virtual. The theme is “Accelerate the Positive,” and the assumptions of the developers are that executives want to hear their peers’ ideas on how to design and create a business model around American consumers’ new normal.
Affordable but highly valuable; sustainable and highly practical–a half-dozen executives from competing companies in five different markets are actually working together to conceptualize, collaborate, and communicate their vision for a community that could come online in the next 12 to 36 months.
Big Builder editor Sarah Yaussi reports here on our kick-off project call with the Washington, DC-metro team of executives.
Let me introduce the D.C. crew:
- Alan Shapiro, Winchester Homes. Shapiro started gracing the pages of Big Builder magazine in earnest in early 2008, when he took over as president of the Weyerhaeuser subsidiary. Under Shapiro’s leadership, the Maryland-based builder has focused on product and branding under its high-end Camberley Homes brand and its active adult brand Artistry Homes. In addition, the company’s dabbled in some universal design and green building
- Dan Ryan, Dan Ryan Builders. You may recognize Ryan’s name; he is from a long and distinguished line of home builders, some of whom founded some of the industry’s best-run companies. Anyone heard of a Ryland Homes or Ryan Homes, by chance? Most recently, Ryan served as the cover model for Big Builder’s annual private builder report.
- Craig Collin, Pulte Homes. Collin is a fresh face and wonderful addition to our Big Builder event. He’s got a fantastic reputation in the market as Pulte’s vice president of construction operations for its Northeast Region. In addition, Collin has received accolades for his commitment and success in green building.
- John Clarke, Elm Street Development. As regional partner and vice president for one of the D.C. metro area’s hottest developers, Clarke is the go-to guy for land acquisition and development in Maryland. And he’s a Harvard MBA to boot.
- Debbie Rosenstein, Christopher Communities. A true sales and marketing maven, Rosenstein has years of experience on the housing market research side of the business. If there’s anyone who knows what D.C. metro buyers want in today’s environment, it’s Rosenstein.
- Rohit Anand, Cubellis. A 22-year design veteran, Anand currently is managing partner and residential practice group leader for the Northern Virginia arm of design firm Cubellis. You may recognize some of Anand’s work from the pages of Big Builder; he and his team have participated in past Big Builder design challenges from 2008 and 2007.
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