Why become a Tucson Home Builder now?

  

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Probably once a week I am asked why we created another Tucson home builder in the middle of the current economic climate.  I can't claim insanity but some of my friends may disagree.  Simply there are two reasons which I can clearly state which forced me to make this jump.

First and foremost is the fact that when I moved back to Tucson I was saddened by the loss of Tucson's character.  This can be seen by the national home builders bringing in house designs from wherever their headquarters were located whether it be Colorado, California or Florida.  It is understandable a large corporation would want to leverage a previous house design to save costs but the true cost of this practice was the killing of Tucson's soul.  So when I moved back home all I saw were bland beige boxes with pitched roofs that should of been built in Sacramento more than Tucson. 

Secondly, I found the home builders in Tucson taking the path of least resistance.  It is actually easier to build bland beige boxes on the far outskirts of Tucson than it is to build new homes with character within Tucson's city limits.  If you are only looking at financial returns then the decision on what and where you build is easy.  But for some of us Tucson is our home and always will be our home.  We desire creativity and density in the city core and preservation of as much of the desert as possible.  After all that is why we live here, isn't it?   

So I found myself as a developer in 2009 not liking what the home builders wanted to build.  I found them not willing to fight the City of Tucson bureaucracy.  I found them using the poor economy as an excuse to build uglier houses with cheaper quality.  And over a bottle of red wine at Kingfisher we decided enough was enough and Mesquite Homes was created.  We would fight the bureaucracy, we would build in the City and we would create homes with personality and a company with spirit.