If DMB sounds unfamiliar, a project from its mighty portfolio is sure to ring a bell: the live-work-play communities of DC Ranch, Power Ranch, Silverleaf, Verrado, Marley Park and the emerging Eastmark (all located in the Valley) as well as California’s Martis Camp and Hawaii’s Kukui‘ula, to name a few. Commercially, DMB is responsible for One Scottsdale and Centerpoint on Mill, among others. Even through the trying recession, Freericks says that DMB has been able to thrive because it focuses its energy on community development, keeps strong relationships with its land owners and has a properly structured business plan that can succeed through certain cycles.

However, keeping adrift during trying times isn’t the crowning achievement of DMB. For Freericks, he is most proud of the people he gets to work with each day. “We have some of the best and brightest talent in the industry,” he says. “They do great things in the community and are a great team of people.” And it is the DMB team that has made the Scottsdale company even bigger and better than the trio of founders imagined nearly 28 years ago. “And yet, [the founders] committed for years to find a company that outlives their time,” Freericks says.