So what’s next for DMB? Though the company has successful projects in California, Hawaii and Utah, there truly is no place like home. “We continue to look outside of Arizona but, for one reason or another, we always find ourselves in our backyard,” Freericks says. He cites One Scottsdale and the redevelopment of Centerpoint on Mill as ongoing, and says DMB will focus on infill and small, more urban properties locally.

Easy Being Green Apart from creating quality properties, sustainability is a huge benchmark for DMB. And according to Freericks, being eco-minded and a good business person goes hand in hand. “We have always been unashamed that we are a business and we are profit-seekers,” he says. “We really take salvaging plants very seriously—not just because it is the right thing to do but because it is appropriate for the location and economic.” For example, much of the DC Ranch and Verrado communities are landscaped with rock and desert materials salvaged from the site. Not only is this practice eco-friendly and promoting native species of plant life, but is saves in purchasing and transporting rock and plants from elsewhere and paying to ship extricated material off-site. As a bonus, DMB lessens its carbon footprint.