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from University of Oregon and moved to Phoenix, Arizona for a year there. Some of my best friends now are friends from high school. We all
and a half. When I retired and told him I was going to start a consulting get together, play golf, or go fishing. Southern Oregon has been home
business, he’s like, “Oh man, I’ll come back to Oregon. I love fishing for my whole life. I got to help grow PRS over the years and traveled
the Rogue, but just didn’t think a career was possible here.” a lot. I always came back and saying, “Man, I’m really glad I live here.”
We built retirement communities all over California—Sacramento,
San Francisco, LA and worked on projects in Texas and Arizona. I love
coming home.
Q: HOW DOES SMOKE AND SCARCITY OF WATER IMPACT
THE LIVABILITY OF SOUTHERN OREGON?

BRIAN: I absolutely think water and smoke are two big issues that Q: HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN RETIREMENT
have to be dealt with. People looking at Southern Oregon on a smoky SERVICES AND SPECIFICALLY WITH PRS?
day start asking, “Does this happen every year?” I spent six years from
high school to college working for Oregon State Forestry here in BRIAN: Really it was an accident. Human resources was a focus
Southern Oregon fighting fires. A big fire for us was 100 acres. The in college. There was a human resources job at Rogue Valley Manor,
good news is there’s has been a wake-up call, fire crews seem to be which was creating the human resources department. They said, “Well,
more aggressive on getting on the fires. People understand that smoke you have zero experience in human resources. This job doesn’t fit, but
is a significant health impact, but smoke also has a severe economic we like what you’re saying.” I was student body vice-president at SOU,
impact. so, I was very involved. They said, “We like what you’ve done at SOU.
We’re starting this affordable housing division and perhaps you could
help us with that?” I started developing affordable housing communi-
ties, which was a great way to learn to get a project zoned and built.
Q: YOU GREW UP IN GRANTS PASS. WHAT WAS The first project we did was a million dollars and we thought that was
SOUTHERN OREGON LIKE GROWING UP? huge! The last project before I retired, we finished in Arizona for about
$279 million. I was blessed to have those experiences and to be able to
BRIAN: Grants Pass was about 12,000 people when we first moved roll that knowledge to the next and the next project.

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