My husband
was born in Palm Beach. That’s actually the first thing he said to me when we
met. I think he was probably trying to impress me since Palm Beach could easily
be pegged the ‘’Malibu of the East’’. He then told me how he had grown up
playing with Legos (the popular building game) and how he wanted to be in the
construction business (that first part probably won me over).
He studied
civil engineering and worked in an architect’s firm as an intern so he knew a
lot about the ins and outs of project development, commercial buildings, and home remodeling. Business was scarce in
Palm Beach and in the whole country for that matter after the housing bubble
burst following the financial collapse of 2008. His business suffered so much
through those turbulent times which really seem like yesterday. We barely got
by at the time but as he liked to say in full contractor slang I was his
building rock or foundation and he tagged the housing bubble fallout as a
stepping stone to better things. He may have been right since now business is
starting to pick up again. Unemployment is going down, wages are going up which
translates into higher purchasing power for people in the middle and higher
class that happen to be go-to market in places like Palm Beach.
I loved his
newfound success and I also enjoyed looking at him very proud of his hard work
and our resilience through the difficult times. Whenever he asks me how we did
it I just say: ‘’the priest did say through thick and thin dear’’. I get him every
time I say that. We are renting for the time being but if the current trend of
growth in the housing and commercial
building markets continues and business continues to thrive, we may just
start a little home developing project of our own, in Palm Beach of course.
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