By Georgann Yara | Special for the ABG | azcentral.com
He could’ve been hanging out with the wrong crowd, smoking or disrespecting authority.
But when Jerry Meek’s father, a veteran homebuilder, discouraged him from going into the industry, his I’ll-show-you move was following in his father’s professional footsteps.
This path resulted in Desert Star Construction, the custom luxury homebuilding company he started with his father, Gerald, in 1978.
“My dad told me not to be a homebuilder. It was my form of rebellion,” said Meek, president of the Scottsdale-based company, chuckling.
