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Please join us in welcoming Jarod Blaney as the new Chief Operating Officer of GROWTH Homes!

With 25+ years in homebuilding and real estate, Jarod has led at nearly every level of the business. He spent the last decade at PulteGroup, most recently as President of its Mid-Atlantic operations. He has also served as COO and CFO of Stanley Martin Homes, with earlier experience at Lennar, NVR, Freddie Mac and Deloitte.

Great things are already happening at GROWTH, and Jarod's experience will help us make them even better, bringing well-built homes to more families who are ready to own. He's a perfect fit for our team and our future.

Welcome to the team, Jarod!

This Labor Day, GROWTH Homes Managing Director Ed Gorman shared something with the team that we thought was worth sharing a little more broadly.

"As I think about Labor Day this year, I think about American history in the latter half of the 19th century and the forces that were in play for workers seeking better lives for themselves and their families.

Remarkably, they organized themselves into potent economic forces. Craft and industrial guilds willing to stand up against well-armed employer militias because they believed their collective well-being was worth fighting for.

We think of that period as some grainy black-and-white footage that disappears into the haze of our fractured attention spans. But many of your forebears were on one side or the other of that tension. This weekend, take a moment to think about the people whose shoulders you're standing on.

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 under Grover Cleveland, largely as a political gesture toward labor activism that had otherwise been suppressed during his term. There was even debate within the labor movement about whether to recognize it at all.

Today, Labor Day is more a signal of the end of summer than a celebration of the working class whose sacrifices built the American middle class. But the things we take for granted aren't appreciated until they're lost.

Our past matters. Let's not lose it."

Happy Labor Day from all of us at GROWTH Homes!