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Realty/Builder Connection
F. Gary Garczynski, a builder/developer from Woodbridge, Va., was elected as the 2002 president of the 205,000-member National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) during the association’s 58th annual convention in Atlanta.
Garczynski is president of National Capital Land and Development Company, which develops about 300 finished lots each year for some of the Northern Virginia area’s largest builders, and a principal in Urban Dimensions, Inc., which rehabs residential properties and builds homes on infill sites in Washington, D.C. and its close-in suburbs.
An association member since 1970, Garczynski is an NAHB senior life director and has served on the executive committee since 1993. Since his first year as a senior officer of the association, he has been responsible for oversight of the NAHB Smart Growth Initiative.
C. Kent Conine of Dallas was installed as first vice president. He is president of Conine Residential Group, which specializes in single-family building, single-family subdivision development and multifamily development.
Bobby Rayburn became NAHB’s vice president/treasurer. As president of Rayburn and Associates in Jackson, Miss., Rayburn has more than 30 years of experience in building and developing single-family and multifamily homes.
David F. Wilson, president of Wilson Construction, LLC, in Ketchum, Idaho, was elected NAHB vice president/secretary by the association’s board of directors. Wilson, a single-family builder with 25 years of experience in the building industry, has an extensive record of involvement in various leadership roles at all levels of the association.
Bruce C. Smith, 2001 president of NAHB and president of Smith Quality Homes in Walnut Creek, Calif., becomes the associations’s immediate past president.
Rounding out NAHB’s leadership is Jerry Howard in the post of executive vice president and chief executive officer. Howard joined NAHB as tax counsel in 1988 and previously served as Senior Staff Vice President for Federal Government Affairs and in a variety of other roles, including chief lobbyist.