Growing up in the 1960’s during the booming growth era in Dekalb county, a little boy could not have asked for a better life than to play on his family construction sites while his mother worked for her brothers and father. The son and grandson of brick masons, Rick Porter knew from the start that he would build his own houses one day. And fulfilling the American dream, he went beyond building houses by obtaining his Architecture degree at Georgia Tech while working for his family business, driving the dump truck , building fences, cleaning houses. Obtaining his first contract to build a house for one of his fraternity brothers, Rick was one of the initial passive solar builders taking on challenges such as underground houses and foam houses. But what Rick knew he wanted to do was to build relationships through communities. In the late 1990’s he realized that we all want to be part of a small town and co-produced one of the first walkable communities in Suwanee with not only 6 acres of natural habitat but also serving as the connector for the Suwanee trail system. Winning the Atlanta Regional Commission’s award for Development of Excellence in 2001, Richport repeated the combination of small town access with conservation habitat over and over in Covington, Braselton, Decatur, and Sugar Hill. While Richport has built over 2000 homes under the same name for over 40 years, the company has actually placed more land in conservation than in developed lots. And after building his first house for his newlywed fraternity brother in 1975 he built their second home for their budding family in 1985 and their third home as empty nesters forty years later. Richport not only builds homes; they build relationships. That’s Richport’s way of BUILDING A BETTER WORLD