Bay Area entrepreneur makes plans to open eco-friendly building supply stores
San Rafael-based New Home Inc. is planning to open a chain of building-materials stores, including some in the East Bay, that will cater to builders who want to be completely eco-friendly in their construction projects “Green building materials are too expensive and too hard to find,” said Rich Rifkin, a serial entrepreneur who founded New Home Inc. in 2006. “We intend to make green building materials just as easy to find as non-green items.” The first showrooms are slated for Dublin and San Rafael. And New Home has leased a 13,000-square foot site in San Rafael and plans to make the Dublin site, a former Good Guys building owned by Robert Enea, one of its flagship stores. Read the full article, as written by George Avalos, Contra Costa Times.
