The housing downturn wrecked the hopes of many a builder, leaving even big outfits like Pulte Homes, based in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., with unsold homes and too much land. Once the nation's largest builder by revenue, it dropped to No. 4 after a bad 2006 but found solace in its Del Webb brand, aimed at people 55 and older. TIME's Cathy Booth Thomas talked to Pulte president and CEO Richard Dugas, who is banking on these baby boomers to help the bottom line. For the record, he is, at 41, too young to live in a Del Webb community.
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