Inland housing developer slightly bullish on local market

When he was a student at Alta Loma High School, Brian Bush took drafting classes and planned to be an architect.

Then he watched the construction of Colonies Crossroads, a 447-acre master planned community next to the Foothill Freeway in Upland and changed his mind.

“I grew up in Alta Loma and the Colonies was being developed near my house.” said Bush, who graduated from Alta Loma High School in 2005. “Watching that is what got me interested in development. They took an underutilized piece of property and turned into a flagship property, and that inspired me to pursue real estate development as my career.”