About Mara Urie
Mara Urie is the cofounder and partner in Lighthouse Retreat at Bear Lake II. While in college, Mara did an internship at a large construction company based in Salt Lake City, and ever since then has been intrigued by the construction process. Over the years she has gained insights and had experience laying out everything from homes to subdivisions. She loves the process of seeing ideas go from concept to completion, and the wonderful end result of homes being created, where families will make memories for a lifetime.
When Mara is not working, she enjoys spending time in her garden and attending to her many fruit trees, raspberry bushes, and strawberries. Mara served an LDS mission in Guatamala, and speaks fluent Spanish (although she will tell you otherwise). She has an excellent voice and sang with the Mormon Youth Choir in the past. She also enjoys going on spontaneous trips, and when her kids ask, where are we going, responding, we don’t know yet!
About Thom “Tad” Urie
Thom has worked in the residential homebuilding industry for more than 30 years. He started in the trades in while still in high school, working for a custom painting contractor and a stucco company. Following high school he started working full time doing finish carpentry. After serving and LDS mission in Tampa Florida, he started working for various homebuilders in construction field supervision while earning his bachelor’ts degree attending school in the evenings. He then went on to obtain a law degree, but missed the satisfaction of seeing something be built that he had a part in, so when he finished law school, he went to work in management for some of the largest private and public homebuilders in the country doing entitlements (subdividing land) and acquisitions (buying land), and even as a division president. Thom has a Utah B-100 general contractor license and is a licensed Utah real estate agent.
Thom loves spending time with his family, riding his mountain bike, and traveling the backroads of Utah. His happy place is any beach, and the family property that his second great grandfather and his second great grandmother homesteaded on Cedar Mountain in Southern Utah in the late 1800’s.
