Influence - Las Vegas Sun

40A | INFLUENCE • 2005
POWER COUPLE
IN BUSINESS LAS VEGAS
Jim Rhodes
Rhodes Homes, Founder
Glynda Rhodes
Rhodes Homes, Vice President of Interior and Architectural Design
Independently, Jim Rhodes and
his wife Glynda are influential
people with long lists of personal
and professional accomplishments.
As a couple, they are the powerhouse
team that is taking Rhodes
Homes to the top of the home building
industry in Las Vegas.
Jim Rhodes, founder
and president of Rhodes
Homes, started his own
business as a framer in the
construction industry
shortly after graduating from high
school in 1976. By the early 1980s,
he had a contractor’s license for
Jim Rhodes Construction and more
than 125 employees.
Today he is the largest individual
owner of privately held land in
Southern Nevada and is building
Rhodes Ranch, Tuscany Village in
Henderson, Tantara and Southwest
Ranch.
He developed Spanish Hills, an
exclusive gated community, and
Granada Hills, an upscale tract
home neighborhood and has built
custom homes for celebrity clients
including tennis star Andre Agassi,
football legend Randall Cunningham
and baseball player Greg Maddox.
Glynda Rhodes began her career
in the hospitality industry where
she opened the beverage department
for Fitzgerald’s in Tunica,
Miss., and Players Island in Mesquite,
Nev. For three years she was
the beverage manager for Caesars
Palace.
In 2000 Glynda Rhodes joined
Rhodes Homes where she has
worked as the vice president of
customer care and now serves as
vice president of interior and architectural
design. In addition, she
recently opened her own interior
design firm, id design.
Her job with Rhodes Homes includes
researching trends in the home
building industry, working alongside
the architects and designers to review
and prepare design elements
for all of the company’s communities
and designing the company’s model
homes.
“Jim and I share a deep
passion to integrate our
home and community designs
with our personal experiences,”
Glynda said.We
spend countless hours analyzing
popular floor plans,
elevation, interior design,
home amenities and project
layout constructed throughout
the United States and
Europe. These impressions
enable us to create and develop
master-planned communities
that our buyers
relate to ...”
Both native Las Vegans, the couple
lives in Rhodes Ranch and together are
raising five boys.
Deborah Roush