David McEntire
President
David McEntire is a Colorado native with over 38 years of home building experience. As a Western State Colorado University Business graduate, his career began in 1980 with North American Homes, a leading builder in Colorado. After nine years in Colorado, he expanded into the Las Vegas market as Mainland General Manager for Honvest Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honfed Federal Savings Bank of Hawaii. In 1993, David founded Amstar Homes. Over the years, he has built a sterling reputation for quality. His company's homes are nationally recognized for outstanding craftsmanship, design, and customer service, and routinely earn a five-star rating from J.D. Powers and Associates.
David learned the home building business from the ground up. He has been involved in every facet of the home-building process (i.e., proof of concept, design, finance, estimating, negotiating, purchasing, advertising, marketing, sales, quality control, and customer service). He is recognized as the ‘Qualified Person,’ certified and licensed to work with federal (U.S. Departments of Interior and Veterans Affairs), state (Colorado & Nevada), and local governments (building department councils and numerous boards).
David has served as director and officer on numerous boards including National Association of Home Builders, Home Builders Association of Colorado Springs, Southern Nevada Home Builders Association, Southern Colorado Community Association Institute, various HOA’s, the City of Colorado Springs & El Paso County Drainage Board, The Church at Las Vegas, Western State Colorado University Foundation, and the Ronald McDonald House.
He and his wife, Sarah, live in the Amber Ridge neighborhood; their daughter attends Timber Trail Elementary School.
In the context of pent-up voter frustration over excessive water rates, the imposition of non-voter-approved fees, and proposed new property taxes, water-rate increases, and debt load, the people of Castle Pines decisively elected David and his reform team to the Metro District Board in May 2018.
David believes that securing our renewable water future wisely and at less cost by potentially consolidating our community’s water and wastewater services with those of a larger, neighboring water district constitutes an efficient and economical option moving forward.
As a highly regarded homebuilder, David possesses an extraordinary depth and diversity of experience working with water districts and utilities companies. David’s knowledge of finance, construction, operations, maintenance, and financing of public infrastructure — combined with his rigidly methodical approach to evaluating less expensive renewable water alternatives to those that residents overwhelmingly rejected in both 2016 and 2018 — can result in a safe, reliable, less costly water future for the people of Castle Pines.
Immediately after his colleagues elected him as board president, David quietly immersed himself in leading the Metro District’s fact-based, data-driven, due diligence processes with an eye toward keeping his promise to the community.
“I am truly blessed and honored serve on a team of fiscally conservative public servants that function, cohesively, as team of thoughtful stewards for our community’s services, assets, and tax dollars. Without their efforts, insights, and support — and without the many relationships that we resuscitated — I believe it is highly unlikely that we would be as well positioned as we are to finally securing our community’s water future wisely and at less cost,” said David.
