Submitted by Brian Banmiller on May 16, 2013 - 12:00am.
When the great recession crippled the economy; one man started building a recovery... out of wood.
CBS Sixty Minutes recently profiled Brian Preston. In 2008 he lost the Georgia based furniture company he had started with just one employee. After selling his house and car he and his pregnant wife were forced to move in with family. That's when he had an idea to boost his bank account.
Preston decided to start making furniture again only this time he would make it out of reclaimed wood such as dismantled barns and shipping palates. Next he needed employees, people ready to do whatever it took to get back on their feet. And he found them, as part of a homeless housing community living in the woods behind a shopping center. read more »