From his house high on a hillside at the north end of Durango, Marc Katz can
see far up the spectacular Animas Valley where the red-rocked La Plata
mountains frame the Animas River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the
Western United States and renowned for its world-class fly-fishing.
Katz, the CEO of Mercury Payment Systems, his wife Jane and their two kids
moved into the house seven months ago. It s not a dream house from the
standpoint of being custom-built to suit the CEO, but it is 5,000 square
feet, about triple the size of his old house.
“It s not really so much to reflect the company s success that I moved out
here,” says Katz, still with a slight New York accent despite being more
than 20 years removed from the East Coast. “More the fact that my 7- and
11-year-olds are getting to the age where you get a bunch of their friends
over, you want to have some place for them to go to be themselves and not be
right on top of you.”
Managing growth has been the story of Katz s life for the last couple of
years, a problem every business owner would like to have, but a problem
nonetheless.
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