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Catellus Development Corporation is an Emeryville, California based, national real estate developer. Founded in 1984 to be the real estate division of Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, as part of the Santa Fe–Southern Pacific merger. It was spun off into its own company in 1989, after the two railroads split.
Standard Pacific was incorporated in 1961 by Arthur Svendsen and Ronald Foell, and began construction of its first subdivision in 1965. [3] Operations expanded to include San Diego in 1969, [4] Texas in 1978, [5] Arizona in 1998, Colorado in 2000, and Florida in 2002. On October 1, 2015, Standard Pacific Homes and Ryland Homes merged to form ...
Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George. [4]In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military.
In 2011, the company paid $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the company failed to disclose that 118 homes in the Newport subdivision, near Orlando, Florida, were built on or near the former Pinecastle Jeep bombing range. The plaintiffs alleged that their property values declined when live bombs were found on site. [11]
Clayton Homes (or Clayton) is the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the United States. [1] [2] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. [3] Clayton Homes' corporate headquarters are in Maryville, Tennessee. [4]
Construction of a prefabricated modular home (see also time-lapse video)Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.
The MHINCC distinguishes among several types of factory-built housing: manufactured homes, modular homes, panelized homes, pre-cut homes, and mobile homes. From the same source, mobile home "is the term used for manufactured homes produced prior to June 15, 1976, when the HUD Code went into effect."
The company was founded in 1978 by Donald R. Horton. [6] Horton took the company public in 1992, and as of 2020 owned about 6% of the company. [7] In 1997, the company acquired Continental Homes for $305 million and the assumption of $278 million in debt. [8]