Update on the New Modular Factory in Colorado

The 110,000 square foot state-of-the-art housing manufacturing facility by Fading West is under construction on the south edge of Buena Vista that when complete will provide 100 skilled construction and production jobs in Chaffee County and may produce up to 700 homes each year. It’s scheduled to begin production this November. The climate-controlled site is […]

The Case for Abandoning Custom Modular Homebuilding

 A look at the New Levittown by Kim Shanahan One possible answer to America’s housing crisis is to abandon custom homebuilding. The last project I contracted in 2008 was a 100-lot subdivision on the south side with an affordable housing requirement mandating 70 percent be sold for under $200,000. Between April 2008 and the crash that […]