Metropolitan Builders Association Members Build Ten Homes during nationwide ‘Home Builders Blitz’ Week

Metropolitan Builders Association builders are joined Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity to raise walls on ten homes in Milwaukee as part of the Habitat for Humanity Home Builders Blitz 2006 which took place June 5-9, 2006. From start to finish, these ten homes were built in one week!

“Partnering with the Metropolitan Builders Association allows Milwaukee Habitat to continue its efforts in Milwaukee in building a better community by making housing affordable. We are so grateful these homebuilders are joining us to increase the number of homes we could build this year,” said Sara Kierzek, Executive Director, Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity. 

While building ten homes in such a compressed time frame presented a tremendous challenge, Habitat for Humanity and the MBA have been hard at work for months working to secure donations of time and material for each home. The MBA builders and members have raised enough money and materials to cover nearly 100% of the construction costs associated with each home. The tremendous outpouring will easily exceed $600,000 and will hopefully lead to the rebirth of the Metcalf Park Neighborhood.

 “When the Milwaukee Habitat  for Humanity first approached the MBA about Home Builders Blitz, we knew it would be a perfect fit since MBA members have been giving back to the community since the MBA’s inception over sixty years ago,” said Matt Moroney, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Builders Association. True to form, MBA builders surpassed Milwaukee Habitat’s original goal of eight homes, agreeing to construct ten.  These professional homebuilders are put their dedication to community first and forefront so that ten families will soon fulfill their dream of homeownership.

Home Builders Blitz is more than a simple barn raising, it’s raising a neighborhood in a week. The MBA is proud to be a part of this nation wide campaign with NAHB and Habitat for Humanity to build over 400 homes across the nation in one week.

Builders that participated in Home Builders Blitz include:

  • Bartelt Filo Design Build
  • Brookstone Homes, Inc. (2 homes)
  • Carmel Builders, Inc.
  • Colby Construction Co., Inc./Hickory Hill Homes, Inc.
  • James Craig Builders, Inc.
  • Joseph Douglas Homes
  • Matt Hall & Son Home Builders, Inc.
  • MasterCraft Builders, Inc./BDC Building Design & Construction
  • William Ryan Homes, Inc.

In addition, the following MBA members by donated to all ten homes:

Donors To the Home Builders Blitz

Follow the progress of the Homes Being Built

View photos of each day of the Home Builders Blitz