The developer and the builder are the same people
Most development goes wrong at the seam: the developer sells finished lots, the builder inherits them, and nobody owns the decision that put a pad four feet too low or a drive at a grade a concrete truck cannot climb. We do both halves, so that seam does not exist.
Practically, that means we look at land the way a builder does. Where do the houses sit, how does water leave the site, what does each pad cost to build, and what is the real yield after setbacks and drainage take their share. That answer decides whether a parcel is worth buying at all.
Development work we take on
From evaluating a parcel to houses standing on it.
Parcel evaluation
Walking land before you buy it: topography, drainage, access, utility distance and realistic lot yield after setbacks. The cheapest advice you will get on a project.
Lot layout
How lots are cut, where drives land and where each pad sits, planned against how houses actually get built rather than how a plat looks on paper.
Infrastructure and utilities
Roads, drives, drainage, and coordinating water, sewer or septic and power to each lot.
Grading and pads
Clearing, cut and fill, and building pads set at the right elevation for drainage and for the house that is going on them.
Spec home construction
Building homes on the developed lots through Premier Home Developers, the residential division of the same company.
County and city approvals
Plat, permit and approval paperwork filed in house so the schedule is not hostage to a third party.
From parcel to finished houses
Walk the land
Before money changes hands. Topography, drainage, access and utility distance decide whether a parcel works, and they are visible on foot long before they show up on paper.
Yield and cost per lot
Real numbers: how many lots, what each pad costs to build, what infrastructure runs. This is where projects get killed or confirmed.
Infrastructure
Roads, drainage and utilities in, pads graded and set. The unglamorous half of development and the half that decides the margin.
Vertical construction
Houses built by our residential division on lots we developed, with no handoff between two companies blaming each other.
Developed and built by the same company
Premier Construction Co. handles the land, the grading and the paperwork. Premier Home Developers builds the houses. One company, one accountability chain, from raw parcel to a family moving in.
See the project gallery →Residential development questions
Will you look at land before I buy it?
Yes, and you should have someone do that. Topography, drainage, access and utility distance decide whether a parcel is worth what is being asked, and those are visible on a walk.
Do you do small developments or only large ones?
Small and mid sized work: a handful of lots, an infill parcel, a small subdivision. That is where a local builder developer is genuinely more useful than a large firm.
Can you build the houses too?
Yes. Premier Home Developers is the residential division of the same company, so the lots we develop can be built on without handing the project to an outside builder.
What does site work usually cost per lot?
It depends almost entirely on the ground, the slope and how far utilities are. Anyone quoting a per lot number without walking the parcel is guessing, and that guess is usually low.
Have the parcel looked at
Send us the address or parcel number before you commit. We will walk it and tell you what it will actually yield and what the ground is going to cost you.