Business View Magazine | February 2018

50 51 A nderson Homes is an award-win- ning custom home builder and general contractor based in the Olympic Peninsula, a 3600-square- mile arm of land in westernWashington State, directly across the Puget Sound from Seattle.The Olympic Peninsula is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal. It is home to many state and national parks, including the million-acre Olympic National Park, as well as 378,000 residents who populate its several small cities and towns. Anderson Homes was founded in 1981 by RickAnderson,whose father, Leroy,was a residential builder in Seattle from the 1950s to the 1990s,working under the name of Lee Homes. Leroy had established an Olympic Peninsula division of Lee Homes during the logging and fishing boom of the late ‘70s and ‘80s, eventually building over 750 sin- gle-family homes. Rick,who had joined his father in the construction business in 1978, purchased the company’s Olympic Peninsula ANDERSON HOMES Homes COME HOME TO QUALITY AT A GLANCE ANDERSON HOMES WHAT: A custom home builder and developer WHERE: Sequim, Washington WEBSITE: www.andersonhomesllc.com