Business View Magazine | February 2018

52 53 division in 1981, and re-christened it.Over the last 36 years,Anderson Homes has built over 550 sin- gle-family homes, 884 apartment units, and several light commercial buildings and facilities on the Peninsula. Today,Anderson Homes is run by Caleb Anderson, Rick’s son,who was born and raised in Port Angeles, the Peninsula’s biggest city.Armed with a degree in Construction Management from the University of Washington, he began his career working for a large commercial general contractor, building high rises in and around Seattle. In 2013, after the local hous- ing market on the Peninsula began showing signs of recovering from the Great Recession, Caleb joined his father in the family business and became Vice President of the firm. Anderson Homes has 14 full-time employees, and uses local subcontractors -many who work solely for Anderson Homes - to perform all the construc- tion work.“Anderson Homes has a long-standing relationship with many of its key subcontractors that have been working for Rick for over 25 years,” says ANDERSON HOMES Caleb.“We keep our money and jobs in our com- munity.We’re one of the largest private economic drivers on the Olympic Peninsula.” In addition to building custom homes, Caleb says that the company does design-build work, too. “If you’re doing a custom home, either my father or I, and the architect,will sit down with you and we’ll design the home, together.We have a speci- fications manual that’s about 30 pages; we have a fully developed set of plans.We spend a lot of time upfront, even before you have a contract with us: ‘this is what we’re planning, this is what you’re going to receive, it’s going to look like this. Is this what you want?’” Anderson Homes is also a developer. It owns a 179-lot development in Sequim,Washington, called Cedar Ridge, and a 17-lot development in Port Angeles,where in addition to its custom homes, the company builds some semi-custom and spec housing, as well.“We’re going to build through our current development at Cedar Ridge,”Caleb reports. “We have about 60 lots left, so Cedar Ridge will be built out in about two-and-a-half years. So, right now,we are out negotiating for land.We’re looking at buying and developing land and keeping our lots in front of the construction machine that we have.” Anderson Homes’ typical clients, these days, are recent, or incipient, active retirees in their mid-six- ties.“A lot of them are relocating from California, Alaska, other parts of Washington State,”Caleb states.“A lot of people live in downtown Seattle, or close to downtown Seattle,where the housing mar- ket is just insane, so they’re able to sell their older or smaller home for quite a bit of money and then