John Wieland has discovered that there is money to be made by breathing new life into unfinished subdivisions that the economy pushed in to the hands of banks.
That is important because John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods was a big builder with big debt when housing went south – and not south to his Atlanta market.
"The streetscapes and homes look pretty close to what was built previously," Builder magazine's Boyce Thompson reports from Atlanta, "but the floor plans are typically better. And at today’s prices, that makes the homes quite a bargain."