{"id":6623,"date":"2019-08-16T11:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walshtx.com\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2019-11-27T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:34:53","slug":"mk-homes-builds-basement-home-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walshtx.com\/news\/press\/mk-homes-builds-basement-home-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Homes Builds First Basement Home in Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The magazine\u2019s 2019 Dream Home is nestled on a hilltop overlooking the sprawling West Fort Worth Walsh development. There\u2019s a lot going on inside Walsh.&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"lead\">When the magazine\u2019s 2019 Dream Home opens this fall, being built by Sean Knight Custom Homes, it\u2019ll be the first custom home in the 7,200-acre development on the former Walsh Ranch in far west Fort Worth. Homes in the production section of Walsh have been well underway, with the community welcoming more than 600 new households since 2017, drawn by the development\u2019s array of <a href=\"https:\/\/walshtx.com\/our-homes\/#architecture\">design plans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/walshtx.com\/walsh-village\/\">amenities<\/a> like an Aledo ISD elementary school, swimming pools, gym, parks, trails, maker space, high-speed internet, community center and community-building activities, market, and filling station. At completion, the community plans to have more than 15,000 homes and about 50,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Heid, of MK Homes, a Willow Park luxury builder who\u2019s building homes in Walsh\u2019s production section, is one of the builders Walsh has chosen who can build in the higher custom section. Heid is tackling the home sites that have unusual topography. For one, he\u2019s just completed a tri-level, 4,600-square-foot home with basement, built into the side of a hill with the first floor opening into the backyard, that he\u2019s listed for $849,000. MK has another, 4,200-square-foot spec home in the production section it\u2019s listed for $750,000. For Heid, such homes aren\u2019t unusual \u2014 he grew up in Ohio before moving to Texas to build homes, and Ohio homes have basements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FW Magazine: How\u2019d you get your start?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heid: All my life, since I was a teenager, I\u2019ve been building houses, framing, remodeling, building. I started MK Homes in 1995 in Ohio. I was coming down here visiting family, and I just saw there was so much more building here than in Ohio. We just moved down here and bought a couple of lots (in 2005), and we just hit the ground running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FW: So, you started up right before a recession?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heid: We were building out at Possum Kingdom, Azle, Aledo, Weatherford. We were doing a lot of one- and two-acre lots and ranches. We were out at Possum Kingdom Lake. That\u2019s how I got into some of the basement stuff. That was kind of how we got our foot into Walsh. I kind of cruised right through the recession. The kind of house we were building \u2014 we were building on the lake \u2014 the recession didn\u2019t really affect us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FW: Why\u2019d you move to smaller lots?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heid: Operations director Christian Pearson came on board two years ago; he suggested smaller lots, so we tried it, and it started taking off. It was kind of easier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FW: How many houses do you build a year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heid: Last year, we did 35 to 40.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Fort Worth Magazine, July 22, 2019, Scott Nishimura | <a href=\"https:\/\/fwtx.com\/home-design\/dream-home\/2019-dream-home-walsh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Original Article<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The magazine\u2019s 2019 Dream Home is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3549,6],"tags":[3555,4133],"yst_prominent_words":[4148,2058,1526,1898,69,958,4145,4143,122,536,1522,1514,4144,4142,1812,4141,4147,3256,4146,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-6623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-press","9":"tag-fort-worth-magazine","10":"tag-mk-homes"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.0.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MK Homes Builds First Basement Home in Walsh &bull; WALSH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mike Heid of MK Homes is tackling the Walsh homesites that have unusual topography. 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