LIST RESEARCH by way of LORETTA WI...

LIST RESEARCH by way of LORETTA WILLIAMS

JOHN WIELAND residences AND NEIGHBORHOODS. Choice Homes. David Weekley firesides Do they belong to a dying breed?

As merger and acquisitions swallow builders as large as active adult leader Del Webb and as specialized as Dallas-based CityHomes, the number of large--but not super-sized--home builders in succession the BUILDER 100 shrinks each year.

"There aren't many of us left" says John Wieland, CEO of the Atlanta household building company that bears his name. "As someone said to me the other day, 'You're a dinosaur.'"

In a time of consolidation, builders as it was ...