Selinsgrove firm will add 50 employees

by Harry Zimbler, Editor

Selinsgrove – Icon Legacy Custom Modular Homes cut the ribbon on its new facility on April 23. The company, now in its second year of operations, plans to double its production capacity. Icon Legacy manufactures single and multi-family homes and light commercial buildings. Its homes appreciate in value exactly as homes built on site.

Dan Stimely, company CEO, said that despite the current economic challenges, Icon legacy is embracing growth.

“We are preparing for growth. We will go from building one complete house per day to producing two per day. The economy may be sour, but we refuse to participate with the media. We will find a way to get the consumer a house. We have come up with a lot of different approaches to doing that. We are thinking outside of the box.”

One way that Icon helps homebuyers is by working with them and mortgage companies on home financing.

“Stick builders (home builders that build on site) seem to be giving up or burying their heads in the sand. We will not. We expect United States tax credits for home buyers to help.”

Icon sells most of it products to building contractors. Depending upon their total square footage, homes can be created in many configurations. “A home can be anywhere from one to eighteen pieces,” said Stimely.

One very encouraging development for the company is the fact that it has sold more units in the four months of 2009 than it did in all of 2008. “We market our homes throughout the east,” Stimely said. “We have placed homes as far away as Louisiana and Vermont.”

Icon Legacy currently employs 75 people and plans to add 25 people in 2009 and 25 more in 2010.

“Consumers need to know that right now is a good time to buy a home,” Stimely noted. “Home prices are back to where they were four years ago. And we are trying to do everything we can to help.”

Icon Legacy homes come in a variety of sizes, from 900 square feet to two story buildings that measure 5, 000 square feet. The company is willing to offer many upgrades as standard features on their homes. That is one way to help increase the home’s value, without increasing its price, Stimely said. One of the models on display is a 2,200 square foot home that sells for about $200,000.

Icon Legacy employs a variety of skilled craftsmen, from carpet layers to roofers, trim carpenters to drywall finishers.