MileStone Community Builders to Build and Donate Two Playhouses for Auction at the ECHO Amplify Austin Event

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MileStone Community Builders, LLC announced today that it will build two playhouses to be auctioned off during ECHO’s Amplify Austin Event. ECHO has nearly 1000 individuals engaging with City and County leaders interested in ending homelessness. The ECHO Amplify Austin project is designed to create awareness of the need for affordable housing and to help end homelessness in Austin. With nearly 2000 children in Austin schools homeless, Austin needs more affordable housing so that all families have a place to call home.

“Our own mission is to provide quality homes at an exceptional value and it is our honor to participate in the Amplify Austin event to further support the growth and well-being of our beloved Austin community.”

The completed MileStone playhouses will be on public display beginning February 28 – March 5, 2013 and placed at Austin City Hall and at Back Home with a 2wist, which is adjacent to Central Market. Information about how to bid on the houses will be available at each playhouse and online. Bids on the playhouses will be taken from 3pm on Wednesday, February 27 thru 3pm on Monday, March 4. The highest bidder will make the donation during the Amplify Austin Event, March 4-5, 2013.

“The ECHO Amplify Austin event is a wonderful project and we are thrilled as a local company to be partnering with this terrific local non-profit and to support the mission of ending Austin homelessness,” said Garrett Martin, CEO of MileStone Community Builders. “Our own mission is to provide quality homes at an exceptional value and it is our honor to participate in the Amplify Austin event to further support the growth and well-being of our beloved Austin community.”

MileStone Community Builders, new homes Austin builder, has won numerous awards, including Austin Business Journal’s Residential Real Estate Awards (RRE) 2012 Production Home Builder Winner of the Year, the Home Builders Association of Greater Austin President’s Choice Award Volume Builder 2011, and more. Dedicated to providing superior quality homes at a remarkable value, which is central to every home buyer, the company achieved record sales in 2012, doubling in size from the previous year.

About ECHO

The Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) envisions an Austin/Travis County fiercely focused on ending homelessness. ECHO provides dynamic proactive leadership that engages policy makers and the community in ending homelessness. Working with 100 community members monthly from local non-profits, businesses and government, ECHO develops, prioritizes, and promotes strategies to prevent and end homelessness.

About MileStone Community Builders

MileStone Community Builders’ mission is to serve our customers by providing a high quality home, doing the right thing every time, and offering innovative design and architecture at a reasonable price. We maintain honest communication throughout the homebuilding process, focus on one customer at a time, and exceed all customer expectations, because we understand that every home we craft is a milestone in each of our customers’ lives.

In purchasing your home from MileStone, you will find that we are willing to make commitments and stand by them throughout your home-buying experience as well as throughout your life, one milestone to the next.

We also offer unprecedented value within each community. Just because you get more, does not mean that you should have to pay more.

MileStone Community Builders is here "For the MileStones In Your Life."

MileStone Community Builders is Winner of:

2012 Production Home Builder of the Year
Austin Business Journal’s Residential Real Estate Awards (RRE)

President's Choice – Volume Builder 2011
Home Builders Association Greater Austin