2019 Showcase Home
2019 Showcase Home in Colleyville
John Webb has seemingly spent a lifetime in building, starting when he and his siblings worked as kids for their father, a builder. “We dug a lot of ditches and trimmed a lot of trees,” Webb says.
Webb, who launched Heritage Homes in 2014, is building the magazine’s 2019 Showcase Home, a 5,173-square-foot, modern farmhouse-inspired two-story under construction in Colleyville’s Oakleigh development. As with the magazine’s long-running series of annual Dream Homes, we’re collaborating with some of the region’s finest luxury vendors in our inaugural Showcase Home. HGTV star Donna Moss and a team of 12 designers are finishing the interior and outdoor spaces. The home is helping spawn a new web-based network, HDTV, that producer Josh Mills is leading; Mills will generate several episodes from the home for the network. The home, at 208 Winnie Drive, is listed at $1.89 million by Jeannie Anderson of The Jeannie Anderson Group at Keller Williams Realty. The home will be complete and open for a month of tours in July to benefit a Wish with Wings, our official charity.
Webb got his start after earning a degree in business management from Abilene Christian University, working for a commercial builder in Fort Worth. “You really don’t know where you want to start out and end up,” he says. His best friend owned a small homebuilding company and invited Webb along to watch. “I really fell in love with the homebuilding process,” Webb says. “I’d go out to his sites with him and hang around.”
Webb started a small custom homebuilding company and eventually went to work for production builders for years, ultimately managing multiple neighborhoods for one builder. “I’d walk in every Monday with a handful of contracts we sold” over the weekend, he says. When the recession hit in 2008, Webb lost his job. He went to work for a builder in Dallas, started a company with a partner in 2010 and, then in 2014, launched Heritage Homes on his own.
“I had the opportunity and the means to do it,” Webb says. “I didn’t know what product I was going to be building, half-million-dollar homes or $2 million homes.” Heritage works in custom $1 million-plus projects, mainly in Southlake, but also in cities like Colleyville, Irving and Dallas. Heritage owns four lots today that it’s not building on, and it has another eight coming up in future neighborhoods, Webb says. It also works with customers who have their own lots.
Webb’s built alliances with key partners like Skip Blake, of Blake Architects, and Traci Darden, of the Elements of Design interiors service. Darden is one of the Showcase Home designers.
Communication is key to Webb’s approach. “I like to be very transparent, especially when you’re working with a customer on their lot. We definitely feel we need to build a certain trust level with them. If there’s ever a question or concern, it’s easy to get ahold of me. It’s easy to get ahold of our construction manager. It’s basic customer service. We rarely tell a customer we can’t do something for them.”
