How Building Our Dream Home Is Creating $1.57M in Local Economic Impact (And Why It Matters)

A personal reflection on how building our home creates ripple effects throughout our city As I was washing dishes the other day, thinking about the roofing crew, hard at work installing shingles, something struck me. These are more than just workers—in fact, they are our neighbors, local professionals whose livelihoods we're directly supporting. Rather than moving money around in the stock market, we're injecting it straight into our community. Subsequently, this got me thinking: if we spend $525,000 building our house, how exactly does that ripple through our local economy? From Blueprints to Economic Growth Initially, the moment we hired our architect, we started a chain reaction. However, it's when ground breaks that the real