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HBA Spring Fishing Tournament Set for April 4 at Table Rock
The Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield’s annual spring fishing tournament will be held at Table Rock Lake, Mill Creek on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, and the HBA is accepting entries now. Entry fee for the tournament is $75 per boat. To reserve your spot, download the entry form here, fill it out, and return it to: HBA of Greater …
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Builder Members – Join us for HBA of Missouri Legislative Day on March 6!
HBA members from around the state will be meeting at the State Capitol in Jefferson City on Tuesday, March 6 to talk with legislators and encourage passage of bills important to the industry including a fix for co-employee liability. If you are a builder member and would like to ride the bus and participate in Legislative Day, or if you …
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Rogersville board votes to boost home building by cutting impact fees
At its February 6 meeting, the Rogersville Board of Aldermen approved a proposal to cut the city’s water and sewer impact fees by 75% through August 31. Water and sewer impact fees in Rogersville range from $1,500 to $2,600 per house, depending on location. The vote was taken following comments by HBA President Matt Bailey, who both resides in and …
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Rogersville Will Consider Short-Term 75% Cut in Impact Fees Monday Night
At Monday (2/6/2012) night’s regularly-scheduled meeting of the City of Rogersville City Council, council members will consider making a bold move to draw the attention of the home building community – a move that would send a clear signal that the city wants more home building business, and is willing to do its part to encourage it. City leaders will …
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HBA Home Show Dollar-Off Promo Yields 1,887 Pounds of Food for Hungry
The Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield’s 2011 Home Show drew more than 13,000 people in attendance. That was good news for professionals in the building industry, as it likely bodes well for 2012 as a recovery year. But the HBA also leveraged the show’s robust attendance to provided needed support for the work of Ozarks Food Harvest to feed …
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HBA Persuades Republic City Council to Reject Big Impact Fee Increases; Net Cut of $190 per home
Voters in the city of Republic will consider a ballot issue related to the city’s existing impact fee structure on February 7. The ballot question asks voters to grant city council more authority to make future adjustments to impact fees, specifically in this instance to replace its existing impact fee schedule with what city officials call a fairer and simpler …
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Habitat For Humanity Call for Volunteers: ‘Six by Six’ Build
Habitat for Humanity of Springfield, MO is working with multiple organizations, individuals, and businesses to complete SIX homes between March 1st and May 20th. This will ensure that those SIX families will be moved into their new homes before June 1! Download Habitat’s “Six by Six” brochure here. Habitat has SIX wonderful families who have been working very hard to …
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HBA Home Show Attendance Tops 13,000 – Vendors Call it Best Show in Years
The Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield’s annual Home Show concluded on Sunday, January 29 with hundreds of exhausted but happy vendors and exhibitors packing up their wares to exit the downtown Springfield Expo Center. Overall attendance topped 13,100 for the show – once again reinforcing the HBA Home Show as the region’s largest consumer trade show. The HBA Home …
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Area News Media Highlights What 2012 HBA Home Show Offered Customers
The area’s news media coverage of the HBA Home Show began with extensive coverage in last week’s Springfield Business Journal, continued with a Thursday front-page preview of the show in the Springfield News-Leader, and didn’t let up from there. KTTS and KSGF radio news reports covered the event. And, on Saturday, listeners to KSGF heard a two-hour broadcast of their …
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HBA Home Show Opens Friday: See it ALL in One Place!
The Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield will open the doors to its annual Home Show in just one week, promising a big helping of what’s new, along with the tried and true favorites. The 2012 HBA Home Show has everything to inspire your next home improvement or building project – all under one roof. Attendees of the 2012 HBA Home Show (which …
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