Stealth giant: secretive Maronda Homes is a housing giant, but the company doesn't want you...

Let's just call this Part II of our 2003 report on housing's GIANTS because we found one we missed before our April issue closed. In fact, we've missed elusive, Pittsburgh-based Maronda Homes every year for a long time. This stealth GIANT has been flying under the industry radar, and it's no accident. The company wants to be invisible.

"Maronda is very secretive," says Jeff Bird, president of Pittsburgh Construction News. "Bill Wolf is a very private guy, and he wants the world to know as little as possible about his company and how it operates."

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