Gloucester City Residents & J.S. Hovnanian Help Build Extreme Makeover Home
Photo: from left to right , Councilman Nicholas Marchese, Site Development Manager with J.S. Hovnanian, Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover Home Edition, and Don Yoos, Director of Construction with J.S. Hovnanian
On July 30th on Federal Street in Pennsauken the Extreme Makeover team and local builder, J. S. Hovnanian & Sons, Inc. along with hundreds of trade contractors built a home in less than 100 hours. This home was completed with the utmost speed and quality to help a family from Camden, the Marerro's. The family moved in Monday and is doing well.
Gloucester City Councilman Nicholas Marchese is a Site Development Manager with J.S. Hovnanian and was a part of the building of this home. When asked what was the best part of this experience Nick replied, " the ability to bring so many different trades together and have them all helping each other is something that's not normally done. On this project we made the impossible, possible. I'm proud to have been a part of this endeavor and thank the Hovnanian family for the opportunity to help."
With everyday being 90 plus degrees the entire team worked very hard to bring this special job in on time. Gloucester City helped by donating 1000 bottles of water to the effort. 
Photo:Our local massage therapist, Marika DeTot of Back to Front on Kings Street donated her time both morning and night massaging the weary workers so they could continue working.
Many local restaurants and food providers donated food the entire week. Hundreds of organizations were involved in making this project a success.
The Marerro family will have the future help of the Extreme Makeover team to run this home economically and efficiently. They continue to monitor each and every home they have built to date to make sure each project remains a success.
Photo: Gene McLeer, of J.S. Hovnanian, Tonya McQueen, from Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Councilman Marchese, and Paul DiMeo, from Extreme Makeover Home Edition.
Wow, very cool! I wish I had known about this...I would have loved to donate or simply be a part of this. Way to go Nick!
Posted by: TG | August 14, 2007 at 10:43 PM