WCI Communities

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WCI Communities, Inc. is an American home builder. The company offers single family and condominium homes. WCI also provides design, construction, financing, land purchases, marketing, and community management services. The company operates Prudential Florida WCI Realty Division, mortgage, and title businesses. WCI is based in Bonita Springs, Florida with regional offices in New York and Virginia. The home builder has developed communities in Florida, the Northeastern United States, and the Mid-Atlantic United States. WCI also manages clubhouses, golf courses, restaurants, and marinas in some of the communities it develops.

WCI was founded in 1946 as Coral Ridge Properties which evolved into a division of the old Westinghouse Electric Corp. In 2002, WCI Communities, Inc. issued an Initial Public Offering and became a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol: WCI. WCI's current (2007) Chief Executive Officer and President is Jerry L. Starkey. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn became Chairman of WCI in August 2007.

The National Association of Home Builders and Builder Magazine named WCI "America's Best Builder" in 2004.^[1]

In January 2007, the company was featured on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Together with volunteers, sub-contractors, local businesses, and Tampa Bay area residents, WCI rebuilt a home in 96 hours for the Tate Family on Davis Island who had lost their home in a plane crash.^[2]