Our Mission
We fulfill families’ dreams by creating an exceptional home ownership experience with extraordinary customer service.
For over 25 years, WestWind Homes has been building award-winning homes in vibrant communities. We deliver quality and craftsmanship in every home we build. Welcome to the WestWind Homes experience.
Our Vision
At WestWind, our team of dedicated professionals is building the house that your family will want to call home. We have the commitment, the experience, and the team to build you the best home at the best price. Together, we are making Laredo, McAllen, Edinburg, San Juan, Weslaco, and Alamo a better place to live.
Core Values
WestWind Homes strives to model a Godly corporation by serving our customers’ needs as exemplified by the True Servant, Jesus Christ. We will seek to optimize rather than maximize profits by operating under biblical principles; taking into account customer loyalty, fair and just service and the ability to positively impact our community.
Our Leadership
Our team of dedicated professionals has decades of experience in building award-winning homes and vibrant communities. They help form a foundation of excellence for your home building experience.
Corporate Purpose and Culture Statement
WestWind Homes strives to model a Godly Corporation by serving our customer’s needs as exemplified by the True Servant, Jesus Christ.
WestWind commits to steward the resources entrusted to us without exploiting their sources, producing a fair return for our investors, and returning a tithe to God for their use.
We seek to provide the benefits, value, and service our customers want by continually and creatively solving complex production and distribution problems with excellence.
We will seek to “optimize” rather than “maximize” profits by operating under biblical principles; taking into account customer loyalty, fair and just service, and the ability to positively impact our community.
We value racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity and respect the right of all employees to maintain a personal belief or faith while in turn respecting and adhering to the basic principals and policies that guide WestWind’s culture.
WestWind will strive to demonstrate care for our dedicated-employees by creating ownership for our workforce and investing in their personal, spiritual, and professional growth.
Our History
1993
AT THE FOREFRONT FROM THE BEGINNING.
WestWind Homes partners with the City of Laredo, Webb County, and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to form one of the most successful affordable housing communities in Texas. This groundbreaking partnership helps hundreds of new home buyers move into their very first home. From its inception, WestWind Homes has built high efficiency, award winning homes in an effort to make the dream of home ownership affordable.
1996
WESTWIND HELPS TO BUILD A BETTER HOME BUILDING COMMUNITY.
Chris Arthur becomes a member of the board of directors for the Laredo Builders Association. Together with other builders, Chris helps formulate policies and standards that will shape Laredo’s building industry.
1998
WESTWIND WINS PRESTIGIOUS EPA AWARD.
WestWind Homes was awarded one of the very first Energy Star Awards in the United States from the U.S. Department of Energy. From day one, the goal was to build homes people could afford long after the sale. It’s how we build to this very day.
2001
WESTWIND INFLUENCES BUILDING INDUSTRY
Chris Arthur was selected by his peers to lead the Laredo Builders Association as its president. This is a testament to the leadership his team and his company have shown in building homes and vibrant communities for almost a decade now.
2004
WESTWIND BECOMES MOST DECORATED BUILDER IN LAREDO, TX.
For the third year in a row, WestWind Homes wins the most Parade of Homes Awards. Awards ranging from Blue Ribbon Award & Best Interior Design Award for Parade of Homes. From energy efficiency to design to leadership awards, WestWind Homes has been setting the standard for others to follow. Always innovating, WestWind Homes introduces post tension stress cable foundations and certified construction methods to reduce costs and increase quality.
2008
WESTWIND EXPANDS TO NEW HORIZONS.
In 2008, WestWind Homes began operations in the Rio Grande Valley. Building on the success enjoyed in Laredo, WestWind brings their award winning ways to McAllen, Mission, Edinburg, and Weslaco. WestWind Homes has twice been awarded the RGV Builders Association’s Parade of Homes Best Home.Today, they are building vibrant communities throughout the upper valley.
2013
WESTWIND FOUNDER RECOGNIZED FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS.
WestWind Homes’ founder and president wins the first annual prestigious Cornerstone Award from the Laredo Builders Association. Along with other home building industry pioneers in Laredo, Chris Arthur was recognized with an award that exemplifies WestWind’s commitment to the communities it builds in.
2017
WESTWIND AWARDED TEXAS HIGH-PERFORMANCE HOME
WestWind Homes awarded the 2017 AEP Texas High-Performance Home Program Award for Highest Cumulative Savings. A high-performance home maximize energy efficiency, comfort, and durability. This means you get to enjoy lower utility bills.
2018
Westwind Homes Wins AEP High Performance and Premier Builder Awards
WestWind Homes awarded the 2018 AEP Texas High-Performance Home Program Award for Highest Kwh Savings.
2019
WESTWIND AWARDED PREMIER BUILDER AWARD
We are pleased to announce we have been recognized with the Premier Builder Award as part of the 2019 Annual Builder Achievement Awards Program through 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty (2-10 HBW). In addition to providing insurance-backed structural warranties, 2-10 HBW acknowledges outstanding performance in the home building industry. Every year they select builders who demonstrate skilled craftsmanship and construct inspired homes, while improving the quality of housing. The Premier Builder Award recognizes perceptive builders who respond well and adapt to changing market conditions. We have mastered growing our business to reach its full potential and sincerely understand homeowners’ expectations when delivering the latest in new home preferences.
