Chaska Home Builders

Black Dog Homes, founded in 2006 by Dan Vanderheyden as Black Dog Remodeling, is a Wayzata-based custom home builder and remodeler focused on the Lake Minnetonka area. The firm handles custom new homes and major renovations — additions, whole-home, main-level, and lower-level remodels — with a team approach that aligns builder, architect, and interior designer from the start of a project. Its site credits the firm with Parade of Homes Dream Home projects in Wayzata in 2018, 2021, and 2022.

Boyer Building Corporation is a four-generation family firm — started in 1949 as Joe Boyer Building and renamed Boyer Building Corporation in 1983 — building and remodeling from Minnetonka for over 70 years. The company keeps design and construction under one roof, with full-time carpenters (many with the firm for decades), field supervisors, and project managers on staff. It builds new homes, handles design-build remodels from kitchens and baths to multi-space renovations, and takes on light commercial work from its Minnetonka headquarters.

Castle Gate Construction is a family-owned builder and remodeler based in Victoria, founded by Dan Kurth in 1996. The company serves clients throughout the Twin Cities with custom home construction, new construction, porches, decks, and kitchen and basement remodeling, and maintains communication with homeowners from initial planning through a one-year walk-through.

DDK Construction is a family-owned, full-service construction company based in Chaska that builds custom homes, multi-family dwellings, and commercial properties throughout the Twin Cities metro. It provides design, build, and construction management services, keeps many levels of the construction process in-house for control over cost, quality, and schedule, and runs a full-service showroom in Chaska where clients select fixtures and finishes with its design team.

Hansen Builders — the evolving name of Hansen Hometech, Inc. — is a Chanhassen remodeler whose roots go back to 1962, when Doug Hansen and Tom Klingelhutz founded Hansen & Klingelhutz Construction. The firm later incorporated as Hansen Hometech and shifted its focus toward design and remodeling; today Doug's son Gary Hansen and grandson Charlie Hansen carry the work forward. It handles home remodels including kitchens, bathrooms, additions, and exterior living, plus select commercial projects, across Chanhassen and the southwest metro.

KDR Homes is a specialty custom builder led by owner Dustin Koosman, who has been building homes for over 20 years and created KDR Homes, LLC in 2017. The company worked with homeowners for years in the Willmar, Spicer, and Green Lake areas of Minnesota before its recent expansion into the Chaska market, and has built homes throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. Acting as both the designer and builder, KDR keeps buyers involved every step of the way, from designing a custom floor plan to selecting interior and exterior finishes.

Xpand, Inc is a family-owned Shakopee construction company, established in 2004, specializing in custom home building and remodeling with over 100 years of combined team experience. Its listed specialties run from design-build work, home additions, custom remodeling, kitchens, and basement finishes to decks, porches, and multi-activity athletic courts, including unique spaces like man caves and accessible designs, serving the Twin Cities metro area.

Lennar is a national production builder offering single-family homes, townhomes, and multifamily communities in Twin Cities suburbs including Lakeville, Woodbury, Blaine, Rogers, and Maple Grove, and holds active Minnesota residential building contractor license BC001413. Housing First Minnesota's 2025 Top 25 list has ranked it the metro's largest homebuilder by volume for 20 consecutive years.

M/I Homes is a national homebuilder whose commitment to building a quality home and treating customers right was set forth by founders Melvin and Irving Schottenstein in 1976; its site reports over 50 years and more than 170,000 homes built, starting in Columbus, Ohio and now serving 17 markets across the U.S. In the Twin Cities it builds single-family homes and townhomes, framing its approach around quality, care, and design.