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Meet GSABA

Builder Member,

Steve Louis of

Bella Vista Homes

Steve’s Journey the Greater San Antonio Builders Association (GSABA).
Steve has been a member of GSABA for 10 years and
Steve Louis was born and raised in Overland Park,
Kansas. He attended the University of Nebraska at has been actively volunteering at GSABA for 7 years.
Lincoln and worked his way through college as a Steve has been married to his best friend, Tami, for 18
construction worker on home sites for local homebuilders years and they have a 17 year old son, Parker, and a 15
doing a variety of jobs. He was a member and leader of year old daughter, Payton. The Louis’ love living in San
the Phil Delta Theta Fraternity where he served as Rush Antonio and have a great network of friends that they
Chairman, House Manager and Chapter President. enjoy traveling with. They get together often to share
meals, tailgate and watch sports. Steve’s family is his
After graduating from the University of Nebraska
at Lincoln in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree first priority and when he can, he works in a round of
in Construction Management, Steve then secured a golf or a fishing trip!
Construction Superintendent position with Milburn
Homes in Austin, TX. He knew he had found his calling
and felt a great sense of pride being part of the
construction team building new homes. Milburn Homes
was purchased by D.R. Horton Homes and Steve was
promoted to Product Development Manager and was
relocated to San Antonio, TX.
After he moved to San Antonio, Steve was on the
D.R. Horton team that worked with Architects on the
company’s floor plan designs as well as community
entrances. In 2003, D.R. Horton promoted Steve to Vice
President of Operations for the Rio Grande Valley and
Laredo markets where he led the Operations Team for The Value of Being a GSABA
four years. In 2007, the company promoted him to Vice
President of Purchasing and relocated him back to San Member by Steve Louis
Antonio, TX. Steve was laid off from D.R. Horton in 2008 When I sat down to write this article, I stopped for
and hired by Bella Vista Homes the same year. a minute to ask myself “How have I benefitted from
Steve is the Division President of Bella Vista Homes, being a member of GSABA?” Due to the nature of our
a privately owned home builder that builds over 450 Association and all the many things it does for our
homes annually in San Antonio and surrounding members and the home building industry, I realized
cities. He served as Area 4 Vice President for the Texas that not everyone will become a member for the
Association of Builders (TAB) and is a past President of same reason. So… back to the question I asked myself.

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