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THIS OLD HOUSE Host to Kick off Builder Blitz 2012

May 17, 2012

Grant & Company will join five other Memphis home builders in welcoming Steve Thomas, former host of the home improvement shows, This Old House and Renovation Nation, to Memphis on June 4 when the Emmy-winning television personality participates in the kickoff of Habitat for Humanity International Home Builders Blitz 2012. Grant is one of six home builders in Memphis who has stepped up to accept the challenge of building five homes in five days for Habitat for Humanity in the Trinity Park neighborhood in Memphis. The Memphis Area Home Builders Association has partnered with Habitat for Humanity to make this project possible. The nationwide project calls for the construction of more than 200 homes for needy families nationwide; 63 of those homes will be built across Tennessee. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. Memphis Habitat has built 400 homes in the Memphis area since its founding in 1983 and funded the construction of 59 homes abroad. Habitat houses are built with volunteer labor and sold to partner families, at no profit and with no interest charged. Partner families make a down payment and invest hundreds of hours of “sweat equity” into the construction of their homes and other Habitat homes. “It is a way for us to play forward all the blessings we have received over the years,” said Kim Grant Brown, owner of Kim Grant Homes and a member of the Grant & Company family of home builders. “We are happy to be a part of this exciting project. We are thrilled to be able to help a family achieve the American dream – homeownership.”