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Gene
Whitehurst and his partner, Karol Ponicsan started a partnership 50
years ago and they haven’t stopped building yet. As teenagers,
Whitehurst and Ponicsan met through girlfriends. They double-dated
and when Whitehurst got married, Ponicsan served as best man. After
that, there was no stopping the friendship that expanded into a
business partnership in 1954 and led to the formation of P & W
Builders. Business prospered, if you don’t count the 1980’s when, as
Whitehurst likes to put it, “Times were so bad it was like the
Depression for anyone in the construction business.” But they
survived and went on to build 15 subdivisions and more than 3,500
houses throughout the Tri-County Area.
“You can’t go anywhere in a 50-mile radius and not see a house built
by P &W Builders,” insists Whitehurst. |
