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.
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.