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w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m N o v e m b e r 2 0 17 • I NSIGH T | 37 The city of Sheboygan approved a 400-acre expansion of the Sheboygan Business Center in 2017. The new site is adjacent to the nearly full existing business park. Land acquisition and infrastructure work are expected to start in 2018. MEMBER Y E A R S 1997-2017 140, it's still not keeping pace. "e opportunity is there, we just need to change the current mindset," he says, noting that many builders in the county construct several high- end, custom homes each year. "What we might need is a Levittown-type development to catch up." Built in 1947, Levittown was a planned housing development of modest houses that were built in an assembly-line manner, maximizing economies of scale and providing a large supply of affordable housing to meet demand. More than 17,000 houses were built in four years. "I think we all want the same thing," Krisi Kaiser, executive director of the Sheboygan County Home Builders Association, says. "But in many ways, the builders are still catching up from the recession, and now demand has just exploded." Most homebuilders in Sheboygan are already building more homes than they ever have before, Kaiser says. She says she has had discussion with some builders who are more than 35 houses ahead of their previous year's pace. Given the current labor shortage for construction, most builders have reached their maximum capacity. "We want to build as many homes as we can, but we also have to realize we don't have the workforce and we also want to make sure we are taking care of the clients as well," she says. [continued] » P H O T O C O U R T E S Y O F S H E B O Y G A N C O U N T Y E C O N O M I C D E V E L O P M E N T C O R P.