Building one man's success

Published: 9/29/2012 3:38 PM | Last update: 9/29/2012 11:22 PM

That business, Mark Borecky Construction, 1001 N. Main, Suite C, is the Hutchinson / Reno County Chamber of Commerce September Small Business of the Month.

In "serious need of a job," however, he was offered a position by Ricky Blackburn, the father of a friend of his girlfriend, to help hang house siding in northern Kansas and southern Nebraska for $5 an hour.

"I stayed with Ricky a few years and in 1993 broke out on my own," Borecky said, starting his own siding and window installation business.

At one point he had three siding crews working for him around the area.

That business put him in regular touch with Darren Cook, a wholesale siding supplier who decided he wanted to get out of that business and invited Borecky to join him in building houses.

"The first two we built for ourselves" on lots next to each other, Borecky said, and from which he "learned a fair amount" about homebuilding.

"One of the biggest helps to me was Dave Childs," Borecky said. "He was the city building inspector at the time, and later went on to do his own heating and air and electrical business. He was my eyes and ears. I was extremely blessed by that for sure."

After selling those houses, they bought some in-fill lots on Amanda Street and built some more, Borecky said. After about 2 1/2 years, Cook split off on his own "to build more upscale houses," Borecky said.

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