Builders

The Best Charlotte Custom Home Builders Converge at McLean
The approved McLean builder group includes a host of builders known for high quality designs and craftsmanship. Each of these builders has been working on design plans especially tailored to McLean’s setting on Lake Wylie and the architectural styles envisioned for the community. Our builder team will continue to grow so please check back often.
South Shore Custom Builders
Andrew Roby Signature Homes
Andrew Roby Signature Homes works hand in hand with homeowners, architects and designers to create each client’s dream home. For more than 70 years, Andrew Roby has crafted memorable one-of-a-kind homes across the Carolinas while restoring some of the Charlotte region’s premier historic homes – including Latta Place, Rosedale Plantation, John Price Carr House in the heart of uptown, Dr. George E. Davis House at Johnson C. Smith University and VanLandingham Estate in Plaza Midwood. Family-owned and operated since 1950, Andrew Roby will provide unsurpassed craftsmanship, fine materials and customer service for life in helping you create your own enduring home in historic McLean.
Arthur Rutenberg Homes
Arthur Rutenberg Homes seeks to deliver an exceptional building experience and a home as legendary as its name. Founder Arthur Rutenberg established America’s largest family of luxury-home builders, and Rutenberg’s Paragon Homes provides every McLean homebuyer the same core values that have made the Rutenberg name legendary since 1953. Choose from more than 80 award-winning architectural plans. Experience Rutenberg’s unrivaled network of over 45 furnished model homes across the Southeast — a living catalog of designs you can see and touch. And, with Design Studios, Rutenberg’s expert interior designers are always there to help make your McLean home truly “model home” beautiful.
J. Barwick Construction
J. Barwick Construction offers its clients a boutique-style atmosphere with personable and impeccable service throughout the home-building process. President Jason Barwick’s passion is working on residences that are architecturally designed and driven with quality of construction held in very high regard. Barwick goes to great lengths to pick the right partners for the job and then assist them and guide them in any way possible. He also strives to make the construction process as seamless as possible for homebuyers, from architectural development, estimating and budgeting through construction. Discriminating homebuyers who value both quality of product and effective relationships will enjoy working with J. Barwick Construction.
McSpadden Custom Homes
A Professional, Predictable, Detailed and Systematic Approach to Design/Build Custom Home building. This approach by McSpadden Custom Homes has earned numerous Awards for custom luxury homes in the past 28 years they have been building on the Shores of Lake Wylie. As Owner and Honors Graduate Architect, Doug McSpadden grew up on the Lake and lives just minutes from McLean. He launched his Lake Wylie-based company focused on “honesty, diligence and excellence.” McSpadden Custom Homes works with the best artisans in the industry to ensure that every aspect of the building process is evaluated and implemented with the same care and value system as the McSpadden team. The result is a fresh approach to the development and construction of your McLean home that transcends the expected.
Jain Design Studio
As an architect and builder, Jain Design Studio carefully designs custom homes around the lifestyle and dream of every client, and then brings each unique home to life. With specific care to detail and state-of-the art construction methods, each custom home receives the highest level of attention – from design through execution. Working with an architect that is also the builder ensures a complete synergy as your ideas and input are transformed from a house into a home. Jain Design Studio recognizes that each piece of land in McLean has a story to tell, and using the lay of the land as an influence will allow each home to have its own distinctive design.
South Shore Estate Builders
Peachtree Residential
Peachtree Residential was founded 27 years ago on the commitment to building fine homes that add to homeowners’ quality of life. Innovative designs, quality craftsmanship and superior service have resulted in thousands of satisfied homeowners in Georgia and North Carolina. Peachtree Residential offers dozens of home designs and will tailor them for your personal style. The sales team then works closely with homebuyers to ensure that every home is ideally suited to the family that will live in it. Peachtree promises full customer satisfaction before closing on a home and has earned a stellar reputation for proactive, high-touch warranty work – ensuring McLean residents the confidence they deserve in their new home.

Overlake Builders
Evans Coghill Homes
Empire Communities
As one of North America’s largest family-owned homebuilders, Empire Communities is committed to enriching our homeowner’s lives through carefully selected locations, purposeful home designs and a personalized home buying experience. Our experienced and dedicated team of designers, sales and construction professionals will guide you through the entire process of turning your dream home into a reality. With a foundation of caring for our teams, our customers and the communities in which we build, our goal is to continue to grow, innovate, and create inspiring new places to live. We’re proud to say we’ve built more than 28,000 homes in seven regions over the past 25+ years, growing slowly and maintaining our family-owned-and-operated feel.
Tri Pointe Homes
McLean Overlake Model and New Home Gallery – Open Now
McLean South Shore Model and New Home Gallery – Debuting Early Spring 2022
Tri Pointe Homes is a leading new home builder, known for setting trends and paving new paths forward. One of the nation’s largest homebuilders, we create homes and neighborhoods that make a premium lifestyle possible for our customers—whatever their price point or life stage. As local specialists on a national scale, we are customer-driven and committed to environmentally responsible business practices and enduring craftsmanship. We don’t just focus on life inside the home—we believe in building community in every sense of the word, from the connected locations we select to our commitment to social responsibility.
Our passion for design and innovation and our people-first philosophy are recognized throughout the industry and prized by our team members. Tri Pointe Homes exists to exceed our homebuyers’ expectations and truly enhance their lives.