• Darling Homes was a joint effort by three brothers – Bill, Bob and Steve Darling – to catch the wave of Dallas expansion that they saw set to flow north from the city in 1987.
• They pooled their experience in custom building and commercial real estate and formed the company. That was 2,000 homes ago.
• The company went on to include other markets while still building in Stonebridge, and it became the 59th largest of the Top 100 home builders in the country even though it has stuck to the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets.

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Dallas-based home builder Darling Homes has closed on its final home in Stonebridge Ranch, one of McKinney's best-known master-planned communities, ending a 25-year run during which it built more than 2,000 homes. ...