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BuiLder And AssoCiAte of the yeAr
Most-contributing members honored
for hard work and dedication to HBaV
2011/12 Builder of the year
C. Richard Napier (Richmond) with Napier Signature Homes in Powhatan
was selected as the 2011/12 HBAV Builder of the Year.
A member of the Home Building Association of Richmond, he has
served as president of his local and the state association and continues to
be a very active member of both.
Napier formerly chaired the HBAV Legislative Committee and came
to understand quickly that the key to much of HBAV’s legislative success is
the result of grassroots politics and political action. He has been a member
of the HBAV Build-PAC Capitol Club for the past 10 years.
In 2011 and 2012, he tirelessly served as the chairman of HBAV Build-PAC,
leading it to outstanding collection heights in this difficult housing climate.
2011/12 Associate of the year
Richard A. Costello with AES Consulting Engineers in Williamsburg
was selected as the 2011/12 HBAV Associate of the Year.
A well-respected civil engineer who is a very active member of the
Peninsula Housing & Builders Association, he is an HBAV Build-PAC
trustee and an important member of the HBAV Legislative Committee.
In late 2011, Costello led an effort of PHBA and HBAV to have James
City County implement the HBAV legislation that delayed the payment
of per-lot cash proffers until the certificate of occupancy stage of home
construction. The county claimed the legislation was not retroactive to
cash proffers formed before July 1, 2010.
When the county refused to adhere to the legislation and sought a local
circuit court declaration to only make the legislation prospective, Costello
led the efforts of PHBA and the local developers to defend the legislation.
Without his leadership on this issue, it is likely the county’s efforts would
have gone completely unchallenged in the circuit court, and builders across
all of Virginia could have lost the significant benefits of that 2010 legislative
victory for HBAV and its builder and developer members.
But the victory doesn’t stop there. Following a brief hearing on the
issue in Williamsburg, the judge ruled in favor of the builders. He ordered
the county to pay all association members’ legal fees, as well as those of
PHBA and HBAV. HBAV
30 HBaV annual RepoRt 2012
Leading the charge
Two of the Home Builders Association of Virginia’s most coveted titles—the Associate of the Year and the
Builder of the Year—are presented annually to the association’s “most valuable and most contributing” members
in the past year. Their names are engraved on plaques that hang in the HBAV boardroom of the
Stewart-Lee House in Richmond. The 2011/12 winners are:
(Above) Heralded for his work as chairman of the HBAV Legislative Committee, Rich
Napier (left) was honored as 2011/12 Builder of the Year. He’s seen here with 2012
President Richard Bogese. (Below) Richard A. Costello (left) with AES Consulting Engineers
in Williamsburg accepts his 2011/12 HBAV Associate of the Year award from 2012
President Richard Bogese. Costello is credited for his efforts to defend legislation that delayed
the payment of per-lot cash proffers.