On October 14, 2023 over three hundred volunteers from sixteen companies descended on the Rinconcito colonia on the eastern outskirts of Tijuana to participate in Baja Challenge. Rinconcito is a poor area with hundreds of families living in poverty. Many living in little more than homes constructed from discarded pallets, cardboard and other scrap materials. Over the course of a single day the volunteers built twenty-one new homes for families, giving them a weatherproof and safe home.
This was the 23rd edition of Baja Challenge organized by Devin Beale of Black Diamond Construction. This year sixteen companies from San Diego’s real estate/building and related industries raised the money for the materials for each of twenty-one houses ($7,000 for the house and an additional $800 for an outdoor toilet) and sent a construction team which built all of the homes in a single day. Each team worked side by side with the family for whom the house was being built along with help from Project Mercy Baja construction’s crew.
At the end of the day each family was presented with the keys to their new, safe, weather tight, newly painted home.
Many thanks to all involved who made this happen. It was a truly special day.
Companies
Belmont Park
Black Diamond Construction
CBRE
Constructicons / GMA
Cushman & Wakefield with Burger Construction
DGA
Digital Building Components
DPR
Gary Stemple Rotary Club
JLL
McCormick-JWC Construction
Sombrero
Vesta
Ware Malcomb
Whitaker Corporation
Whiting-Turner
Belmont Park
Black Diamond Construction
CBRE
Constructicons / GMA
DGA
Digital Building Components, DPR, DPR PHX
Gary Stemple Rotary Club
McCormick-JWC Construction
Sombrero
Ware Malcomb – Vesta – D.A Whitaker
Whiting-Turner
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