Florida is one of Jim Walter Homes’ prime markets. Nine of its 91 model centers are in Florida, including one in Orlando that has been a fixture on West Colonial Drive, across from the Central ...

Jim Walter, known for building inexpensive homes on customer-owned lots, closed Tuesday. Though it built relatively few homes in Florida in recent years, the company's dissolution will cost 45 ...

So the company that was Jim Walter Homes that became Walter Industries and is now Walter Energy is calling it quits in Tampa after 60-plus years. The move to Birmingham will put Walter Energy an ...

The parent company of Jim Walter Homes is closing nearly half of its sales centers, including its Virginia locations in Roanoke and Richmond. Officials of Florida-based Walter Industries said ...

Registration for the Jim Walter Homes Bass Tournament, to benefit the Central Florida chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, is still open. The tournament will be held Sept. 10 with la… ...

Tampa, Fla.-based Walter Industries announced it is shutting the doors on its Jim Walter Homes subsidiary, a victim of the downturn in the housing industry after several years of losses.

After six decades and more than 350,000 homes, Jim Walter Homes closed for good Tuesday. The move affected three sales centers in South Carolina, including one in Goose Creek. Jim Walter died in 2000.

The parent company of Jim Walter Homes, which operates a branch in Houston, has shut down its home-building business. Tampa, Fla.-based Walter Industries, a natural resource and energy company ...

Walter Industries Inc. is closing 36 Jim Walter Homes sales centers, including a center in Tampa, and cutting the workforce in its financing and homebuilding business segment by 25 percent.

The parent company of Jim Walter Homes is closing nearly half of its sales centers, including its Virginia locations in Roanoke and Richmond. Officials of Florida-based Walter Industries told ...

Walter Industries of Tampa, Fla., closed its Jim Walter Homes business, which has a Beaumont office, but it's not a reflection on the Southeast Texas market, local builders said. Jim Walter Homes ...

Mid-State Homes Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tampa-based Walter IndustriesInc., announced that it completed its Mid-State Trust XI offering of $314 million in asset-backed bonds.