History of Sunrise Housing

The story of Sunrise Housing that came to be what it is today started in 1969. Jim and La Donna Lewer and their 5 children were living in Des Moines and decided they would like to have their own business. The business they invested in was Sunrise Mobile Home Park, located in Iowa Falls, Iowa.

For ten plus years, they lived in Iowa Falls and sold mobile homes. In 1982, they took the sales operation to a new location on the south edge of Iowa Falls where they could inventory up to ten new "sectionals" and single-wide "manufactured homes."

During this time, their youngest son, Jack, received an Engineering Degree from ISU in 1989. After a brief stint with Ingersoll-Rand in Dallas, Texas, Jack and his wife Penny and daughter Chelsey returned to Iowa in 1991, and the family business.

In 1993, Jack became the manager of Sunrise Housing. The business soon outgrew its current location, so in 1995, they purchased the old drive-in theater located further south of Iowa Falls. This location offered plenty of room, enabling them to carry a larger inventory and variety of homes.

In June of 1999, Jack and his wife Penny took over the operation from his parents. Since that time, Sunrise Housing has increased their inventory up to twenty-plus homes including single-section, double sectionals, triple sectionals, 2-section ranch modulars, 4-section ranch modulars and Cape Cod series homes.

Currently Sunrise Housing focuses on truly custom designed modular and manufactured homes that are built in either Minnesota or Wisconsin. Our volume sales of homes have increased from approximately twenty-five in 1991 to well over one hundred twenty plus homes statewide in 2001.