Less rattle, more hum

The RV industry is revving up, again, and Coach House, a south Sarasota County manufacturer of a niche line of motor homes, aims to get ahead of the competition.

One way to do that, says Coach House President David Gerzeny, who co-founded the company with his brother, Steve Gerzeny, in 1985, is to take more control of the manufacturing process. The company, with that in mind, is having a 13,000-square-foot addition built on to its 30,000-square-foot facility. It's a $1.5 million project, overseen by Lakewood Ranch-based Halfacre Construction. Halfacre built the original Coach House building in 1995, and built the company's RV dealership in nearby Osprey.

“We have gotten more and more into the manufacturing process,” Gerzeny tells Coffee Talk. “It warrants us having more room.”