From the ground up: Belton native helps Temple Area Builders Association grow

Photos by Julie Nabours and contributed by Kacie Beevers

Kacie Beevers, executive officer for the Temple Area Builders Association, understands how much hard work goes into building a home.

She is the second of five siblings born to parents Michael and Tammy Beevers. She grew up on a Belton ranch in a home that her father built from the ground up. In fact, her family lived in the basement while her father built the additional levels of the home, with a little help from his daughters.

“I got a bedroom for Christmas one year,” she said.

The house rose to three stories, five bedrooms (one for their parents, one for each daughter) and four and a half baths. When her little brother came along some years later, her mom converted an office space for the addition to their family.

“It was a labor of love,” she said, about living in a home built by her dad, who is an owner/broker with DB Commercial Real Estate. “There is so much heart in that home.”

Growing up on a ranch taught Beevers responsibility at a young age. She helped her dad build fences, herd cattle, and tackle other ranch chores before she and her siblings could do anything fun. They had horses, goats, dogs, cats and cows, but no cable television or video games. Her parents were strict.

“We each got to pick one activity,” she said. “I played soccer from 4 years old through high school and also played club ball.” When she wanted to watch the latest Disney movie she walked to her grandmother’s house — she had cable.

One year her brother asked for an X-Box as an activity. Instead their dad tasked the siblings with building their own tree house, with his help of course.

Beevers, a 2007 graduate of Belton High School, took a roundabout way to earning her degrees, starting out at Blinn College in Bryan. But she wasn’t sure she wanted to pursue and took a break from school to regroup.

Strong work ethic

When she asked her dad if she could move back home, he agreed, with the condition that she work. She took a job at a day care center in 2009 and by 2011 she earned her associates of arts in business from Blinn. In 2016, she graduated from her parent’s alma mater, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, with a BA in mass communications and public relations.

Beevers worked full time with her dad while attending UMHB, and was able to coordinate her work schedule to accommodate her daytime online classes. When she wasn’t working, she was at home studying

“Working with dad, he wasn’t easy on me,” she said. “He worked me harder, was harder on me.”

Her education and life experience have prepared her for the position at the Temple Area Builders Association. Her duties are varied and include planning and coordinating the organization’s major events — the Home and Garden show in February and the upcoming Parade of Homes. She also works on annual member-only events and is responsible for retaining and recruiting members.

“TABA offers two types of memberships,” she said. “Members who are builders and associate members who are anyone working in homebuilding, but not necessarily a home builder. That could be an insurance or title company, painter, banker, anything to do with members, just someone who is not a builder,” she explained.

Beevers has a committee that helps with event logistics but ultimately, “It is my job; my responsibility. I’m the one who develops relationships with the members. I’m on site at all times.”

“Kacie is the face of the Temple Area Builders Association,” said Marty Janczak, director of governmental affairs for TABA. “She answers the phone, talks to people, greets them at the door, and is responsible for membership, the Parade of Homes and the Homes and Garden Show. She is very well organized with a great sense of responsibility and she takes her job very seriously.”

With the Homes and Garden Show behind her, Beevers rolled right into the upcoming member golf tournament, and the TABA Parade of Homes set for May 11-13, and 18-20.

“We started to finalize who is participating, coordinating to see how many houses we have this year,” Beevers said. “We are at the forefront with logistics. If we have to change something there is enough time to change it.”

In between planning events, she keeps up with her daily office responsibilities. She checks off tasks on her to do lists and said if something goes wrong, it is her job to make it right.

“I don’t want anything to fall through the cracks. I report to the boards of the Texas Association of Builders and TABA, and want to make them proud,” she said.

Beevers, 29, credits her parents for instilling in her the value of hard work. “Looking back, I wouldn’t have the work ethic I have today if I hadn’t worked alongside both of my parents,” she said.

Her hope for the future: To leave a legacy. “No matter what I do or where I am employed, I want to leave it better than how I found it,” she said.