AVB, Inc.

AVB was formed in 1981 by Joe Gesmundo and Daryl Rynd, who shared a passion for creating great places to live and work. Together, AVB’s founding principals collaborated on the Kalamazoo area’s premier master-planned community, Woodbridge Hills. This visionary mixed-use community includes a retail center, medical and surgical buildings, office buildings, luxury condominiums, upscale private residences, and a private golf course. Today, AVB is a leading regional construction and development firm, dedicated to building great homes, buildings, and developments.

AVB’s commercial construction portfolio includes projects such as the Ascension Borgess Surgery Expansion, the Stryker Corporation World Headquarters, Portage Public Schools, the AIA award winning Newell Brands International Design Center, Consumers Credit Union Headquarters, and the LEED Gold certified 400 Rose apartments in downtown Kalamazoo. Significant renovation projects include the Green Building of America Award-winning Educational Community Credit Union (now Arbor Financial) on 9th Street, Cole Nissan dealership in Kalamazoo, Ascension Borgess at Woodbridge Hills South, Kalamazoo Maple Street YMCA, and the Ignertia Building brownfield redevelopment project in downtown Kalamazoo.

AVB’s development portfolio includes over a billion dollars’ worth of projects in Southwest Michigan. These projects include residential condominium communities like Oakland Hills, Whisper Rock, Walden Woods, as well as single-family home communities like The Homestead, Barrington Shores, The Marshes, Turning Stone, and Hidden Lake. Additionally, AVB has developed apartment communities such as Greenspire in Portage, MI, as well as commercial developments such as Corner @ Drake in Kalamazoo, Westgate in Portage, and the Trade Centre in Portage, which all include restaurant, retail, and office establishments.