Workforce Housing for the People Building Southern Louisiana’s Future
Crew Ground Housing LLC develops safe, comfortable, and professionally managed accommodations for the skilled workers supporting Starbase Louisiana and other major projects across the region.
Our goal is straightforward: give tradespeople, engineers, construction professionals, technical crews, and other traveling workers a dependable place to call home while they are on assignment.
Built for Working People
Major projects bring skilled people together from across the country. Those workers need more than a temporary parking space—they need a clean, secure, and comfortable place where they can rest, recharge, and feel at home between shifts.
Crew Ground Housing plans to develop extended-stay RV communities and is evaluating workforce lodges and other forms of accommodation. Each facility will be planned around the practical needs of working residents and the businesses that employ them.
Supporting a Growing Regional Workforce
Crew Ground Housing is initially focused on Vermilion Parish and the surrounding Acadiana region, including Abbeville, Kaplan, Erath, Delcambre, Perry, and neighboring communities.
The planned Starbase Louisiana development and related aerospace, engineering, construction, logistics, energy, infrastructure, and industrial activity are expected to bring new workforce-housing needs to the region.
We are preparing to meet those needs thoughtfully—by identifying appropriate sites, understanding employer demand, working through local approval processes, and developing facilities suited to both their residents and their locations.
For Employers and Project Teams
Help Us Understand Your Housing Needs
We invite businesses anticipating temporary or extended-stay workforce needs to submit a nonbinding expression of interest.
Early conversations about crew size, assignment duration, preferred locations, accommodation types, parking, transportation, and services will help us plan facilities around real operating requirements.
We welcome inquiries from:
Construction companies
Engineering and technical firms
Aerospace contractors
Industrial and energy companies
Infrastructure providers
Logistics and transportation businesses
Government contractors
Other employers bringing workers to the region
Creating the Right Places
Good workforce housing begins with choosing the right location and planning it responsibly. Crew Ground Housing evaluates access to worksites, transportation, utilities, drainage, local services, environmental conditions, and the needs of the people who will live there.
We also consider how each development will fit within its surroundings. We intend to work constructively with landowners, municipalities, public agencies, local businesses, and neighboring property owners throughout the planning and approval process.
Our goal is to create safe, professionally managed workforce housing that serves its residents, operates responsibly, and complements the community in which it is located. Being a good neighbor is part of how we intend to plan, build, and operate every Crew Ground Housing community.
Experienced Development Leadership
Crew Ground Housing was founded by John T. Pugh II and Stephen Christy, who bring complementary experience across real estate investment, finance, architecture, civil engineering, land development, approvals, construction, and project execution.
Stephen Christy
Stephen Christy is a Co-Founder and Principal of Crew Ground Housing. He has more than 30 years of experience in land development, site acquisition, and civil permitting, with a track record of moving complex projects from land identification and control through approvals and development.
For the past 13 years, Stephen has served as President and CEO of Sustainable Energy Professionals, a Tampa-based firm focused on assembling and developing sites for large-scale solar projects across Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, and New York. Over his career, he has placed more than 50,000 acres under option or lease and helped bring more than 2 gigawatts of projects to completion.
His experience combines land acquisition, landowner negotiations, permitting, utility coordination, and working with local boards and government agencies. At Crew Ground Housing, Stephen applies that experience to identifying, acquiring, permitting, and developing well-planned workforce housing communities.
John T. Pugh
John T. Pugh is a Co-Founder and Principal of Crew Ground Housing. He is a real estate investor and developer with more than 20 years of experience across capital formation, design, construction, and development. Over his career, he has participated in more than $1.85 billion of real estate activity involving multifamily, mixed-use, commercial, and industrial properties.
John is the Founder and Managing Partner of Pugh Capital Partners, where his work spans real estate investment, development, and strategic partnerships. He holds a Master of Architecture from MIT and a Bachelor of Science in Business and Finance from Fordham University and is a licensed architect.
His experience combines financial analysis, design, project planning, partnership formation, and hands-on development execution. At Crew Ground Housing, John applies that multidisciplinary background to development strategy, site planning, capital formation, and creating well-designed workforce housing communities that respond to the practical needs of workers, employers, and their surrounding communities.
A Better Temporary Home for the People Doing Important Work
Crew Ground Housing is laying the groundwork for professionally managed workforce accommodations in southern Louisiana.
We want to hear from employers planning for future crews, landowners considering the future of their property, and organizations interested in supporting responsible regional growth.
Crew Ground Housing LLC is an independent workforce-housing developer and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by SpaceX.
Let’s Start a Conversation
Crew Ground Housing is building relationships with the people who can help shape workforce housing in southern Louisiana. We want to hear from landowners considering a sale or partnership, employers anticipating accommodations for their crews, and organizations interested in supporting responsible regional development.
Whether your plans are immediate or still taking shape, tell us what you are considering. An early conversation can help us understand the opportunity and determine whether there is a good fit.