About Castlerock Enterprises, INC.

The Owner of CEI, Gretchen Yahn (Yahn), came to Virginia by way of Gainesville, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. Yahn started her quest for a Bachelor of Building Construction & Engineering degree in 1984 by attending the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. While pursuing her degree, Yahn started her career journey by working for McDevitt & Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Yahn worked as a project manager intern on some of Atlanta’s biggest commercial, construction undertakings; including the Georgia State University Library. Upon graduating in 1988, Yahn made the move to Washington, DC to be a senior project manager for Omni Construction on such well-known commercial construction projects as The Crowne Plaza Hotel at Metro Center, the Compri Hotel in Crystal City and her most publicized and awarded accomplishment, Reston Town Center.

Yahn departed Omni Construction in 1992 to commence on her own residential construction company, Castlerock Enterprises, Inc. (CEI). In Yahn’s ten years of operation, Yahn has been awarded four of the five industry’s most prestigious custom, residential building awards. Yahn has completed over forty custom, residential homes and renovations – and has erected many of Virginia’s most widely acclaimed and inspiring multi-million dollar estates.

In 2000, Yahn expanded her construction firm to better serve her clients. Yahn created a unique environment by providing a one-stop design and construction firm – where the home-building process from choosing the land to making selections to putting the final touches with landscape is completely at the client’s disposal. Yahn has partnered with top, nationwide designers, architects and consultants to bring the very best to her clients in one stop; her client relation offices are located in both Hume and Middleburg, Virginia.

Yahn also brought to her clients a 241-acre, vintage country development in Hume, Virginia. Thistle Hill Farm is a community of country homes dedicated to preserving the landscape and to building in the tradition of the Old Dominion. The new community debut their efforts to design vintage American farmhouses and construct historically authentic homes in 2000 – and CEI is looking to bring other responsible development to the pristine foothills of the Blue Ridge in the new millennium.

Yahn’s latest responsible development projects include a 856-acre development outside Middleburg, Virginia in Delaplane / a 200-acre development in Hume, Virginia / and a hamlet in Middleburg, Virginia. Yahn also continues to provide custom home design-build services for individual clients.

Yahn continues to carve her place in the Virginia residential and commercial building and renovation market. Yahn is in the midst of some of her most challenging projects yet and is expected to take Builder of the Year and Best Custom Home awards in 2010.

Trade Recognition

Winner	1st Place
SEBC AURORA AWARD	NVBIA CUSTOM HOME
BEST CUSTOM HOME	OVER $500,000 CATEGORY
Grand Prize	2nd Place
NVBIA CUSTOM HOME	NVBIA CUSTOM HOME
OVER $500,000 CATEGORY	OVER $500,000 CATEGORY