What's happening at Mateo Meadows?
June 12, 2025 Construction Update: Garage Roofs Raised
Work on the second floor has officially begun, and we held a ceremony to celebrate the raising of two roof segments onto the garages at Mateo Meadows!
During the ceremony, we awarded our 2025 Housing Champions. Read all about it here!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Blitz Build. Our work would not be possible without the help of volunteers and sponsors.
April 23rd, 2025 Construction Update: Home Builders Blitz Begins
Our Home Builders Blitz event at Mateo Meadows is our biggest volunteer build event of the year!
The plan is to start with a blank slab on April 24th and finish with four fully-framed townhomes on June 12th – 10 total Blitz days.
The Home Builders Blitz brings community members, local organizations, and industry professionals together to make a positive, lasting impact in the lives of local families.
Visit our Blitz Build website to get involved!
December 23rd, 2024 Construction Update: Construction Begins
With permits in hand, construction officially began on the first four affordable townhomes in the Mateo Meadows community earlier this month. We now have our dedicated team of construction staff and volunteers working on the foundations. We will soon form and pour the stem walls, install the plumbing and groundwork, backfill, insulate, and pour the concrete floors.
Want to get involved? Click here to volunteer on our job site.
Click here to get involved in our upcoming Spring 2025 Blitz Build.
October 15th, 2024 Construction Update: Groundbreaking Ceremony
On Saturday, October 5th, we held our official Groundbreaking Ceremony for the first four units at Mateo Meadows. We had a fantastic group of community members joining us, including the Honcoop family, two of our Partner Homebuyer Families, representatives from local businesses, many of our longtime volunteers, and members of the Nooksack Tribe who blessed the land in a beautiful ceremony.
Currently, survey work is being completed so that construction can begin soon.
March 15th, 2024 Construction Update: Pre-Loading
We have begun the pre-loading process at Mateo Meadows! Pre-loading (also known as surcharging) is the process of stabilizing the subsurface soil beneath the future buildings by adding substantial amounts of structural fill on top of the building site. This will quickly compact the soil, preventing any significant post-construction settling that could otherwise occur. It will also protect against seismically induced, liquefaction-related settlement in the future.
Pre-loading is an important part of creating a resilient community. Because the Mateo Meadows Community is located within the Nooksack River Floodplain, there are stratified layers of alluvial soil deposits (mixtures of sand and silt from floods of years past) below the surface of a portion of the building site. Geotechnical engineers have recommended we pre-fill this site to compress these soil layers, causing them to settle now rather than after construction.
Substantial amounts of structural fill (gravel and dirt) will be brought in and distributed on top of the future building sites. Different amounts of structural fill are required in different areas on the site, so you will see piles of varying sizes throughout the property. Once the process is complete and deemed acceptable for construction, much of this material will be removed and used in other places where fill is needed on the site.
This process is anticipated to take up to three months. Surveyors will monitor the amount and rate of settlement at the site of each future building. Rapid settlement will likely occur within the first two weeks, followed by a gradual decline until the soil stabilizes to a degree acceptable for construction.