Kinexx

In a factory near Midway Airport, houses are now being built the way cars, refrigerators and other products have long been made for a long time: on an assembly line. A box-shaped module starts as a steel cage at one end of the assembly line inside the Kinexx factory on South Kildare Avenue in Archer Heights. “We’re really a manufacturing operation,” says Josh Braun, CEO of Kinexx, which he founded in 2020 with Paul Tebben. So far this year, Kinexx has built or signed contracts for 30 houses and looks likely to meet its year-end goal of 60, says Elle Ramel, the firm’s director of business development. Kinexx now has 53 full-time employees, up from two — Braun and Tebben — in 2020.