About Us
Providence Development has been building new home communities in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1984. We strive to create homes that the discerning homeowner would be proud to own and enjoy living in. Over the past 40 years, we have successfully completed many communities ranging from 4 to 35 homes, located mostly in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. We have also completed custom home communities and build-to-suit homes up to 6,500 square feet. We build to high standards and stand behind all of our homes to offer you peace of mind for your new home.
Our Values
Honesty, integrity and quality are the core values of our company. We want to give our homeowners more than they expect: a better structure unseen behind the walls and more reliable systems to stand the test of time. We deliver what we promise, and we make every effort to do our best. We build quality by bringing together a quality team. Our team members are all long-term associates, and our building partners share our values. Our relationships are based on honesty, and our mutual goal is to build the best homes possible.
Our Management Team
Corliss Lee
President & Co-Founder
Corliss started her career in the building industry in 1974, when she first acquired a wealth of knowledge about the industry by working with several major builders. Throughout her career, she has received many awards for her outstanding dedication and untiring efforts toward the improvement of the building industry.
Corliss has served on the Board of the East Bay Chapter of the Building Industry Association and became its first woman President in 1997. In addition, she has served as Vice-Chair and Commissioner of the California State Seismic Safety Commission. She was a member of the Board of Directors of The Battered Women’s Alternative Center and raised $600,000 in cash and in-kind donations for the construction of the center. She also raised funds for and managed the construction of Habitat for Humanity’s first project in Contra Costa County.
Kenneth Wu
Vice-President & Co-Founder
Ken manages the development and construction of Providence’s new home communities and is instrumental to bringing the communities the life. He oversees the entire development process from land acquisition and planning to subdivision entitlement to construction. A trained civil engineer, Ken works with local and state agencies to find solutions to complex development issues before construction even begins.
Prior to co-founding Providence, Ken served as a Forward Planner and Project Manager for The Meads Group, a developer/builder in San Jose, California, where he worked on single-family and multi-family developments. Prior to joining The Meads Group, Ken was an engineer with Montreal Engineering Pacific Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he worked on large-scale structural engineering projects.
Ken was raised and educated in Hong Kong and Vancouver and maintains strong ties to both areas. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with a degree in Civil Engineering, with an emphasis in structural and construction engineering.