Affordable housing may soon get a little easier to access in Colorado. A trio of “first-generation immigrants” has purchased a former tire factory in Hudson, where they plan to build economy homes out of shipping containers.
Their company, EcoMod LLC, is fairly new but brings six years of residential development experience to the game in which they can cut the cost of homeownership by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“Our mission is to tackle the housing crisis,” Dmitry Yesilevsky, vice president, said in an email. “Using a patent-pending system, we build homes that are nine times stronger, more sustainable, and over 30% less expensive.”
The trio — Marko Mackovic, founder and president, originally from Serbia; Dmitry Yesilevsky, vice president, originally from Ukraine; and Adis Lutvic, director of supply chain operations, originally from Bosnia, started the company in late 2023, and formed a holding company last spring, EM Property LLC, through which they bought the former Tires Center West for $3.25 million. The property is in unincorporated Weld County, at 22703 Interchange 76 Frontage Road, and they are waiting for use permits to open the factory.
“We have essentially cleaned it out and renovated the entire building,” Yesilevsky said in an interview. “We already have all of our production-line equipment already picked out, so we’re just waiting for the permits to come through, so hopefully within the next couple months.”
The modular-home plant will be operational in January 2026. Yesilevsky reports that the company, beginning with 20 employees, will produce 400 homes in its first year, scaling to 750, “to meet a massive pipeline of over 11,000 pending orders.”
The company sells its units for $60,000 for a multifamily unit up to $190,000 for a 1,300-square-foot single-family home, Yesilevsky said.
They’ve billed it as more-sustainable affordable housing in the form of duplexes, single-family homes and multifamily pieces to deliver for residential developments or direct to the consumer.
Mackovic founded the company, after struggling to build affordable homes. “So he decided to come up with an idea to be able to build more affordably. And so what we came up with was basically our first kind of prototype, which was a two-unit multifamily housing,” Yesilevsky said. “We’re framing it out with steel and everything else, but that saves us a lot of time and labor. From there, we had a lot of people say, ‘hey, this would actually make a great idea for an ADU.’”
An EcoMod-built prototype. (Courtesy EcoMod LLC)The use of accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are gaining strength in Colorado, where the Legislature passed a bill requiring communities to allow them on residential properties and became effective this past summer. At the same time, new laws also are allowing churches to develop affordable housing on their properties, Yesilevsky said. In 2023, California passed such a law, New York passed a similar law in recent years.
EcoMod has already built some models and has placed them on property they own in Erie. They are working with church groups, such as Mile High Ministries, and the Innovative Housing Incentive Program through the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade to begin mass producing the homes.
The company leaders are working with a group in Arvada to begin an affordable-housing project, and they also are working on a project to build from 30 to 70 units for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, Yesilevsky said. Eventual plans are to produce units for shipment nationwide.
“I’d say Colorado and California so far is where we have the most interest right now,” he said.
The sustainability comes in the form of using used, single-use shipping containers, Yesilevsky said.
“There’s a huge market for them,” he said. “We did the math, and there’s about 17 million containers worldwide, and about 70% of those when they come into the U.S. either are either shipped back empty or stay here empty. It’s only 30% or actually reused when they come into the U.S.”
The factory, all 64,000 square feet of it, is where the magic happens.
“We take that steel container, and we cut out certain portions for windows and doors and things like that,” Yesilevsky said. “But we try to make minimal modifications because we are trying to use the shipping container for the actual strength of the container, which actually allows us to make the final product section to nine times stronger than a typical stick-built home.”
“We can handle snow loads that are like four times stronger than even required here in Denver. They’re mold resistant, you know their pest resistant things like that so you’re built to a higher standard.”
Given the changing nature of the business, the need for affordable housing, and the changing laws allowing different types of housing, the trio is not alone in trying to capture the market.
“There’s a lot of competition, but there’s also a lot of demand and there’s I think there’s more demand than actual product in production right now,” Yesilevsky said.
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