Custom Homes in
Pottsboro, Texas
Pottsboro is where the office is, where our mornings begin, and where the work has been for twenty-six years. We pass by homes we built here two decades ago on our drives to the job sites. The families who live in them still stop to talk at the post office. This is home — for the company, for the team, and for the community of clients whose homes define this town as much as anything else in it.
A Town That Knows
Its Builder
Tom Cece, the company’s co-founder, serves as the mayor of Pottsboro. It is not a symbolic role. It reflects the depth of investment he and the company have in this place — an investment that extends beyond building homes to shaping the community in which those homes exist. In a town where you run into your builder at the post office and the restaurant, where a single conversation at a festival can reach every potential client in the county, there is no room for careless work. The company’s reputation is not managed through marketing. It is lived, daily, in a place small enough that every home is visible and every relationship is personal.
Pottsboro sits just south of Lake Texoma with a quiet, walkable center and the kind of local rhythm that people who arrive from larger cities notice immediately. The Frontier Festival draws the whole town out. The restaurants know their regulars. There is always something happening, but never so much that you feel rushed getting to it. The lake is minutes away. Rock Creek and the Highport Marina are a short drive north. And the Denison-Sherman corridor provides the full range of infrastructure without Pottsboro losing its character.
Scott’s grandmother started an interior finish business in the area more than forty years ago — a business his cousins now own and that still performs all of the interior finish work on Ceci Bates homes. Other family members serve as subcontractors and vendors. The roots go deep — not because family gets preferential treatment, but because the same values that built the company were passed down through the same community.
The Work Endures
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People at the open house
At the grand opening of the company’s new office and design center, over two hundred and fifty people attended. The vast majority were past clients. Some had homes built twenty years ago and still came to celebrate. Some of their grown children have contacted Ceci Bates after inheriting homes their parents built with the company, asking if they could call with questions about the property.
That kind of return does not happen because of advertising. It happens because the work endures, and so does the relationship. In a region where most builders are measured by their newest project, Ceci Bates is measured by its oldest — and the oldest ones are still standing, still performing, and still lived in by the families who built them.
Spout Springs — A Community
We Are Building
Spout Springs is a development we are building from the ground up — eighty-two lots, each one designed for a custom home. It sits less than two miles from Rock Creek and within a short drive of the Highport Marina, the lake, and the Pottsboro town center. The proximity to everything the area offers is immediate, but the community itself is its own place — a neighborhood being created with intention.
The intent is a community where every structure meets the same standard of design and construction that defines our work across the region — and where the owners share a regard for what is built beside them. Spout Springs is not a subdivision where the homes are designed to a template. Every lot will accommodate a custom home. Every home will go through the same process: site analysis, architectural design, interior design, structural engineering, and pre-construction planning.
It is the kind of neighborhood we would want to live in. That is why we are the ones building it.
At the Center of the Region
Pottsboro sits at the center of the Ceci Bates service area — the office, the design center, and the daily starting point for every project in the region. Lake Texoma is minutes north. Rock Creek and the Highport Marina are a short drive. Lake Bois d’Arc is nearby and developing quickly. And the Denison-Sherman corridor provides the infrastructure and civic life that supports building in this part of North Texas. Every project we build, regardless of its location, begins from here.
Twenty-six years. Over a thousand homes.
The same town. The same post office.
The same commitment.
Building in Pottsboro
Begins
with a Conversation
Whether you are already part of the Pottsboro community, considering a lot at Spout Springs, or exploring this part of North Texas for the first time — the first step is a conversation about what you have in mind. Our office is here. Our team is here. We would welcome the chance to listen.
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