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Covington Homes broke ground on the Third Annual St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway house on November 13 and, in just weeks, the house has gone from dream to reality as construction is well underway.

Covington Homes is coordinating construction on the brand-new house, along with support from local trade partners and sponsors. The home is located in Banning Lewis Ranch, which boasts a beautiful Ranch House, parks and trails throughout the community and a K-8 charter school.

This is the first year that Covington Homes will be the builder of the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway house. “We are truly humbled and honored to be the Southern Colorado St. Jude Dream Home Builder,” said Grace Covington with Covington Homes. “Our entire Covington Team is looking forward to helping in this very worthy cause and contributing whatever we can to help fight childhood cancer.”

Tickets for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway will be available starting March 23, at dreamhome.org or by calling 800-379-5217. Only 8,500 tickets for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway will be sold. For $100, reserve a ticket to win the home as well as other high-end prizes.

The giveaway benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which occasionally treats Colorado Springs children at its location in Memphis. Sponsors of the campaign include KKTV 11 News, Covington Homes, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Banning Lewis Ranch, Y96.9 FM, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, Furniture Row and Hanson HotSpring Spas.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago.

St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent, and won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping its child live.