Todd Young runs Lannister Construction out of 491 N Bluff Street, Suite 305 — the office tower at the south end of Bluff Street, half a mile from where the road crosses the wash that takes most of St. George’s monsoon water in August. The phone is 801-879-0553, an area code that gives away the founder’s origin: Todd’s father Gary Young built construction work in Utah County, and Todd carried that workmanship south into Washington County. Lannister presents itself as second-generation, which is the right framing — the family knowledge is older than the LLC, but the LLC is where the work is happening now.
Remodels First, New Construction Second
The work mix is luxury residential remodeling: kitchens, primary bathrooms, living-room reworks, whole-home renovations. A secondary practice in age-in-place modifications — widened doorways, walk-in showers, accessibility upgrades for homeowners who want to stay in the house they bought twenty years ago — is uncommon among 435 remodelers and worth flagging. The firm also takes on multi-family new construction, but the public-facing positioning is unambiguous: remodel-first.
In-House Design
Lannister’s team page presents the company as a design-build operation in practice. An in-house designer, Marissa Thompson, handles the design phase; a superintendent runs the field. Design, permitting, scheduling, and execution stay under one roof. That structure is the operative difference between Lannister and the handyman-grade remodelers that proliferate in the 435 — the firms that take a kitchen down to studs, then disappear for three weeks waiting on a designer’s revisions before any tile gets laid.
Service Area and Standing
Lannister serves Greater St. George and the surrounding Washington County communities. Iron County and Kane County are not advertised. The firm holds itself out as licensed and insured but does not publish a Utah DOPL contractor license number on the public site, and the BBB profile page (file 1166-90026416) blocked automated fetch during research, so accreditation status is not confirmed.
Lannister in the 435
For the 435 register, Lannister fits as a mid-sized owner-operated remodel-first contractor with a design-build workflow and a Washington County center of gravity. It is distinct from the production builders categorized elsewhere in the directory and from the new-construction custom-home shops at the high end. A homeowner with a Sienna Hills primary suite they want gutted and rebuilt to a consistent finish standard is the right fit; a buyer building from scratch on a Snow Canyon lot is not.
Sources
- https://lannisterconstruction.com/
- https://lannisterconstruction.com/team/
- https://www.bbb.org/us/ut/st-george/profile/remodel-contractors/lannister-construction-1166-90026416
- https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/lannister-construction-pfvwus-pf~942409855
- https://www.facebook.com/lannisterconstruction/
- https://www.thehousedesigners.com/builders/featured/lannister-construction-16634/
- https://www.southernutahlocal.com/biz/381/lannister-construction-remodeling-contractors-st-george-utah