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Alumni

A company created by Kyle Bach, a 1998 graduate of

Washington High School, has been named by the Indianapolis

Business Journal as the fastest growing private company in
central Indiana.

Bach started Annex Student Living in 2009 in Indianapolis

to build student housing on campuses that usually have not

offered housing. The IBJ said Bach’s company grew 280

percent from 2014 to 2016.

Bach did not start out with a goal of becoming a developer.
In fact, his 2002 degree from IU Bloomington was in kinesiology,

the study of human movement. His goal was to be a physical

therapist.

But he got a job with a company that was developing affordable

housing, and his goals changed. In 2006, he branched out on
his own. He was working on a project in Galesburg, Ill., when

he was approached by a college of cial there who asked if he

had ever considered student housing. He ended up building 114 as preparation for life. At WHS, he participated in football,

units there.baseball and wrestling, which helped build a spirit of teamwork
in him.
Since then he has branched out around the Midwest. His

projects include The Annex apartments on Northside Boulevard His favorite coach was Rick Tomaszewski, who coached baseball.

next to the IU South Bend campus.“He was a man of honor,’’ Bach said.

What makes Annex Student Living different than other off- As for the future, Bach says he hopes to continue growing his

campus housing?company. He describes the apartments in terms of beds rather

that units. He now has 3,000 beds with 2,000 more in various
“It comes down to our culture,’’ Bach said. The company’s stages of development. His goal is to have 20,000 by 2025.
mission statement uses the acronym PAWS -- philanthropic,

academics, wellness and social. Something is done every

month at the apartments to ful ll the mission, he said.

Bach looks back on his experience at Washington High School

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