Family built. Community grown.
For over four decades, the Naparlo family has built restaurants, neighborhoods and businesses the same way we'd build anything for our own family — with care, grit and a handshake you can count on. Development, operations and management — one family behind all of it.
One family. Three disciplines.
We operate like a mom & pop — because we are one. But the reach of our work might surprise you.
Development
From raw land to thriving communities. We acquire, entitle and build — residential neighborhoods, retail centers and commercial sites across Virginia and Pennsylvania.
See our projectsOperations
Twenty-two Burger King restaurants, a convenience store and the Virginia Car Wash Co. — run hands-on, every day, by people who know your name.
How we operateManagement
Commercial and multi-family property management with an owner's eye — because we own what we manage. Our tenants are neighbors, not numbers.
What we manageOne family, two states.
From the Historic Triangle of Virginia to the Back Mountain of Pennsylvania — every pin is something the family built, runs or manages.
Every spot tells a story — tap a pin or let the tour run.
Explore the Full PortfolioIt started with one teenager flipping burgers.
In 1980, after working his way up from an hourly Burger King job he took at sixteen, Joseph "Just J." Naparlo became a Burger King franchisee. Forty-five years and thirty-plus restaurants later, MHF is still what it has always been: a family taking care of its people, its properties and its communities.
Read the Full Story"Many things are possible through hard work and determination — and a little help from the Man upstairs." — J. Naparlo, Founder
How we work
Three habits, two generations, one standard.
Show up
J. started behind a Burger King counter at sixteen. Fifty years on, the family still walks its own restaurants, sites and properties — nothing is run from a distance.
Build to keep
We develop what we intend to own and manage. When the builder, landlord and operator are the same family, quality isn't a promise — it's self-interest.
Know your name
Tenants, team members and guests deal with people, not departments. It's called My Happy Family because we mean it.
Come grow with a company that knows your name.
We're hiring across operations, construction and the home office.
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