• Smooth Finishers

    From striping, signage and stormwater protection to massive slab-on-grade pours, specialty contractor Hitt Concrete & Site Construction, Inc. (Hitt Concrete) seems to do it all. Founded in 2015, this Glendale, Arizona-based company has rapidly grown from two guys and a truck to a 50-person company with a comprehensive list of projects for large and high-profile clients.   read more...

  • One Long Magic Carpet Ride

    Tucson Commercial Carpet, Inc. will spend part of 2022 basking in a well-earned commemoration of the company’s golden anniversary, a magic carpet ride through 50 years of a labor of love. The rest of the year will be spent as all the others are, in service to its clients and positioning the firm for the next 50 years. They’re confident there will be a 100th birthday party. The formal anniversary in November 2022 marks the official date the company was established under Richard St. Aubin and George Moffat. The founders then incorporated in 1974. Sadly and unexpectedly, Moffat died in 1998.   read more...

  • Faith in Glass

    To its owner, Copperstate Glass and Mirror (Copperstate) is a clear representation of success accomplished when a team believes in its work. The Phoenix-based company is a commercial and residential glass repair and replacement firm. After working for Copperstate for eight years, Ron Simmons purchased it from the original owner in 2020. “It’s been a journey that’s required some faith,” he says.   read more...

  • From Pea Gravel Spreader to President and CEO

    Path Construction President and CEO Ric Krause immersed himself in the construction trades beginning in the summer when he was just 9 years old. He visited his father, a carpenter, on jobs in residential subdivisions. One day, the concrete company on-site put him to work shoveling pea gravel and stripping forms. He was a quick study, and by the next summer, he was bending conduit and pulling wire for an electrical contractor.   read more...

  • When Precision, Power 
and Speed Matter

    When you’re looking at running a blade into 24 inches of concrete, you need an operator that makes clean cuts, has the tools powerful enough for the job and works quickly. Blade Runners has all that and more. “We are one of the larger core drilling and concrete sawing contractors in the Phoenix metropolitan area,” says President David Weston. “We have the expertise and the equipment power to take on a multitude of different scopes of concrete work.”   read more...

  • Quality in Every Job

    Serving a diverse lineup of commercial clients in the greater Phoenix area has been the way Go Green Landscape & Tree Service (Go Green) has always done business. The company performs work such as landscape maintenance, irrigation management and tree trimming at all different types of client properties.   read more...

  • Supporting Contractors’ Businesses with the Business Part

    For many contractors, the challenge in running their own business is the actual business part, says Bobbie Romo, Founder and Partner at 
Pivot Solutions LLC, an Arizona-based company established in 2019 to provide financial and construction management support to contractors and subcontractors.   read more...

  • Twists & Turns

    In 1977, Darryl Wareing and his wife, Betsy, moved from Danville, California, to Scottsdale, Arizona, with their five children. With hindsight, it was this move that changed the trajectory of the Wareing family’s future and prompted the founding of a general contracting firm and family empire, Decca Builders, Inc. (Decca).   read more...

  • Improvise, Adapt and Overcome

    “Glass breaks, and that’s OK.” That may seem like an odd credo for a man whose professional life revolves around glass—but for Richard Main, who co-owns Vista Glass Inc. with his wife, Maria, it’s a way of saying the glass itself is less important and durable than the relationships forged with their customers.   read more...

  • Small But Mighty

    It isn’t surprising that Tim Crout would end up as the Owner and CEO of Crout & Heller Painting Services, Inc. (Crout & Heller). He’s been climbing the ladder since he was a teenager in Michigan, occasionally going to work with his father who was a building maintenance supervisor and also accompanying him on weekend jobs painting homes and hanging wallpaper. Tim’s dad taught him the tools of the trade. “He wouldn’t let me touch a paintbrush for the entire first year,” Tim says. “All I did was watch and learn and mask and cover.”   read more...

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