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Let’s forget about 2010.Executives in the Gulf Coast con-

struction industry, after three years of declines, are reporting signs of better days have started to appear. At least anecdotally, they say there are legitimate reasons for hope.

But for the record, we must still report the stats:

Total annual revenues for the top 50 Gulf Coast construction com-

panies from Tampa to Naples fell 11% last year, from $2.158 billion in 2009 to $1.919 billion in 2010. Revenues were down individually in 29 of those 50 firms, in a range of a 1.6% drop to a 46.2% drop. More-over, 15 of those 29 companies re-ported a loss of 20% or greater.

The list of firms that lost revenues is littered with well-respected, es-tablished names — Sarasota-based

W.G. Mills, which, despite a 41.4% drop in 2010, from $274.62 million to $161 million, remains the region’s largest construction company. Prov-idence, R.I.-based Gilbane Inc., a $4 billion firm, bought Mills last November.

Other stalwarts that reported 2010 revenue decreases: Tarpon Springs-based Hawkins Construc-tion, which fell from $142.5 mil-

lion to $107 million, a 24.9% drop; Lakewood Ranch-based Dooley-Mack Constructors, which dropped 22.4%, from $134 million to $104 million; and Naples-based Boran Craig Barber Engel Construction Co., which lost 27%, from $82.15 million to $60 million.

The revenue decreases, while contagious, didn’t reach epidemic status in 2010. Some companies ac-tually reported increases, including two that surpassed $100 million. Those companies, Tarpon Springs-based J. Kokolakis Contracting Inc. and Tampa-based Prince Contract-ing, were up 44.9% and 38.3%, re-spectively.

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Final leg oF The Fall?More than half of our top 50 reported lower revenues in 2010 than in 2009. But construction executives are reporting reasons for hope in 2011.

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The construction collapse on the Gulf Coast hasn’t spared anyone, but here’s the thing that separates David Diamond and John DeAngelis: They didn’t make the big mistakes that many competitors made.

Naples-based DeAngelis Diamond Construction has no debt, its found-

ers never s o u g h t o u t s i d e investors, they didn’t i n v e s t in costly equipment, they never focused ex-clusively on one kind of project and they sought

out clients who shrewdly managed their businesses through the down-turn.

The partners laid off employees when they had to while carefully building the firm’s bond-insurance ca-pacity so they could handle ever-larg-er projects. DeAngelis and Diamond expanded their construction-manage-ment company statewide when they realized there wasn’t enough business to sustain them in Southwest Flori-da, and they focused on renovations, health care and government work at the right time.

The payoff: Revenues rose nearly 28% to $60 million last year. DeAn-gelis forecasts the firm will grow rev-enues another 50% this year because it currently has a backlog of projects worth almost $100 million.

“2012 is what we’re really excited about,” DeAngelis says.

DeAngelis says he’s spoken recently with bankers who tell him they’re ea-ger to finance new projects and with executive recruiters who are busy again helping companies grow. “I talked to a lot of civil engineers and architects and they’re getting really busy,” he says. “Those are all really good signs.”

Radio RoadDeAngelis and Diamond gained

their experience by managing com-plex commercial and condo projects for another large builder in Naples, Boran Craig Barber Engel.

But the entrepreneurial duo wanted to run their own company and gradu-ally saved enough money to cover the costs their first year in business. “We needed at least one year’s worth of sal-ary,” Diamond says. “We saved every dime we could.”

From the start, neither Diamond nor DeAngelis wanted to owe anyone. “We made a conscious decision to not have backing,” Diamond says.

When they started DeAngelis Dia-mond in June 1996 in a small office off Radio Road, they had no work lined up. “We didn’t have a single job or a single lead,” Diamond says. “We didn’t take any clients from BCBE.”

Taking clients from their previous employer would have run against their Christian philosophy, upon which they say they’ve based their business. “When we left BCBE, we wanted to be men of integrity,” Diamond says.

To land new customers, they pledged to do business more openly by sharing the financial details of a project with customers, showing them exactly how much labor and materials would cost and the size of their management fee.

DeAngelis Diamond didn’t try to lowball by underbidding the competi-tion to win new clients. “In the early days it was relationships,” Diamond says. “It wasn’t price.”

Devout men, DeAngelis and Dia-mond don’t allow swearing on the job sites and insist on clean work ar-eas. They pledge to customers to fin-ish on time, not to surprise them with change orders and to communicate well. “We wouldn’t let our problems be their problems,” Diamond says.

Those courtesies extend to employ-ees and vendors. “I like to be paid on

time and not screamed at,” Diamond says.

Understanding that construction runs in deep cycles, DeAngelis and Diamond also made an effort to diver-sify early on, building offices, schools, churches and health-care facilities. “We said we’d never be a niche build-er,” Diamond says.

The pair’s first job was building a $3.5 million Naples Dodge dealer-ship, owned by a pair of young entre-preneurs. “They were young guys like us; we had a connection,” Diamond says.

Jon Myers, president of what is now the Naples Dodge Chrysler Jeep dealership, says he was aware of the builders’ reputation when they worked for BCBE and believed that they would work extra hard on that first job. “We liked that we were their first customer,” Myers says. “If they did it right, it would be a landmark for them.”

From their first project, DeAnge-lis and Diamond carefully built their business and grew their bonding ca-pacity to $100 million today. To please the bond insurers and strengthen the

The right movesDeAngelis Diamond Construction is one of the few commercial builders that managed to grow revenues last year.

REVIEW SUMMARY

Company. DeAngelis Diamond ConstructionIndustry. Commercial constructionKey. Diversification, expense controls and no debt were the keys to managing through the downturn.

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David Diamond, left, and business partner John DeAngelis, say revenues at their Naples-based commercial construction firm could rise 50% this year.

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firm’s balance sheet, DeAngelis Dia-mond has an untapped $2 million line of credit. “We’ve never touched it,” Di-amond says.

Managing the boom and bustStarting a construction business in

Naples during the mid-1990s was for-tuitous because of what lay ahead: a construction boom of epic proportions on the Gulf Coast.

But the growth of the mid-2000s

proved to be tough to man-age. “The tough thing was that you just didn’t have enough people on a proj-ect,” Diamond says.

By the peak in 2005, DeAngelis Diamond had 100 employees. Fortu-nately, the two partners had built their company to be a construction man-agement firm and the staff consisted of project man-agers and administrators. Because they outsourced the construction work to subcontractors, they didn’t have the labor, trucks and equipment overhead that many of their competitors had.

Still, DeAngelis and Dia-mond had to pare down staff and cut salaries when the downturn began. At first it wasn’t too painful because they cut people who weren’t top performers. “The second year we had to cut people we liked,” Diamond says. They have 60 employees today.

Both DeAngelis and Diamond are modest about their accomplishments. “We did a lot of things wrong,” DeAn-gelis says. “I would say that we fared better than most. Through the good years we socked away reserves and were careful fiscally. We were frugal.”

On the revenue side, DeAngelis Dia-mond created a health-care division and pursued more government work. During the bust, those were the two areas that still provided opportunities.

“The pros about government work is you’re going to get paid,” Diamond says. “It’s slow, but you’ll get your check.” But because of the competitive bidding in the public sector, the chal-lenge is that “margins are thin, thin, thin,” he says.

In health care, the challenge is that customers demand builders’ focus ex-clusively on their industry and gener-alists are viewed with suspicion. “It’s very important to separate yourself from other contractors,” says Reggie Morgan, president of DeAngelis Dia-mond Healthcare Group.

Because hospitals demand such specialized work under difficult con-ditions, Morgan says he and DeAn-gelis and Diamond decided to spin off health care as its own company in January. “It’s a huge selling point to clients,” says Morgan, who has an own-ership stake in the venture.

Now, DeAngelis Diamond has joined a half dozen contractors around the state who do most of the hospital work. “The competition is very small,” Diamond says. Health care clients include medical-device manufacturer Arthrex and hospital giant Health Management Associ-ates. DeAngelis Diamond recently

was awarded the job to build the new Park Royal psychiatric hospital in Lee County.

future growthDeAngelis and Dia-

mond are both increas-ingly optimistic about this year and next. With a backlog of work ap-proaching $100 million, they say revenues will rise 50% this year.

“I don’t see it going cra-zy, but it’s slowly recover-ing,” Diamond says.

The health care busi-ness is especially strong, and Morgan says he hopes that company will expand nationally. For now, the company is targeting the Southeast U.S. “We have

plans to open an office in Birmingham and Orlando,” he says.

Besides health care and govern-ment work, Diamond says he’s hearing about more commercial projects on the drawing boards, ranging from auto dealerships to condominiums. Even DeAngelis Diamond’s small custom-home division is seeing some growth.

Credit is starting to become available again. “Banks are chasing us to lend,” says DeAngelis. “I’ve talked to four dif-ferent banks in the last few weeks.”

Diamond says he’s also encouraged by the improved political climate in Tallahassee. “We’ve very happy with Rick Scott,” he says. Even in Collier County, one of the most difficult places to do business in the state, there’s a more pro-business attitude, he notes.

From his perspective, DeAngelis suspects the economy will recover fast-er than many suspect, and companies such as his must be prepared. “It’s go-ing to turn very quickly,” he says.

anGel investoRsDavid Diamond and John DeAngelis

are angel investors — in business and philanthropy.

Both men regularly travel to remote places in Cambodia, Darfur and Brazil on behalf of Christian-based organiza-tions to help start and operate orphan-ages.

They also visit tech hot spots such as Palo Alto, Calif., in search of startups in which to invest. Through their ven-ture, called StartupAngel.net, they’ve funded more than a dozen small start-up companies in the mobile applications and consumer Internet technologies.

“I love starting companies,” Diamond says. “It’s my hobby. I don’t play golf, I don’t fish.”

Diamond and DeAngelis invest $50,000 to $500,000 in tech startups, which provides seed money before com-panies get big enough to attract venture funding. “There are so many bright peo-ple in that area,” Diamond says. They expect to make 10 times their money over three- to five-year periods because of the risky nature of their bets. “Angel investing is the riskiest thing out there,” Diamond says.

Both men are quick to say that their tech investing is a sideline to their commercial-building company. As for their philanthropic efforts overseas, Diamond sees it as his obligation for his good fortune. “You have to give back,” he says.

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DeAngelis Diamond Construction benefited from a focus on health-care projects in recent years, such as this one for Arthrex, a surgical-equipment manufacturer in Naples.



The timing couldn’t have been worse for Craig Lamberson to take the helm of J.O. DeLotto and Sons Inc. The transition toward outgoing Chairman Lyle Blanden’s retirement in December 2008 was planned years earlier, but nobody could have foreseen the worst re-cession in the 65-year history of the Tampa-based contractor.

Now representing the fourth gen-eration of leadership, Lamberson continues the same business plan DeLotto’s founders built over the last half-century: taking on diverse build-ing projects of all sizes. The contractor is on its way to rebuilding the falloff in revenue over the last two years and, for the most part, has been successful in keeping personnel on its payroll at a time when layoffs among contractors are more common.

“We’re in the same place as every-one else, trying to hold onto our qual-ity people,” says Lamberson, a 20-year DeLotto veteran. “We’re still here, and the doors still swing both ways.”

Far from being the Gulf Coast’s largest construction firm, DeLotto

nevertheless doesn’t flinch from bidding on high-profile projects and getting those con-tracts. It completed the Glazer Children’s Museum in downtown Tampa last year and is well on the way to fin-ishing a Davis Islands mansion, belonging to New York Yankees

shortstop Derek Jeter, that will be the single-largest residence in Tampa.

Four-figure projectsBut those multimillion-dollar proj-

ects aren’t the sole focus of DeLotto, which has diverse experience with master-crafted residences, office and medical buildings, credit union and bank branches, auto dealerships, schools and churches.

It has also taken on interior build-outs in small commercial spaces for as little as $1,000 during the downturn, Lamberson says. The important aspect is keeping its people busy, he says, not-ing “the paperwork is still the same.”

DeLotto has performed public hous-ing work in Tampa and Pinellas Coun-ty that was covered by federal stimulus funds, though Lamberson says that

type of work makes up less than 10% of its $37.9 million revenue last year.

As much as he tried to prevent lay-offs in recent years, Lamberson says he had to let go three employees in late February. The company now has 41 employees.

During the boom years, DeLotto had nearly 60 employees and annual rev-enue exceeding $50 million, making it one of the Tampa Bay area’s largest contractors. The firm is still head-quartered at its original location near Busch Boulevard and Nebraska Av-enue, where Julius O. “Pop” DeLotto founded it in 1946.

His son, Julius C. “Jay” DeLotto, led the company from the 1950s until 1994, when he sold his stake to other unrelated executives. Blanden spent 36 years with the company and was chairman and CEO since 1985.

One job leads to anotherAlthough the DeLotto family is no

longer directly involved in the com-pany’s operations, Lamberson says it continues to honor the founder’s commitment to building and main-taining strong relationships with de-sign and engineering professionals, as well as subcontractors and build-ing material suppliers. Some of its

client relationships have carried over from one generation to the next.

In some instances, those relation-ships have resulted additional busi-ness. For example, Jeff Wooley, presi-dent and CEO of Courtesy Automotive Group, has hired DeLotto to build and renovate its showrooms over the last decade after the company completed his home in Tampa.

“I respect their professional abilities, business acumen, budget controls and timeliness in completing the tasks at hand,” Wooley stated in a recommen-dation letter. He noted that DeLotto recently built a local Nissan dealership for Courtesy that was completed not only under budget, but two months ahead of schedule.

“Those kinds of projects are anoth-er opportunity for clients to touch on other aspects of what we do,” Lamber-son says. “We make sure we take care of them no matter what the project is.”

Building high-end homes some-times means respecting clients’ pri-vacy, as has been the case with Jeter’s

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Craig Lamberson, right, president of J.O. DeLotto and Sons, says the firm is especially proud to have built the Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa. Also pictured is Doug Littrell, executive vice president of DeLotto and the museum’s project manager.

Building TraditionTampa-based contractor J.O. DeLotto and Sons tries to maintain

old-fashioned values along with a strong book of business. It isn’t the biggest, yet that hasn’t stopped it from going after big-time projects.

REVIEW SUMMARY

Company. J.O. DeLotto and Sons Inc., Tampa Industry. Commercial and residential con-tractingKey. Maintaining rela-tionships over genera-tions

CONSTRUCTION by Carl Cronan | Editor/Tampa Bay

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J.O. DELOTTO AND SONS INC.Year Revenue Change2008 $54 million2009 $34 million -37%2010 $37.9 million +11.5%

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new house. DeLotto is not allowed to say it works for Jeter, but rather a re-lated company.

Lamberson says some residential customers are less forthcoming about their projects while others may want to attract as much publicity as they feel their expensive domiciles will allow. “We honor that both ways,” he says.

intangible rewardsInvolvement in the community has

also been another hallmark for DeLot-to. This has led to highly visible projects such as the Glazer Children’s Museum, which was launched with a sizeable do-nation by the ownership family of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In turn, the $10.4-million, 53,000-square-foot museum project offered other intangible rewards to the longtime contractor, such as making a favorable impression on fun-seeking

youngsters instead of stodgy adults and demanding clients.

“We’re in the business of building things that will hopefully outlast our-selves,” Lamberson says. “It was a privi-lege for us to be involved in that project.”

As one of the oldest remaining gen-eral contractors and construction man-agement companies in Florida, DeLotto intends to maintain its old-school ap-proach to future projects.

The firm is now able to add “green” building to its long list of completions: The 11,000-square-foot Tampa office of luxury travel agency Exeter Inter-national, built two years ago, recently received gold certification through the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leader-ship in Energy and Environmental De-sign (LEED) program.

Key challenges for DeLotto going forward include being able to forecast future growth, since construction nor-

mally tracks six months behind busi-ness secured by architecture firms and civil engineers, and being able to turn profits from tighter margins.

Lamberson notes that the company has been through tough times before, and that his firm isn’t any different from other local contractors in that regard.

“That’s the battle we’re all fighting,” he says. “We’re looking for those posi-tive lights.”

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Confidentiality agree-ments keep the company’s president, Craig Lamber-son, and others from being able to say they’re building baseball star Derek Jeter’s new 30,000-square-foot home on Bahama Circle in Tampa. They can only confirm having a contract with a client named Kered Connors LLC, whose sole proprietor wears No. 3 for the New York Yankees. (Kered is Jeter’s first name spelled backwards. His father, Charles Jeter, is the only officer listed in state corporate records.)

Jeter’s mansion, which will be the city’s single-largest residence once he moves from his current home at Avila Golf & Coun-try Club, is getting plenty of attention from sports fans in town for Yankees spring training, and by celebrity-gawker websites and TV programs.

Even his boss, Hal Steinbrenner, inadvertently spotlighted it a few weeks back when he remarked to sports writers that Yankees players were too focused on “building their mansions” rather than winning the American League pen-nant last season (which the less-lucrative Tampa Bay Rays took), though he later qualified the gripe by saying he wasn’t singling out Jeter.

There are conflicting reports as to how much Jeter’s new waterfront home is worth, along with speculation as to how well its value will hold given Tampa’s current depressed housing market. That may not be an issue to the vet-eran shortstop, who began his professional baseball career with the minor-league Tampa Yankees and signed a new three-year, $51-million contract late last year to stay with the Bronx franchise.

It is also uncertain at this point whether the giant house will ever be open to the public, such as during charitable events, the way former basketball star Matt Geiger welcomed guests to his 28,000-square-foot Tarpon Springs mansion. Geiger sold the largest home in Pinellas County in January to an unidentified buyer for $8 million, hav-ing spent far more when it was built in 2003.

Despite all the loath-ing of highly paid athletes and their opulent ways, Lamberson will say on the record that DeLotto’s Davis Islands client should be given credit for creating hundreds of jobs over the last couple years during a tough time in the construc-tion trade.

Carl Cronan covers the Tampa Bay region. He can be reached at [email protected], or (813) 221-9505.



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• Hillsborough County Court Facilities Renovations, improvements to the 192,000-square-foot court complex, Tampa, $20.7 million

• Armed Forces Reserve Center, 199,000-square-foot reserve center and vehicle maintenance facility, Farmingdale, N.Y., $84.5 million

• U.S. Military Academy Thomas Jefferson Library, 140,000-square-fooot library and learning center, West Point, N.Y., $62 million

• Southwest County Transfer Station, 58,000-square-foot transfer station and recycling collection center on a 41-acre site, West Palm Beach, $25 million

2 J. Kokolakis Contracting Inc.202 E. Center St., Tarpon Springs 34689PHONE: (727) 942-2211 • FAX: (727) 937-5708WEB: jkokolakis.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $98 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $142 million% CHANGE: 44.9FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 133YEAR FOUNDED: 1972PRINCIPALS: Joseph J. Kokolakis, president; Nick Leo, executive vice president; Roderick C. Voigt, vice president; and Arthur W. Gureck Jr., vice president of operationsSPECIALTY: design-build, construction management and general contractingLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: U.S. Military Acad-emy Preparatory School, demolishing existing buildings and constructing 257,000 square feet of replacement facilities, West Point, N.Y., $103.7 million

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1 W.G. Mills Inc.3301 Whitfield Ave., Sarasota 34243PHONE: (941) 758-6441 • FAX: (941) 907-3076WEB: wgmills.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $274.62 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $161 million% CHANGE: -41.4FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 165YEAR FOUNDED: 1972PRINCIPALS: Walter G. Mills, CEO; Lemuel Sharp III, presi-dent; and Timothy D. Hensey, executive vice president.SPECIALTY: construction management, general contracting and design/buildLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Venice High School, 407,236-square-foot school campus, Venice, $81.2 million

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NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Lakeland Regional Medical Center B Wing, 286-bed patient

tower, Lakeland, $57 million• Ruth Eckerd Hall, expansion and renovation of a performing

arts hall and construction of an educational facility, Clearwater, $21 million

• Lakeland Regional Medical Center M Wing, patient tower, Lakeland, $33.8 million

• Tarpon Springs Elementary School, 110,000-square-foot school, Tarpon Springs, $24.6 million

• Clearwater Municipal Complex, 83,000-square-foot police headquarters with a 70,000-square-foot city office building and a 500-car parking structure, Clearwater, $16.6 million

7Creative Contractors Inc.620 Drew St., Clearwater 33755PHONE: (727) 461-5522 • FAX: (727) 447-4808WEB: creativecontractors.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $86 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $78.3 million% CHANGE: -9FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 52YEAR FOUNDED: 1974PRINCIPALS: Alan Bomstein, president; Tom Fronce, senior vice president; and H. Alan Holderith Sr., vice presidentSPECIALTY: construction management for public/institutional, health care and educational buildingsLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Axelrod Pavilion, four-story, 103,500-square-foot building for Susan Cheek Needler Breast Cancer on Morton Plant Hospital’s campus, Clearwa-ter $14 million

Bomstein

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Child Development Center, a design-built project housing up to 225 children,

Fort Knox, Ky., $6.72 million• Child Development Center, a design-built project housing up to 185 children, Fort

Sam Houston, Texas, $6.66 million• Interim Polytrauma building for the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, two-story,

32,815-square-foot interim modular building, Tampa, $7.78 million• Buildings 162, 163 and 164, Naval Air Station, replacing roofs and windows, Jack-

sonville, $5.62 million• Marine Corps Logistics Base blast booths for buildings 2200 and 2236, design

and construction of six replacement blast booths, Albany, Ga., $5.24 million

8 J2 Engineering Inc.6921 Pistol Range Road, Suite 101, Tampa 33635PHONE: (813) 888-8861 • FAX: (813) 888-8849WEB: j2-eng.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $75 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $71 million% CHANGE: -5.3FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 120YEAR FOUNDED: 2001PRINCIPALS: Jose Morales, president CEO; Donald Muel-ler, president; Donald Forino, vice president of construc-tion; Fred Portofe, vice president of environmental; Lori Johnson, vice president of financeSPECIALTY: environmental remediation and construction servicesLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Child Development Center, a design-built housing project, Fort Polk, Ky., $6.86 million

Morales

Fronce

Holderith

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Tavira, luxury high-rise condominium, Naples $97.6 million• Hamilton Harbour, yacht club, Naples, $5 million• One Bal Harbour, waterfront hotel and spa, Miami Beach, $190

million• Bayfront, luxury condominium and retail center, Naples, $36

million• Hyatt Regency Coconut Point, resort hotel, Bonita Springs, $58

million

9Boran Craig Barber Engel Construction Co. Inc.3606 Enterprise Ave., Naples 34104PHONE: (239) 643-3343 • FAX: (239) 643-4548WEB: bcbe.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $82.15 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $60 million% CHANGE: -27FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 55YEAR FOUNDED: 1972PRINCIPALS: Melvin L. Engel Jr., president and CEO; Barry Connor, executive vice president; and Craig Gaskins, vice presi-dentSPECIALTY: condominium and commercial contractor and custom homebuilderLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Cape Canaveral Cruise Terminal, a 25,000-square-foot terminal and pedestrian bridge for the cruise ship Disney Dream, Cape Canaveral, $9.6 million

Engel

Connor

GaskinsNOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• The Residences at Coconut Point, nine buildings and one club-

house, Estero, $72 million• Arthrex Inc., corporate headquarters, warehouse and manufac-

turing facility, Naples, $16 million• Naples Community Hospital Renovations, demolition of struc-

tures, emergency entrance expansion, adding generators, reno-vation of suites and entire patient floors, Naples, $12 million

• Lexington Middle School, 1,200-student middle school, Lehigh Acres, $19 million

• Rapallo at Coconut Point, 65 residential buildings with 450 units, Estero $61 million

9DeAngelis Diamond Construction Inc.6635 Willow Park Drive, Naples 34109 PHONE: (239) 594-1994 • FAX: (239) 594-1995WEB: deangelisdiamond.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $47 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $60 million% CHANGE: 27.7FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 55YEAR FOUNDED: 1996PRINCIPALS: David B. Diamond, principal; John M. DeAngelis, principal; Norman Gentry, vice president; Jay Waltbillig, vice president; and Steve Soud, CFO SPECIALTY: commercial, health care and publicLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Hendry Regional Medical Center Expansion, 36,500-square-foot expansion to a hospital, including facilities for the emergency department, radiology, surgery, outpatient surgery and laboratories, Clewiston, $8.6 million

DeAngelis

Diamond

Waltbillig

Gentry

Soud


notewoRtHY PRoJects• Bruce B. Downs expansion and widening the road from State Road 54 to County

Line Road, Wesley Chapel, $13 million• Pasco County High School EEE, site construction for a school, Hudson, $5.5

million• West Pasco County Land Fill Ash Cell, site construction, Spring Hill, $5 million• Wesley Chapel Hospital, site construction for a hospital, Wesley Chapel, $4 mil-

lion• The Groves at Wesley Chapel, site work and utilities for a retail power center,

Wesley Chapel, $22 million

9Ripa & associates llc1409 Tech Blvd., Suite 1, Tampa 33619PHone: (813) 623-6777 • faX: (813) 663-6724weB: ripatampa.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $50 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $60 million% cHanGe: 20full-tiMe eMPloYees: 220YeaR founDeD: 1998PRinciPals: Frank P. Ripa, president; and Chris LaFace, vice presidentsPecialtY: site, utilities and roadway constructionlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Starling at Fishhawk Ranch, site, utilities and paving construction, Lithia, $8 million

notewoRtHY PRoJects• Sarasota Opera House, renovation of a 47,500-square-foot 1920s opera

venue, $12.2 million• Suncoast Polytechnical High School, 65,000-square-foot, two-story high

school, Sarasota, $15 million• Ringling College of Art & Design Academic Center, 82,000-square-foot,

five-story building with studios, gallery spaces and auditorium space, Sarasota, $20 million

• Matzke Transportation facility, redevelopment of an 11,000-square-foot, 4.8-acre fleet maintenance facility for the School Board of Manatee County, Bradenton, $17.9 million

• Cancer Support Community/ Wellness Community of Southwest Florida, 22,000-square-foot, two-building complex, Sarasota, $4 million

12willis a. smith construction inc.5001 Lakewood Ranch Blvd. N., Sarasota 34240PHone: (941) 366-3116 • faX: (941) 954-5509weB: willissmith.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $50.9 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $51.5 million% cHanGe: 1.2full-tiMe eMPloYees: 52YeaR founDeD: 1972PRinciPals: David E. Sessions, president; and F. John LaCivita, vice presidentsPecialtY: green sustainable, education and commerciallaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Booker High School, renovation of 10 buildings and construction of nine new buildings with classrooms, administration and cafeteria space, Sarasota, $50 million.

sessions

lacivita



NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• St. Joseph North Hospital, HVAC and plumbing for a 350,000-square-foot hospital, Tampa,

$31 million• Tampa General Hospital Expansion, HVAC, plumbing and sheet metal on a hospital wing,

Tampa, $26 million• Aqualea Hotel and Resort, HVAC and plumbing work for a new hotel and resort, Clearwater,

$12.8 million• Burnham Institute for Medical Research, HVAC, plumbing and medical gas work for a medical

facility, Orlando, $15 million• Nielson Media Research Center, HVAC, plumbing, and a full automation system for a

616,000-square-foot corporate campus, Oldsmar, $15 million

13BCH Mechanical Inc.6354 118th Ave. N., Largo 33773PHONE: (727) 546-3561 • FAX: (727) 545-1801WEB: bchmechanical.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $64.5 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $49.8 million% CHANGE: -22.8FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 425YEAR FOUNDED: 1976PRINCIPALS: Daryl W. Blume, president; Daniel J. Allen, vice president; and John Fields, chief financial officerSPECIALTY: mechanical, plumbing, piping and sheet metalLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Sarasota Memorial Tower, mechanical work for a nine-story, 220-room patient bed tower, Sarasota, $9 million

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Seaworld Marriott Hotels, 234,000-square-foot, seven-story hotel, Orlando, $29.5 million• Hilton Garden Inn, six-story, 122-key hotel, Palm Coast, $12 million• Beach Club at Ritz-Carlton, new club with restaurant, swimming pools, spa and underground parking,

Sarasota, $18 million• Aloft Hotel, 83,962-square-foot, 162-unit hotel, Tallahassee, $16.5 million• Residence Inn, 84,800-square-foot, five-story hotel, Gainesville, $12.3 million

14Kellogg & Kimsey Inc.6077 Clark Center Ave., Sarasota 34238PHONE: (941) 927-7700 • FAX: (941) 927-7705WEB: kelloggkimsey.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $70 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $49 million% CHANGE: -30FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 43YEAR FOUNDED: 1986PRINCIPALS: Philip A. Kellogg, president; Charles B. Kimsey, executive vice presi-dent; and David Pfeil, vice president of operationsSPECIALTY: retail, hospitality and general commercialLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Element Hotel, 209-key, five-story hotel, Miami, $16.5 million

Blume Allen Fields

Kellogg Kimsey Pfeil

Educational • Healthcare • Museum

Construction ManagementGeneral Contracting

Design Build

5001 Lakewood Ranch Boulevard N.Sarasota, Florida • 34240

PH 941-366-3116www.WillisSmith.com

SINCE

1972

Sarasota County Technical Institute


notewoRtHY PRoJects• Shops at Coconut Point, steel trusses, insulating concrete and tile for shopping

center, $6.5 million• Ave Maria University, steel trusses, insulating concrete and tile for a university

building, Ave Maria, $6 million• Lowell Reception Center, trusses and roofing for a reception center, Ocala, $4.78

million• Memphis Depot, roofing for a 1.39-million-square-foot facility, Memphis, Tenn.,

$4.97 million• Punta Gorda Middle School, roofing for a school, Punta Gorda, $2.7 million

16crowther Roofing & sheet Metal of florida inc.2543 Rockfill Road, Fort Myers 33916PHone: (800) 741-3114 • faX: (239) 332-0939weB: crowther.net2009 GRoss Revenue: $40.1 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $40.9 million% cHanGe: 2full-tiMe eMPloYees: 428YeaR founDeD: 1974PRinciPals: Lee Scott Crowther, president and Thomas S. Callans, secretary/treasurersPecialtY: roofing, HVAC and light-gauge metal trusseslaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Cleveland Clinic, roofing over insulation, Weston, $1.01 million

notewoRtHY PRoJects• East, Neil Armstrong and Peace River Replacement Schools,

new schools to replace several hurricane-damaged elementary schools, Charlotte County, $65 million

• South Fort Myers High School, new school, Fort Myers, $37 million

• Southwest Florida International Airport Runway 6/24 and Taxiway A Rehabilitation, runway and taxiway replacement, Fort Myers, $26.4 million

• Florida Gulf Coast University Lutgert School of Business, edu-cation building, Fort Myers, $17 million

• Marco Marriott Resort and Spa Renovations, extensive renova-tion of a hotel and amenities, Marco Island, $80 million

14owen-ames-Kimball co.11941 Fairway Lakes Drive, Fort Myers 33913PHone: (239) 561-4141 • faX: (239) 561-1996weB: owen-ames-kimball.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $45 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $49 million% cHanGe: 8.9full-tiMe eMPloYees: 45YeaR founDeD: 1982PRinciPals: David Dale, president; Patrick Conran, vice president; Steve Richards, vice president; Derald Pacetti, vice president; and Sherry Schreier, vice presidentsPecialtY: general contractor, construction manage-ment and design/buildlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Meadow Park Elementary Replacement School, replacement of an existing school, Port Charlotte, $17.8 million

conran

Pacetti

Dale

Richards

schreier

notewoRtHY PRoJects• New York Yankees Spring Training Facility, sports stadium,

Tampa, $18 million• The Slade at Channelside, downtown condominium, Tampa,

$55 million• Wal-Mart Supercenter, retail store, Coconut Creek, $20 mil-

lion • Cardinals / Expos Spring Training Facility, athletic facil-

ity with 7,500 seats and two 40,000-square-foot clubhouse buildings, Jupiter, $35 million

• Marriott World Center, hotel tower, Orlando, $13.5 million

18case contracting co.2311 Turkey Creek Road, Plant City, 33567PHone: (813) 754-3477 • faX: (813) 752-6732weB: casecontracting.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $47 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $39 million% cHanGe: -17full-tiMe eMPloYees: 17YeaR founDeD: 1983PRinciPals: Charles L. Christensen, chairman and Timo-thy M. Walker, presidentsPecialtY: general contractor particularly retail and laRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Walmart Supercenter, store expansion, Miami, $10 million

notewoRtHY PRoJects• Naples Daily News, mechanical and plumbing work for a news-

paper headquarters, Naples, $6 million• Lemon Bay High School, HVAC for a school, Englewood, $4.3

million• Boca Ciega High School, mechanical work for a school, St.

Petersburg, $6.7 million• Waterleaf K-5, HVAC for a school, Jacksonville, $1.3 million• Venice High School, HVAC for a school, Sarasota, $6 million

17B&i contractors inc.2701 Prince St., Fort Myers 33916PHone: (239) 332-4646 • faX: (239) 332-5928weB: bandicontractors.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $50.37 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $39.64 million% cHanGe: -21.3full-tiMe eMPloYees: 320YeaR founDeD: 1960PRinciPals: Gary H. Griffin, president; Jason N. Grabowski, vice president; and Brian Kelly, secretarysPecialtY: mechanical, electrical and plumbinglaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, HVAC and plumbing for a medical clinic, Cape Coral, $13 millionGriffin

Grabowski

christensen

walker



NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Riverview Corporate Center, nine-building office park, Bonita

Springs, $69 million• Renaissance Charter School, 110,000-square-foot school cam-

pus, Port St. Lucie, $12.01 million• Oasis Charter High School, 50,000-square-foot education build-

ing, Cape Coral, $7.8 million• Porter Wright Attorneys office, 14,000-square-foot law office,

Naples, $1.2 million• Henderson Franklin Attorneys office, 53,500-square-foot law

office, Fort Myers, $2.6 million

19J. McGarvey Construction/McGarvey Custom Homes9530 Marketplace Road, Suite 301, Fort Myers 33912PHONE: (239) 738-7800 • FAX: (239) 738-7995WEB: mcgarveydevelopment.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $41.94 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $38 million% CHANGE: -9.4FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 40YEAR FOUNDED: 1996PRINCIPALS: John S. McGarvey, presidentSPECIALTY: commercial construction and development, design/build and custom homebuilderLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: LaCaille at Quail West, designed, developed and built five villas, $8 mil-lion

McGarvey

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Tampa Preparatory School, new campus including 125,000

square feet of classroom space, a 15,000-square-foot athletic facility and 10,000-square-foot black box theater, Tampa, $17.8 million

• Pallavi Patel Performing Arts Conservatory at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 45,000-square-foot, four-story build-ing, Tampa, $6.1 million

• Sam Rampello Downtown Partnership School, 109,000-square-foot school campus, Tampa, $11.3 million

• Glazer Children’s Museum, 50,000-square-foot, three-story museum, Tampa, $10.7 million

• Ferman at Cypress Creek, 55,000-square-foot auto dealership

20J.O. DeLotto and Sons Inc.924 E. Busch Blvd., Tampa, 33612PHONE: (813) 935-2191 • FAX: (813) 935-2456WEB: delotto.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $34 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $37.9 million% CHANGE: 11.5FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 44YEAR FOUNDED: 1946PRINCIPALS: Craig Lamberson, president; Wayne Fernandez, executive vice president; Doug Littrell, executive vice president; and Darrin Thomson, vice presidentSPECIALTY: general contractors and construction managersLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Audi Tampa for Reeves Import Motorcars, 36,700-square-foot sales and service center with second floor vehicle storage, Tampa.

Fernandez

Lamberson

Thomson

Littrell

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• U.S. 301 from Erie Road to County Road 675, utility and road-

way improvements, Parrish, $21.13 million• Webber Street, roadway improvements, Sarasota, $11.9 million• Tidewater Preserve, residential utility and site development,

Bradenton, $11.79 million• University Town Center, phase 1B, underground utilities and

retail site development, Sarasota, $17.12 million• 63rd Avenue, roadway improvements, Bradenton, $7.61 million

22Woodruff & Sons Inc.P.O. Box 10127, Bradenton 34282PHONE: (941) 756-1871 • FAX: (941) 755-1379WEB: woodruffandsons.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $29 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $30 million% CHANGE: 3.4FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 153YEAR FOUNDED: 1946PRINCIPALS: Roy J. Woodruff, president; Bruce Woodruff, vice president; Donald Woodruff, vice president; and Linda Wakeman, secretary/treasurerSPECIALTY: sewer, waterline installation, site development and road buildingLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: St. Petersburg 30th Avenue North, storm drainage improvements, St. Peters-burg, $3.61 million

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Bay Village, three-story, 50,000-square-foot nursing-care facil-

ity, Sarasota, $10.4 million• Beall’s Department Store, 60,000-square-foot store, Deerfield

Beach, $2.6 million• Publix Super Market at Bee Ridge Shopping Center,

28,000-square-foot grocery store and 19,000 square feet of retail space, Sarasota, $6.1 million

• Holy Cross II, three-story, 52,000-square-foot apartment com-plex, $7.3 million

• BB&T Bank downtown offices, renovations to existing office space, Sarasota, $130,000

21McIntyre Elwell & Strammer General Contractors Inc.1645 Barber Road, Sarasota 34240PHONE: (941) 377-6800 • FAX: (941) 378-2296WEB: mesgc.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $45.1 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $34.7 million% CHANGE: -23.1FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 55YEAR FOUNDED: 1987PRINCIPALS: John A. McIntyre, president; and Fred Strammer, vice presidentSPECIALTY: commercial construction, senior-care facilities and apartmentsLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Publix # 1327, new gro-cery store with parking garage, Sarasota, $7.3 million

McIntyre R. Woodruff

B. Woodruff

D. Woodruff

Strammer


notewoRtHY PRoJects• HH Gregg, retail tenant finishes, Orlando, $1.8 million• Z Gallerie, new retail construction, Pembroke Pines, $1.17 mil-

lion• Burlington Coat Factory, retail tenant improvements, Glen Al-

len, Va., $1.24 million• T.J. Maxx, retail store, Inverness, $1.65 million• Best Buy, retail store, Victor, N.Y., $1.02 million

23tDs construction inc.4239 63rd St. W., Bradenton 34209PHone: (941) 795-6100 • faX: (941) 795-6101weB: tdsconstruction.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $14.2 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $29.1 million% cHanGe: 104.9full-tiMe eMPloYees: 70YeaR founDeD: 1987PRinciPals: David K. Scherer, president; Robert D. Baker, vice president of construction; and Ron E. Strange, senior project managersPecialtY: retail and tenant build-outslaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Walmart Supercenter #817-201, retail tenant improvements, Kissimmee, $1.21 million

scherer

notewoRtHY PRoJects• Extend Runway 17L-35R at Clearwater International Airport, site work, under-

ground utilities and paving, Clearwater, $12.86 million• Manhattan Avenue widening, site work, underground utilities and paving, Hills-

borough County, $9.33 million• Racetrack Road widening from Douglas Road to Linebaugh Avenue, site work,

underground utilities and paving, Hillsborough County, $9.73 million• State Road 595 from Fourth Street North to 58th Street North, site work, under-

ground utilities and paving, $5.36 million

24R.e. Purcell construction co.1550 Starkey Road, Largo 33771PHone: (727) 584-3329 • faX: (727) 587-6560weB: repurcellconstruction.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $49 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $29 million% cHanGe: -40.8full-tiMe eMPloYees: 130YeaR founDeD: 1973PRinciPals: Raymond E. Purcell, president; Scott Williams, vice president; Larry Bane, chief financial officer; and Jeff Purcell, as-phalt division managersPecialtY: heavy highway construction and asphalt manufacturinglaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: U.S. 41 expansion, roadway reconstruction, underground construction and paving, Land O Lakes, $12.68 million

Baker

strange

notewoRtHY PRoJects• Washington Correctional Institution, new annex, Chipley, $43

million• Lowell Correctional Institution, new annex, Ocala, $28 million• Ese Center, new school, Home in the Hills, $17.9 million• Constans Theatre, theatre building for the University of Florida,

Gainesville, $11 million• Sumter County Jail expansion, expanding a jail, Bushnell, $22

million

25a.D. Morgan corp.716 N. Renellie Drive, Tampa 33609PHone: (813) 832-3033 • faX: (813) 831-9860weB: admorgan.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $36.45 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $28.71 million% cHanGe: -21.2full-tiMe eMPloYees: 30YeaR founDeD: 1989PRinciPals: Rebecca J. Smith, president; and John Kalaf, vice president of operationssPecialtY: general contractor and construction managerlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Lancaster Cor-rectional Institute, secure housing unit and waste and water treatment plant, Trenton, $12.6 million

smith

Kalaf

notewoRtHY PRoJects• Solomon Tropp building, 28,000-square-foot office building,

Tampa, $4.5 million• Bennett Center, 38,000-square-foot retail shopping center,

Bradenton, $5 million• DaRuMa Japanese Steak House & Sushi Lounge, demolition

and interior renovation of a 9,200-square-foot strip mall ten-ant space, Sarasota, $1.51 million

• Riverside Plaza, construction management for a 38,000-square-foot retail and spa complex, Palmetto, $7.26 million

• Ameritex Technologies, 95,000-square-foot manufacturing plant, Bradenton, $5.9 million

26Zirkelbach construction inc.1415 Tenth St. W., Palmetto 34221PHone: (941) 729-0000 • faX: (941) 729-0007weB: zconstruction.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $29.75 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $28 million% cHanGe: -5.9full-tiMe eMPloYees: 22YeaR founDeD: 1996PRinciPals: Alan Zirkelbach, president; and Bruce Illes, senior vice presidentsPecialtY: design/build, commercial construction and construc-tion managementlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Lynches River Electric Cooperative, offices for support and operations of a power com-pany, Pageland, S.C., $11 million

Zirkelbach

illes



NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• City of St. Petersburg Mahaffey Theater, renovation and additions to a

95,000-square-foot theater, St. Petersburg, $21.74 million• St. Anthony’s Hospital, interior and exterior renovation of an existing hospital

and other campus enhancement, St. Petersburg, $20.24 million• Museum of Fine Arts New Hazel Hough Wing, 35,800-square-foot addition

with a 5,600-square-foot conservatory to the existing museum, St. Petersburg, $17.65 million

• Westminster Shores Bahama Place Building, 78,000-square-foot independent-living building with 20 units and associated amenities, St. Petersburg, $14.65 million

• Pinellas County Public Works Operations and Vehicle Storage Buildings, hurri-cane-hardened emergency operations center with fail-over power, water systems and a storage facility for 32 vehicles, Clearwater, $27.39 million

27Hennessy Construction Services Corp.2300 22nd St. N., St. Petersburg, 33713PHONE: (727) 821-3223 • FAX: (727) 822-5726WEB: hcsfl.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $40.76 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $26.27 million% CHANGE: -35.5FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 28YEAR FOUNDED: 1920PRINCIPALS: Bronson Alexander, president, CEOSPECIALTY: construction management, design/build and general contractorLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: First Baptist Church of Dover, 38,405-square-foot sanctuary and education building, Dover, $5.09 million

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Universal Studios Island of Adventure: The Lost Continent,

theme park rides and attraction, Orlando, $13.98 million• Capital One Office Campus, multi-building office campus,

Tampa, $7.21 million• Tampa International Plaza, two-level mall with restaurants and

parking, Tampa, $6.18 million• St. Joseph’s Hospital North, three-level acute-care hospital,

Tampa, $26 million• Boca Ciega High School renovation and extensive renovation of

an existing high school, Gulfport, $10 million

28APG Electric Inc.4825 140th Ave. N., Suite K, Clearwater 33762PHONE: (727) 530-0077 • FAX: (727) 530-0045WEB: apgelectric.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $31.58 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $25.7 million% CHANGE: -18.6FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 250YEAR FOUNDED: 1983PRINCIPALS: John R. Kavula, chairman and CEO; and Jerry Lightner, chief operating officerSPECIALTY: electrical contracting and engineeringLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: University of South Florida Interdisciplinary Science Research and Teaching Facility, a seven-story, 235,000-square-foot education building, Tampa, $6.37 million

Kavula

Lightner

Alexander

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• HMA Newsbank, mechanical installation for a 20,250-square-

foot office build-out, Naples, $109,642• Gateway Waste Water Treatment Plant, mechanical installation

for three buildings in a treatment plant, Naples, $85,700• Charlotte County Utilities Eastport Operations Building, me-

chanical installation for a new 10,186-square-foot facility, Port Charlotte,$180,040

• Hyatt Place, mechanical installation for a five-story hotel, Fort Myers, $655,500

• Marco Island Library Rose Hall, mechanical installation on a new 3,689-square-foot auditorium, Marco Island, $58,750

29Conditioned Air Corp. of Naples Inc.3786 Mercantile Ave., Naples 34104PHONE: (239) 643-2445 • FAX: (239) 643-0996WEB: conditionedair.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $18.2 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $24.5 million% CHANGE: 34.6FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 170YEAR FOUNDED: 1962PRINCIPALS: W. Theodore Etzel III, CEOSPECIALTY: HVAC, sales service and design/buildLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Marbella Lakes Clubhouse, HVAC work for a clubhouse, Naples, $82,000

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Coastland Mall, re-roofing and expansion of a mall, Naples, $1.7

million• Publix freezer and distribution expansion, re-roofing a

700,000-square-foot freezer building, Lakeland, $3.9 million• Evans Replacement school, roofing a new 200,000-square-foot

high school, Orlando, $1.19 million • Envirofocus, roofing a 230,000-square-foot battery plant,

Tampa, $1.4 million• Tropicana Freezer, re-roofing a 300,000-square-foot freezer,

$1.9 million

30Sutter Roofing Co. of Florida8284 Vico Court, Sarasota 34240PHONE: (941) 377-1000 • FAX: (941) 377-4499WEB: sutterroofing.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $24 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $23.6 million% CHANGE: -1.7FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 222YEAR FOUNDED: 1979PRINCIPALS: Stephen Sutter, president; Doug Sutter, vice presi-dent; Tom Henry, chief financial officer; and Bradley Sutter, vice president service divisionSPECIALTY: commercial roofing, maintenance and repairs and architectural sheet metalLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Boca Ciega Replacement High School, reroofing campus, St. Petersburg, $1.44 million

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• University Consumer Square, 110,000-square-foot retail shop, Sarasota, $5 mil-

lion• Manatee County Transportation Complex, 35,000-square-foot office building, $3

million• Trilectron Industries, 130,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, Bradenton,

$5.6 million• Value Place Hotel, eight hotels, statewide, $4 million to $5 million• Venice Fire Station #3, 16,800-square-foot fire station, Venice, NA

32Pat cook construction inc.1904 Manatee Ave. W., Suite 300, Bradenton 34205PHone: (941) 749-1959 • faX: (941) 746-8475weB: patcook.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $21 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $18.3 million% cHanGe: -12.9full-tiMe eMPloYees: 15YeaR founDeD: 1992PRinciPals: Pat Cook, president; Don Sicking, vice president; and Darla Cook, secretary/treasurersPecialtY: schools, retail and government constructionlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Southside Elementary School, 30,000-square-foot addition and a 20,000-square-foot remodel with a new cafeteria and kitchen, Fernandina Beach, $4.2 million

notewoRtHY PRoJects• GSA Immigration and Customs Enforcement, tilt-up concrete

building, Fort Myers, $880,000• Saint Leo University, multistory concrete and masonry educa-

tion building, Tampa, $1.2 million• Fort Stewart Physical Fitness Facility, design/build a tilt-up

facility, Fort Stewart, Ga., $3.6 million• Envirofocus Lead Smelting Facility, tilt-up concrete facility,

Tampa, $2.9 million• SOCCENT Facility, concrete and masonry military facility for

MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, $781,000

31sunshine structures inc.5570 Lee St., Suite 12, Lehigh Acres 33971PHone: (239) 303-1001 • faX: (239) 303-1002weB: sunshinestructures.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $26 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $22 million% cHanGe: -15.4full-tiMe eMPloYees: 136YeaR founDeD: 1999PRinciPals: Rorie Wilson, president; Richard Johnston, vice president operations/COO; Ernie Stuart, vice presi-dent of finance, chief financial officer; and Nick Demint, regional managersPecialtY: cast-in-place concrete, tilt-wall, design/build and federal/military projectslaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Federal Law En-forcement Training Center Dormitories, five-story tilt-up dormitory, Charleston, S.C., $5.5 million

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• Estero Community Park, development of more than 40 acres with a

42,000-square-foot community center, Estero, $10.8 million• Estero Bay Chevrolet, 29,000-square-foot car dealership, Estero, $7.5 million• Park Center, two, two-story medical buildings totaling 30,000-square feet of

space, Fort Myers, $7.5 million• Heritage Bay Clubhouse and Amenities, 31,000-square-foot clubhouse and

tennis courts, five pools, guardhouse and more, Naples, $9.6 million• Country Lakes Business Center, 47,360-square-foot industrial development,

Fort Myers, $4.9 million

34J.l. wallace inc.9111 W. College Pointe Drive, Fort Myers 33919PHone: (239) 437-1111 • faX: (239) 437-1324weB: jlwallaceinc.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $15 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $16 million% cHanGe: 6.7full-tiMe eMPloYees: 17YeaR founDeD: 1997PRinciPals: Jerald L. Wallace, president, CEOsPecialtY: construction management, general contracting and design/buildlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Tom Golisano Field House, a 35,547-square-foot gymnasium for Ave Maria University with a basketball court, Ave Maria, $3.7 million

notewoRtHY PRoJects• PGT/Vinyl Tech, 411,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility,

Venice, $8.6 million• Aladdin Equipment, 80,000-square-foot facility, Sarasota, $4.2 million• Port Manatee Warehouse # 11, 171,000-square-foot warehouse, Palmetto, Not

Available• Sarasota County Administration Building, 120,000-square-foot government

building, Sarasota, $4.6 million• Gold Coast Eagle Distributing headquarters, a distribution facility with

140,000 square feet of cold storage space and 20,000 square feet of office, Lakewood Ranch, $17 million

33Halfacre construction co.7015 Professional Parkway E., Sarasota 34240PHone: (941) 907-9099 • faX: (941) 907-9079weB: halfacreconstruction.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $16.4 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $18.1 million% cHanGe: 10.4full-tiMe eMPloYees: 18YeaR founDeD: 1970PRinciPals: John Jack Cox III, presidentsPecialtY: design/build, tenant leasebacks and general con-tractinglaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Charlotte County Airport, air-traffic control tower, Punta Gorda, $3 million

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NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• 1700 S. MacDill Ave., four-story office building, Tampa, $4.4 million• Holiday Inn Express, five-story hotel, Largo, $6 million• East Lake Offices, five-story office building, Oldsmar, $3.3 million• Lifestyle Family Fitness, interior renovation to a tenant space for a gym, St.

Petersburg, $2.4 million• 50th Street Housing, seven-story student housing, Tampa, $4.25 million

35Wichman Construction5029 W. Grace St., Tampa 33607PHONE: (813) 282-1179 • FAX: (813) 282-0461WEB: wichmanconstruction.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $7.5 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $14.6 million% CHANGE: 94.7FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 10YEAR FOUNDED: 1997PRINCIPALS: Mike Wichman, presidentSPECIALTY: commercial general contractorLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Cheetah Hunt, roller coaster theme-park ride for Busch Gardens, TampaWichman

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Tides of Longboat, balcony concrete restoration and walkway work, Long-

boat Key, $850,000• Islander Club, window and sliding-glass door replacement, Longboat Key,

$1.2 million• St. Armands Circle, concrete restoration of a two-story commercial plaza

and replacing concrete floors, Sarasota, $1.2 million• Fishermans Cove Condominium, demolition and replacement of strip and

repainting exterior walls and waterproofing walkways for a condominium, Siesta Key, $1.1 million

• Pinnacle Apartment, window, concrete and stucco repair for 24-story high-rise, Tampa, $1.45 million

36RL James Inc.13751 Jetport Commerce Parkway, Fort Myers 33913PHONE: (239) 936-6002 • FAX: (239) 936-8175WEB: rljames.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $12.6 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $12.4 million% CHANGE: -1.6FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 100YEAR FOUNDED: 1988PRINCIPALS: Robert L. James, CEOSPECIALTY: painting, concrete repair and window installationLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Seaplace condominium, painting, waterproofing, sealant replacement, concrete restora-tion, stucco repair and control joint installation on three town-homes and two mid-rise buildings, Longboat Key, $925,000

James

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Ethan Allen, retail store, Viera, $2.7 million• Social Security Administration building, office building, Braden-

ton, $4.1 million• Veterans Administration medical center, Bradenton, $2.3 mil-

lion• Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, renovation and an addition to create a

7,900-square-foot restaurant, Tampa, $1.2 million• LDS Meeting House, 16,000-square-foot building, Lake Buena

Vista, $3.4 million

38R.E. Crawford Construction6771 Professional Parkway W., Suite 100, Sarasota 34240PHONE: (941) 907-0010 • FAX: (941) 907-0030WEB: recrawford.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $15.72 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $11.5 million% CHANGE: -26.8FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 20YEAR FOUNDED: 1996PRINCIPALS: Jeff Smith, president/CEO; and Utahna Smith, vice president, chief financial officerSPECIALTY: retail, office, restaurant and medicalLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: LDS Church, church building, Orlando, $2.6 million

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Santa Maria Resort & Hotel, multi-building, 35-unit resort, Key

West, $12.5 million• Staybridge Suites Hotel, five-story, 104-unit hotel, Savannah,

Ga., $8.2 million• Southernmost on the Beach Hotel, five building 87-unit hotel,

Key West, $17.8 million• Florida Key Mosquito Control Hanger & Office, hanger and of-

fices, Marathon, $7.5 million• Senior Citizen Plaza, concrete repair of a five-story, 200-unit

apartment complex, Key West, $7.5 million

37D.L. Porter Constructors Inc.6574 Palmer Park Circle, Sarasota 34238PHONE: (941) 929-9400 • FAX: (941) 929-9500WEB: dlporter.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $13.7 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $12.1 million% CHANGE: -11.7FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 13YEAR FOUNDED: 1977PRINCIPALS: Gary A. Loer, president; and C. Marshall White, vice presidentSPECIALTY: commercial general contractor and construction managerLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Key West Health & Rehabilitation Center, renovation of a 26,000-square-foot nursing facility, Key West, $2.98 million

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center, 40,351-square-foot

medical center housing an ambulatory surgical center, Sebring, $8 million

• Lee County EMS Hanger Facility, 15,000-square-foot helicopter hanger and supporting facility at Page Field Airport, Fort My-ers, $3.1 million

• Surgery Center of Mount Dora, 11,052-square-foot ambulatory and surgery center, Mount Dora, $3.6 million

• South Seas Island Resort Lagoon Pools & Cabanas at the Pointe, a 12,000-square-foot clubhouse and hardscape, Captiva Island, $7.5 million

• Florida Hospital Heartland 36-bed expansion, 50,000-square-foot addition to an existing hospital building, Sebring, $6.4 million

39stevens construction inc.6208 Whiskey Creek, Fort Myers, 33919PHone: (239) 936-9006 • faX: (239) 936-9010weB: stevensconstructioninc.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $9.8 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $11.4 million% cHanGe: 16.3full-tiMe eMPloYees: 14YeaR founDeD: 2003PRinciPals: Mark Stevens, president; Troy Hernly, director of construction; and Terri Sobeck, director of administrationsPecialtY: construction management and health care, hospi-tality and professional facilities constructionlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Eye Specialists Cornea and Laser Center, 4,600-square-foot addition to an existing surgery center, Fort Myers, $2.9 million

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• Elementary School M, masonry work for a new school, Temple Terrace, $1 million• MacDill Dormitory, masonry work for U.S. Air Force residential housing, Tampa,

$800,000• Station Square, masonry work for a high-rise residential project, Clearwater,

$1.95 million• Bradenton Village, masonry work for multifamily residential project, Bradenton,

$3.5 million• Raymond James Stadium, masonry work, Tampa, $7.5 million

40Masonry Builders inc.5012 W. Cypress St., Tampa 33607PHone: (813) 286-4707 • faX: (813) 286-3072weB: masonrybuilders.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $10.4 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $10.6 million% cHanGe: 1.9full-tiMe eMPloYees: 128YeaR founDeD: 1988PRinciPals: Thomas Bradley, president; and Todd Bradley, vice presidentsPecialtY: masonry contractorlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Manatee High School, Davis Building replacement, masonry work for an education building, Bradenton, $2 million

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sobeck

notewoRtHY PRoJects• 21st Oncology Corporate Office, 50,000-square-foot building,

Fort Myers, $850,000• Publix and retail, concrete and masonry for the 70,000-square-

foot Silver Palms grocery store and retail center, Homestead Miami, $700,000

• United Cerebral Palsy School, concrete and masonry for a 50,000-square-foot, two-story new school, Orlando, $620,000

• Walmart Supercenter, remodel and expansion of an existing Walmart Supercenter, Sarasota, $830,000

• Multifamily, concrete, masonry, cast-in-place beams, trusses and more for six 30-unit four-story condominium buildings, Naples and Bradenton, $800,000

41synergy contractors inc.P.O. Box 152729, Cape Coral 33915PHone: (239) 543-2938 • faX: (239) 543-2958weB: synergycontractor.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $10.2 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $9.1 million% cHanGe: -10.8full-tiMe eMPloYees: 75YeaR founDeD: 2006PRinciPals: Nelson C. Nieves, president; and Verne Nieves, vice presidentsPecialtY: concrete and masonry, tilt-wall and shell constructionlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: CocoPlum, con-crete and masonry for a 76,000-square-foot Publix-anchored retail center, North Port, $823,000

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• Venetian Golf and River Club, infrastructure work for a subdivision, Venice,

$24.5 million• Central Park, site-development for 826-home subdivision, Lakewood Ranch,

$9.7 million• Winchester Boulevard, roadway, Charlotte and Sarasota counties, $10.2 mil-

lion• Lakewood Ranch Corporate Park, infrastructure work for a commercial devel-

opment, Lakewood Ranch, $7.9 million• Honore Avenue East, roadway, Manatee County, $7 million

42frederick Derr & co. inc.3801 N. Orange Ave., Sarasota 34234PHone: (941) 355-8575 • faX: (941) 351-8854weB: frederickderrcompany.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $10.9 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $8.7 million% cHanGe: -20.2full-tiMe eMPloYees: 19YeaR founDeD: 1961PRinciPals: Frederick M. Derr, chairmansPecialtY: heavy highway construction, site development, utility installationlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Belleisle Subdivision, infrastructure work for a subdivision, Lakewood Ranch, $2.1 million

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NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• North County Technical Institute, glass contract for two build-

ings, totaling 200,000 square feet, Sarasota, $1.34 million• Sarasota Yacht Club, installing impact-resistant glass and a

curtain wall, Sarasota, $353,000• Charlotte High School, glazing contract for reconstruction of

hurricane-damaged historic school, Punta Gorda, $2.8 mil-lion

• University of South Florida, glass and glazing for a 108,000-square-foot building, Sarasota, $801,839

• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, glazing and curtain wall for a 109,000-square-foot building, Bradenton, $802,784

43Key Glass LLC2312 58th Ave. E., Bradenton 34203PHONE: (941) 755-3414 • FAX: (941) 751-0074WEB: keyglass.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $5.6 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $7.8 million% CHANGE: 39.3FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 40YEAR FOUNDED: 1992PRINCIPALS: Greg Burkhart, president; and Sheril Burkhart, vice president and chief financial officerSPECIALTY: high-performance curtain walls, retail store-fronts and institutional window systemsLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Sarasota Police Headquarters, glazing contract, including installing impact-resistant glass for six-story government building, Sarasota, $2.96 million

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Town of Longboat Key — new facilities project for Public Works

Complex, a police station and town hall, Longboat Key, $6.2 million

• Venice Community Center, renovation, expansion and upgrades to an emergency management shelter, Venice, $4.1 million

• Sarasota County Government, Fire Station #4, new fire-station building, Sarasota, $2.1 million

• Maxine Barrett Park, conversion of an old waste treatment facil-ity to a beachfront park, Venice, $2.6 million

• Sarasota Bradenton International Airport improvements, new administrative offices, fabrication shops and repair/mainte-nance vehicle bays, Sarasota, $3.6 million

44Magnum Builders of Sarasota Inc.4545 Northgate Court, Sarasota 34234PHONE: (941) 351-5560 • FAX: (941) 358-9318WEB: magnumbuilders.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $7.3 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $6.1 million% CHANGE: -16.4FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 7YEAR FOUNDED: 1983PRINCIPALS: Michael Baltzer, president; and Douglas W. Baltzer, senior project manager co-ownerSPECIALTY: general contractor, construction manager and design/builder LARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport restroom renovations, gutting and refreshing 19 restrooms throughout the public areas of the terminal, Sarasota, $1.2 million

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NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Harmony Health Center, medical building, Sarasota $3.8 mil-

lion• Tech Center Phase II, eight new shell buildings, Lakewood

Ranch, $1.8 million• Sterling Park, two-story office shell building, Sarasota $2.9

million• Bridge Street Pier, pier renovation and new buildings, Braden-

ton Beach, $1.7 million• WBA LLC, medical building, Arcadia, $1.3 million

44Southern Cross Contracting Inc.6000 Deacon Place, Sarasota 34238PHONE: (941) 927-1919 • FAX: (941) 927-8986WEB: sccsarasota.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $4.49 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $6.1 million% CHANGE: 35.9FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 12YEAR FOUNDED: 1988PRINCIPALS: John M. Proctor, CEO; Steve Johnson, vice president; and Jason Lancaster, estimatorSPECIALTY: general contracting, design/build and con-struction managerLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Kadampa Meditation Center, interior and exterior renovations for a new Bud-dhist temple, Sarasota, $1.2 million

NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS• Avion Park, 18-acre commercial development with retail and office space, res-

taurant outparcels, a parking garage and hotels, Tampa, $85 million• Manatee School for the Arts, 8,470-square-foot office/administration addition

and a new 11,150-square-foot music building, Palmetto, $3.2 million• Countryside Christian Center New Sanctuary, 100,000-square-foot, two-story

church facility, Clearwater, $23.5 million• Manatee County Rural Health Services, 11,834-square-foot, two-story medical

office building, Bradenton, $1.97 million

46Stellar Development9021 Town Center Parkway, Bradenton 34202PHONE: (941) 907-8788 • FAX: (941) 907-8789WEB: stellargc.com2009 GROSS REVENUE: $5 million2010 GROSS REVENUE: $6 million% CHANGE: 20FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES: 7YEAR FOUNDED: 1999PRINCIPALS: Maurice Opstal, president and Brian Ellis, director of operationsSPECIALTY: general contractor, owner’s representative and construction managerLARGEST PROJECT STARTED IN 2010: Norwegian Sea-man’s Church and Scandinavian Community Center, a 12,000-square-foot rectory, 3,200-square-foot church addition, chapel and a 5,650-square-foot community center, Davie, $3.6 million

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• Conservancy of Southwest Florida, campus renovations, Naples $12 million• Townhouses of Deep Creek, 52-unit townhome development, Port Charlotte,

$8 million• Olde Naples North Self Storage, 170,000-square-foot self-storage facility,

Naples, $6.5 million• Two Rivers Business Park, office, warehouse and storage facility, Bradenton,

$4.5 million• CNL Bank headquarters, office building, Bonita Springs, $1.7 million

48Heatherwood construction co.8880 Terrene Court, Bonita Springs 34135PHone: (239) 949-6855 • faX: (239) 949-6856weB: heatherwoodconstruction.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $3.1 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $4.3 million% cHanGe: 38.7full-tiMe eMPloYees: 10YeaR founDeD: 1980PRinciPals: Walter M. Crawford IV, president and CEOsPecialtY: renovations and LEED certificationslaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Conservancy of Southwest Florida Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, 8,500-square-foot rehabilitation center building, Naples, $1.7 million

notewoRtHY PRoJects• Naval Facilities Engineering Command, interior work for a 22,000-square-

foot child care center, Norfolk Naval Station, Va., $255,000• Fort Bragg Barracks Renewal Project, site fixtures and more for two four-story

and one six-story residential building, Fort Bragg, N.C., $2.45 million• Fort Pierce Federal Courthouse Project, exterior framing and more for a court-

house project, Fort Pierce, $846,000• James A Haley Veterans’ Hospital Polytrauma Addition, architectural pre-cast

wall panels for a 170,000-square-foot hospital addition, Tampa, $2.43 million

47veteran contractors8433 Enterprise Circle, Suite 140, Lakewood Ranch 34202PHone: (877) 361-2620 • faX: (941) 552-0350weB: veteranconstructors.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $0.1 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $5.65 million% cHanGe: 5550full-tiMe eMPloYees: 10YeaR founDeD: 2009PRinciPals: Andreas Knispel, president and CEOsPecialtY: design/build, construction management and general contractinglaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Thrun Hall Barrack and Galley, construction management for a 164-room barracks with an 11,000-square-foot dining facility and associated infrastructure, Elizabeth City, $16.83 million

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• Pennsylvania Station, three warehouse/manufacturing buildings with

61,500 square feet, Sarasota, $6 million• 1250 Medical Plaza, three-story, 40,000-square-foot medical official build-

ing, Sarasota, $8.5 million• Tervis Tumbler Corp. headquarters and warehouse facility, 60,000-square-

foot corporate offices and manufacturing plant, Venice, $3.9 million• Gulf Coast Digestive Heath Center, 13,000-square-foot medical office build-

ing, Venice, $2.6 million• Galleria on Venice Avenue Phase 1, 32,468-square-foot retail and commer-

cial project, Venice, $5 million

49J. e. charlotte construction corp.1500 E. Venice Ave., Suite 101, Venice 34292PHone: (941) 445-4045 • faX: (941) 445-4031weB: jecharlotte.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $6.5 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $3.5 million% cHanGe: -46.2full-tiMe eMPloYees: 5YeaR founDeD: 2007PRinciPals: Jeff Charlotte, presidentsPecialtY: construction management services, gen-eral contractor and design/builderlaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Iberia Bank, two new branches, Sarasota and Boynton Beach, $795,000

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notewoRtHY PRoJects• Peachland Avenue Sidewalks, four miles of connector side-

walks, Port Charlotte, $1.55 million• The Ritz-Carlton Members Golf Club phases 1 & 2, entry road

and utilities, Bradenton, $1.79 million• North Sarasota Neighborhood Enhancement Project, side-

walks, roadway and utility improvements, Sarasota $2.2 million

• Atwater and Toledo Blade Elementary School Sidewalk Project, sidewalk construction for two schools, North Port, $940,000

• City of Sarasota Police Headquarters, site work, infrastructure and utilities for a police building, Sarasota, $672,000

50Bennett contracting inc.6029 33rd St. E., Bradenton 34203PHone: (941) 756-8200 • faX: (941) 756-0087weB: bennettcontractinginc.com2009 GRoss Revenue: $3.3 million2010 GRoss Revenue: $3 million% cHanGe: -9.1full-tiMe eMPloYees: 21YeaR founDeD: 2000PRinciPals: Jason Bennett, president; and Alisa S. Bennett, vice presidentsPecialtY: site work and underground utilitieslaRGest PRoJect staRteD in 2010: Robert L. Taylor Commu-nity Center, community center, Sarasota, $1.359 millionJ. Bennett

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