Firm Opens Nebraska Office to Expand Midwest Operations
Date Posted: November 19, 2015
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Byrne & Jones Construction, is growing its operations as it settles into a new headquarters in Bridgeton. The firm, which also has an office in Peoria, Illinois, has opened a third office in Nebraska and has completed its largest paving project ever in North Dakota, where commercial businesses having been booming, spurred by the state’s fracking industry. Byrne & Jones is on pace to triple its revenue this year from 2009, when it began expanding its geographic service area in the Midwest.
“We’re an engineering-based company and have been able to work directly with construction consumers to provide creative solutions to their paving needs,” said Brian Goggins, president of Byrne & Jones. “That has led to a lot of repeat work and opened up the opportunity to perform our largest project ever in Minot, North Dakota rebuilding 37 acres of parking at the Dakota Square Mall.”
Dakota Square Mall is owned by Chattanooga, Tennessee-based CBL and Associates Properties, Inc. which also owns Chesterfield Mall, Mid Rivers Mall, South County Center and West County Center in St. Louis, all of which have relied on Byrne & Jones for paving needs. Even though low oil prices have slowed the booming fracking industry in North Dakota, Goggins says the state’s department of transportation still has an aggressive paving budget that is keeping North Dakota paving firms busy. That has created intense demand for asphalt paving and concrete work for long-neglected shopping centers like the Dakota Square Mall which has benefited from the state’s employment surge serving the fracking industry. Byrne & Jones’ $7 million project for the Dakota Square Mall was completed in July 2015. It has just embarked on a second large paving project in North Dakota for CBL.
Meanwhile, Byrne & Jones’ new Gretna, Nebraska office anticipates generating $5 million in revenue this year after producing $2.5 million in 2014. Led by Todd Schlueter, the firm serves commercial and municipal paving needs in Nebraska and Western Iowa.
Located on an 8.3-acre site at 13940 St. Charles Rock Road, Byrne & Jones’ new 21,000-square-foot St. Louis headquarters consolidates operations that were formerly scattered in three buildings in Maryland Heights. The headquarters features 12,000 square feet of office space and a 9,000-square-foot shop to maintain its fleet of paving vehicles.
Designed by Hastings+Chivetta Architects, Inc., the office includes a workout facility. “It’s an efficient layout with some nice amenities and should be a great asset to recruiting the best employees to propel the company forward,” said Goggins. Byrne & Jones has more than doubled its workforce since 2009 and now employs more than 150 people.
In addition to asphalt and concrete divisions, Byrne and Jones also has a sports division which completed 32 athletic field projects nationally last year, including 19 projects in the greater St. Louis area. Among its most recent are four projects for the Rockwood School District, a new football field for Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, and two practice football fields for the University of Notre Dame. The sport division is on track to complete 35 projects this year.
Founded in 1977, St. Louis-based Byrne & Jones Construction is the region’s largest commercial paving contractor and serves its clients through four divisions – concrete, sports, asphalt and micro surfacing. The firm builds and maintains parking lots, roads and highways, athletic fields, running tracks, tennis courts, underground drainage systems and paved surfaces. It also performs soil stabilization.