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Volume 16
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JUNE 2017
Keeping up with the times
A reclaiming style
L-R: Stacy Breihan and Ted Breihan, owner
L-R: Jules Middleton, owner and April Visnapuu, administrative & studio manager
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ed Breihan Electrical Contractors is a 64-year old company located in San Marcos, TX. Ted Breihan, owner and WWII veteran, started the company in 1953, after moving to San Marcos from Kerrville, TX. Breihan, now 90-years-old, was working for an electrician while going to school making a little extra money when he moved. “San Marcos started growing so fast in the 1950s that I just stayed here, and started my own business and have been contracting around Central Texas ever since,” says Breihan. Son, Stacy and daughter-in-law, Michele help run the company business. Business is steady, and like most companies, they find themselves short
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pecializing in tilt wall construction, DKC Construction Group recently completed building one of a twobuilding commercial flex-building complex, located at 1205 Sheldon Cove. Sheldon Cove Corporate Center is made up of commercial condos. “These commercial condos are fully customized for each user and at a price point and high quality not available in other product types in Austin, particularly for small to medium-sized businesses needing between 3,000 - 12,000sf of high quality office and flex space, “ says Colin Laitner, Metis Capital LLC, developer of Sheldon Cove. Building one of the two-building project took nine months to complete. From raw land development to the finished product, the project cost $6,000,000. Laitner stated that interacting with public and private utilities in a new area of ground up development was
on good electricians. “We try to encourage schools, private and public, to move into more technical trades, not just electrical, because they can use their brains and their hands both. We do a lot of utility work, water plants, and wastewater plants. It’s all computer-generated today. Everything has gone to computers and that’s where our schools need to pick it up more. Not only the engineering end of it, but the inventing of new equipment, to everything all the way through,” says Breihan. They’ve done a little bit of everything over the years from house wiring, not much residential these days, to commercial. Football and baseball fields, continued on Page 17
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sing old wood is a very popular style in design today whether it is old fence wood or old barn wood; it just doesn’t seem to matter. The style is in high demand. A family-owned and operated mill with over 40 years experience, Texas Reclaimed Floors has taken old, weathered wood to a new level. Located in Austin, TX, the company has been going strong for several years and opened a second location in Iowa in July 2015. The professional design staff, with over 30 years of design experience, works with residential and commercial clients to source quality, historic reclaimed materials that work for their projects and budgets. “We can literally source any reclaim-
ed material needed including reclaimed flooring and new flooring, structural beams, weathered boards, and one-ofkind specialty items,“ says Jules Middleton, owner & designer. “All of the reclaimed wood we sell has interesting, unique and exciting stories. We sold reclaimed maple flooring that was sourced from the executive offices of the Whitehouse. It’s fun when we are able to figure out the origin of a certain order and relay that information to our clients. They love telling their friends and family the story behind their reclaimed wood.” A two-woman business, Middleton, and administrative & studio manager, April Visnapuu, work very closely with continued on Page 17
Class A commercial condos
Sheldon Cove Corporate Center located at 1205 Sheldon Cove offers customized commercial condos.
a major challenge for the project. Building two is underway and, is scheduled for completion in August. The project consisted of raw land site preparation and the construction of a 50,000-sf concrete tilt wall flex building with tenant finish out. Polished concrete floors, abundant natural light, including skylights, and elevator accessibility are just a few of the features the project offers. Karl Conger, president and Robert Juarez, vice president oversaw the project from the ground up and all of the finish out, to final inspections. “This is a different type of product which leans to subcontractors and small tech businesses, but has the potential to receive large tenants as well. It’s a different design because it allows a class A finish out with critical warehouse space without taking away from the high end finish out in the office area,” says Conger about the project. continued on Page 17