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Build of dreams
Pave of the future
Jerry Buck, director of sales for Anton Cabinetry
North Texas Paving LLC has grown and taken many roads since its start 25 years ago.
rom its humble beginning in 1974 as Southwest Cabinet Corporation and its 2,000sf space, to its current 80,000sf facility, Anton Cabinetry has come a long way, baby. John Anton’s “little small shop,” as director of sales Jerry Buck called it, has morphed from doing mostly residential jobs to mega-commercial ones. The move to the commercial world occurred in the 1980s. Back then, the average home makeover was pretty much the same with what was trending at the time. The commercial arena is far more diverse and dynamic. “We’re 100 percent custom,” Buck said. “There is nothing that sits in inventory on a shelf somewhere.” Buck used to own his own cabinet
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business but has been with Anton Cabinetry for the past 13 years, also working as the chief estimator. “We have a very niche market that John was able to get into in the mid ‘90s,” Buck explained. Anton Cabinetry still does some residential work, but it’s very select and usually very high-end. However, commercial work has its own benefits: it usually runs smoother from start to finish, as opposed to the homeowner who gets an “inspiration” halfway into a project and wants to change things. And, it stands to reason that a commercial job brings in more income than a residential one. Anton has done some big projects, too. Buck enters into the conversation continued on Page 14
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n 1994, North Texas Paving LLC started out patching a pothole here, doing a little seal coating there. Today, the company does so much more than just a little of anything. “We have really grown over the years,” company founder Allen Buchanan says. “We’re a full-service paving company. We do pothole patching, seal coating, overlays, new construction, chip and seal, concrete, energy, and subdivision developments. In the past three years, we have gotten really deep into subdivision developments. We also have a growing list of cities and small municipalities for which we have begun to do street repairs and road developments as well as road and street repairs for utility contractors.
We have a pretty good list of developers that use us and in the last three years have probably done 50 extremely large subdivisions that we’ve covered with asphalt and chip and seal. We have a very good client base, a lot of Fortune 500 companies that we have continuously done work for over the past 25 years.” North Texas Paving LLC has grown to nine employees, runs two full-time crews and has offices in Aubrey, Forney, Fort Worth, Pilot Point and Weatherford which serve clients within a 200-mile radius of the D/FW area. In six months, North Texas Paving LLC will move its headquarters, which are currently in Forney, to a new facility in Canton, TX (the Forney location will still be in operation). continued on Page 14
Online retailer calls Plano home
ince 1946, Bob Moore Construction has delivered outstanding commercial, industrial, and multifamily construction projects in Texas and around the United States. Moore completed his first project in 1946. Expansion capabilities from grain storage to more complex buildings such as offices, retail and industrial buildings began to take flight by the 1950s. During the ‘70s, tilt-up wall construction became an expansion of Bob Moore Construction’s capabilities, becoming the first general contractor to be certified by the Tilt-Up Concrete Associations (TCA). “Our projects have been recognized for construction excellence and safety on the international stage. Any company can say they build projects ‘on time and in budget,’ but Bob Moore Construction has the reputation and experience to back it up,” says Philllip Bell, CEO of Bob Moore Construction.
Signazon.com facility, Plano, TX.
Experienced in private-only work, whether it be commercial, industrial or multifamily construction, the 30-employee Arlington firm made a perfect fit for the construction of the Signazon.com project, an online retailer and manufacturer of signs, banners and marketing materials. Project Manager Tray Hardin and Superintendents Stacy Langston and Edgar Valles oversaw the construction of the new 56,000sf multi-use office, warehouse and manufacturing facility in Plano, TX. From start to completion, the project was constructed in eight short months accounting for rain days with an approximate construction cost of $5M. It was a fairly smooth-running project. The only real challenges faced by the Bob Moore team were some weather delays. The project was built using tilt-up concrete walls with steel framed interior office space. continued on Page 14