Shane Boatright’s story reads like an old-fashioned, boy-makes-good Hollywood movie. After growing up with modest means in a Southern steel town, Boatright put himself through the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa by working summers for a railroad company. He pounded spikes, sprayed weed-killer along the tracks “or anything else ...

Whoever said you can’t fool Mother Nature probably wasn’t from Texas. At least not from Jefferson County in the far southeastern corner of the state, where nature’s way includes frequent flooding due to a slope of just 0.05 percent across miles of territory. Tired of seeing their homes, roads and crops ...

Hard-working people and wide range of equipment enable Tully Construction to diversify. Tully Construction Company Inc. works in the thick of the New York construction scene. One of the largest construction firms in the state, it tackles projects for an alphabet soup of government agencies, including the state DOT, the MTA ...

Kelco Landscaping and Construction adds greenery to one of the most developed areas on Earth. You’ve probably seen the work of Kelco Landscaping and Construction, even if you’ve never been to New York City. In its 40-plus years, the company has done much to beautify and enhance many high-profile, ...

Even as the deep recession hit the construction industry in 2008, Larry Davis, owner and president of L.E. Davis Construction of Harrison, Ark., led his company to a 60 percent annual revenue increase for the year, its best year ever. When the recession deepened in 2009, Davis Construction continued at ...