Here are the Top 10 general contractors in Arizona, based on public voting for the 2024 edition of Ranking Arizona, the state’s biggest and most comprehensive business opinion poll. Ranking Arizona is based purely on opinion and ranks companies based on how voters answer this simple question: with whom would you recommend doing business?
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Top 10 Arizona general contractors
Here are the Top 10 general contractors in Arizona, as featured in the 2024 edition of Ranking Arizona:
Arizona workforce of 198 or more
1. Willmeng Construction
Background: Founded in 1977, Willmeng is Arizona’s largest, privately owned general contractor and has maintained a reputation of stellar client service throughout its history. Willmeng has a diverse portfolio of projects and operates in 14 different market sectors. Willmeng places nothing more important to the organizational health of the company than its overall focus on culture. With a true family feel and the opportunity to participate in building a genuine place of purpose for clients and employees, Willmeng has the distinct advantage of something exceptional and special in the culture.
2. DPR Construction
3. Haydon Building Corp
4. Hunter Contracting Co.
5. McCarthy Building Companies
6. CHASSE Building Team
7. Hensel Phelps
8. Kitchell
9. Okland Construction
10. Brycon Corporation
Arizona workforce of 71-197 or more
1. CORE Construction
Background: CORE Construction’s founder, Otto Baum, immigrated to Morton, Illinois, in 1925 with the hopes of building a new life for his family. He quickly established a reputation for being an honest, hard-working man. When Otto applied for a loan for his masonry company in 1937, he had nothing to use as collateral except his proven character. When the bank manager asked why they should consider Otto’s request, the loan officer simply replied, “I trust him.” This event sparked the beginning of CORE, which now operates across Arizona with the same values that Otto started the company with in 1937.
2. LGE Design Build
3. Ryan Companies US
4. Caliente Construction
5. Kowalski Construction
6. Bjerk Builders
7. JE Dunn Construction
8. Wespac Construction
9. Stevens Leinweber Construction
10. Holder Construction Company
Arizona workforce of 70 or fewer
1. Sun Eagle Corporation
Background: Sun Eagle Corporation, an Arizona- based company owned by the Alvarez family, is proud of its business heritage for the past five generations. Its business family history was started in 1980 by Carmen Alvarez, who owned a general store in Maricopa, Arizona, from 1880 through 1890. Dolores Stiles Alvarez owned a real estate company in Casa Grande from 1922 through 1955. Ernest Alvarez owned a trucking business from 1933 through 1968. Martin Alvares, Sr. CEO and founder, started Sun Eagle Corporation, a general contracting company, in 1978. John and AJ Alvarez are also owners of Sun Eagle Corporation and have been with the company since 1993.
2. Canyon Building & Design
3. Derek Builders
4. Concord General Contracting
5. MT Builders Companies
6. Adolfson & Peterson Construction
7. FCI Constructors
8. Sun State Builders
9. Johansen Interiors
10. Double AA Builders Ltd.
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