When you stop to think about your life, to interview with a writer who’s crafting your bio, you tend to think about all the official things. When you started at a company. How long you’ve worked there. How many projects in commercial construction you’ve completed. What your skillsets are on a job site. Steve Ortiz, …
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Daniel Yakalavich will tell you, he grew up sheltered. He never smoked. Never drank. Never did drugs. He went to church. And he loved his Momma. Then, when he was about 15-years-old, he went to work for his uncle as a brick mason. “I didn’t have much of those high school years where kids go …
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Does anyone remember who coined the phrase, “the more things change, the more they stay the same?” It’s ok if you said no. Few of us probably do know who said it, but many of us have repeated it over the years. According to the Google machine, if you want to know, it was Jean-Baptiste …
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Homemaker. The dictionary is pretty specific in its definition of a homemaker. “A person, especially a housewife, who manages a home.” But Karen Barrs of Little England Mercantile sees it a little differently. While Little England Mercantile – a home and lifestyle store anchoring the Shops at Tidemill on George Washington Memorial Highway – does …
“I’m right where I belong.” “This is where I’m meant to be.” “I’m going to be here for the rest of my life.” Get Ben Lawrence talking about the work he does at Spain Commercial, Inc. as a Project Manager and Estimator and it’s not the hammer and nails he focuses on. It’s the culture …
The amazing thing about the construction business is you can see the impact of the work you do. Take a company with a dream to expand their warehouse, or a medical practice that wants to build a new doctor’s office. An architect draws up the plans – that you can see. A framer puts up …
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Give him a few minutes and Mike Armentrout can list off dozens of ways the commercial construction industry has changed over the last few decades. Armentrout has been at it so long, he jokes, that he’s now getting hired to go in and renovate the very buildings he built 20 years ago. Design trends have …
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A microwave and Steve Spain. Ask Eddie Betz how he made his way from being the son of a teenage mother, surviving a challenging childhood, fathering three children by the time he was 20, taking a left turn in life, and then returning back to the right path, and you’ll hear a story ripe for …
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Getting started and then crossing the finish line. For runners, those are two critical points. More specifically, it’s the first .2 miles after lacing up shoes to hit the pavement, where you have to get your mind right and focused on the task at hand, or it’s the last .2 miles of a marathon itself. …
Numbers have always come easy to Teresa Moseley. Especially in construction, she said. Perhaps it’s because she comes by it naturally. Moseley joined the Spain Commercial, Inc. team in the accounting department in 2017 following a life of working and living around the construction industry. Originally from Newport News, Moseley went to Ferguson High School …
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