Construction wasn’t a dream, per se, for Brandon Cosentino. At first, as a young teenager, it was a means to supporting his family. “My Dad passed away when I was 15,” Brandon said. “I had to help Mom pay bills and make sure everything was financially straight.” So he took advantage of a summer job …
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Back in 1993, on one hot, Virginia summer day, all 17-year-old Steve Snell wanted to do was get to the mall to spend the money burning a hole in his pocket. But when he got to the bus stop at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, where he was faced with a two-hour layover …
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Ask Renal Loit to tell you about Estonia and his face lights up. His words flow freely, describing a country in line on the same latitude with Vermont, complete with similar climate, rolling hills and half of its borders overlooking water. The people are a conservative bunch, loyal to their country and full of pride …
As a little girl growing up in Newport News, Debbi Gardner would look at the newspaper – in the days when they would publish sample house plans – and pull out her own notebook to design and draw her own versions. You could say she knew from an early age that her brain worked well …
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There’s something about working on the Spain Commercial, Inc. team that’s like playing on a baseball team, Ryan Fleischmann will tell you. He would know. Today, Ryan serves as a Superintendent for Spain Commercial, Inc., but it was as a baseball pitcher in high school and college that he learned the culture of teamwork, of …
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Kayleigh Spain-Moore may have started out her work in commercial construction removing toilets and sweeping floors, but earlier this month, as the social media and marketing coordinator for Yorktown, Va.-based Spain Commercial, Inc., she was front and center in Menlo Park, Ca. at Facebook’s headquarters. Moore and Spain Commercial were one of only 400 organizations …
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More than 70 residents, community leaders and health care workers on the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck gathered Wednesday, February 28, 2018 to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the soon to be combined Riverside Orthopedic Specialists Gloucester and Riverside York River Orthopedics practices. The combined office is located at 7560 Hospital Drive, Building B, Suite …
A storied Gloucester Point crossroads is getting a facelift and more, thanks to new owners and construction partners with a plan to return a local shopping landmark to its former glory. Tidemill Shops, at the corner of Tidemill Road and Route 17, has been purchased by Steve Barrs of C.A. Barrs and Steve Spain of …
The York County Office of Economic Development and the York Economic Development Authority awarded Spain Properties with the 2017 William Rogers “Poor Potter” Award for significant investment in the county. Owner Steve Spain accepted the award. Spain’s latest building has 18,000 square feet of commercial flex space, with 15,000 square feet already leased to new …
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How Steve Spain of Spain Commercial, Inc. built more than one of Virginia’s top commercial construction companies. How he built a legacy filled with love for his community. Like it was yesterday, Ashley Spain Morelos and Kayleigh Spain Moore can see their Dad sitting at the small desk in their childhood home, book in hand, …
