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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“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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Like it was yesterday, Ashley Spain Morelos can remember seeing her Dad – Steve Spain, founder of Spain Commercial, Inc. – sitting at the small desk in her childhood home, book in hand, studying for his Class A Contractor’s License. “We’d beg him to stop, to come read us bedtime stories,” Morelos said. And he …
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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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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