(front row, left to right)
Jim Delaney, Turner Construction
Susan McGreevy, Stinson Morrison Hecker

Rosie Privitera-Biondo, Mark One Electric
(Co-Chair/Co-Sponsor)
Teresa Martin, Lockton Companies

Joe Privitera, Mark One Electric (Co-Sponsor)

(middle row, left to right)

David Rezac, 360 Architecture
Joe Sweeney, Ingram's Magazine

Brett Gordon, McCownGordon

Scott Vath, Titan Construction

John Foudray, Neighbors Construction

(standing, left to right)

Don Greenwell, Builders' Association

Rick Maniktala, M.E. Group, Inc.

Randy Bredar, J.E. Dunn Construction

Parker Young, Straub Construction

Jeff Riesberg, CECO Concrete/Builders' Association

Mitch Hoefer, Hoefer Wysocki Architects

Jason Klumb, General Services Administration

Tom Vrabac, Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

David Kendrick, Greater Kansas City Building & Construction Trades Council

Bill Iler, Design Mechanical, Inc.

Doug Irvin, Lockton Companies

Future Looking Up for Area Builders

On still another frozen early February afternoon, two dozen of the leaders of the construcion and design industry gathered at the conference room of Mark One Electric, the co-sponsor of Ingram’s 11th annual Industry Outlook assembly dedicated to the building trades.

“I feel encouraged that we are going to make it and we are going to be here a long time to come,” said Rosie Privitera Biondo, Mark One’s president and chair of the day’s proceedings.

Although Biondo was speaking of the status of her firm, whose complex nicely bridges Troost just east of Downtown, she might just as well have been speaking of the fate of those still standing after two-plus tumultuous years in the business. The general outlook was optimistic with a precision focus on positioning for the future.