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Modern Continental Construction was a heavy-construction company and the original business in the Modern Continental group. It was founded in 1967 by Kenneth Anderson and Italian immigrant Les Marino. Beginning with a single sidewalk contract in Peabody, Massachusetts, the company grew into a regional heavy construction giant. [2]
This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1]
Eastbay's parent company, F.W. Woolworth Company, also underwent a major revision, being reorganized as Venator Group in 1997 and changing its name in 2001 to Foot Locker, Inc. [2] In 2022, Foot Locker announced that Eastbay and its distribution center in Wausau would permanently close during the first half of 2023, resulting in 210 layoffs.
The pedestrian and bicycle route connects the East Bay to Yerba Buena Island. As of 2024, there is no bicycle or pedestrian lane on the western span of the Bay Bridge connecting Yerba Buena Island to San Francisco, but bicycles and pedestrians can instead travel by bus or ferry between the island and San Francisco. [87]
In 1923, EBMUD was founded due to the rapid population growth and severe drought in the area. The district constructed Pardee Dam (finished in 1929) on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra Nevada, and a large steel pipe Mokelumne Aqueduct to transport the water from Pardee Reservoir across the Central Valley to the San Pablo Reservoir located in the hills of the East Bay region.
The company's first project was utility and road work at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC. [5] Despite starting around the same time and having a similar name as competitor Turner Construction, which started in 1902, Whiting-Turner has always been its own completely separate company. [11] [12] [5]
Named after the flatiron rock formations found near Boulder, Colorado, Flatiron was originally a small materials company. Flatiron Structures Company LLC was founded in 1972 as they expanded into heavy construction. In the late 1980s, the company conducted work along Interstate 70 (I-70) through the Glenwood Canyon Corridor in Colorado.
Six Companies, Inc. was a joint venture of construction companies that was formed to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona. [1]They later built Parker Dam, a portion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Colorado River Aqueduct across the Mojave and Colorado Deserts to urban Southern California, and many other large projects.