He’s got lots of “Mister-izing” to oversee. Such as in the Tri-Cities region of southeast Washington state, where Mister Car Wash recently enhanced its status as the nation’s largest chain of its kind. It bought seven car washes in the municipalities of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, and all either have been upgraded or are undergoing […]
Case Studies Region: Southwest
Jessie Patrick – Owasso Public Schools
Feminine, but with a fierce side. This is how Jessie Patrick describes herself. A diminutive and lithe ballerina by avocation and a school district’s construction director by vocation, her high heels just might be heard clicking on a concrete foundation. Or even on a roof. “I’ve heard I’m a lot more involved in being on-site […]
Willie De-Souza – Primoris
Determining where the renewable energy markets will go is like reading the tea leaves, but under current market conditions the solar market is on the rise, says Willie De-Souza of Primoris Services Corp. One of the reasons for the uptick of activity at the Dallas-based holding company is the availability of tax credits for projects […]
Andrea Grice – Community Dental Partners
When Andrea Grice joined Community Dental Partners in 2017, she was unsure about her new position—it was with a smaller company and in a different working environment altogether. But within a month she knew she’d made the right decision, relishing the freedom as the executive director of facilities to develop her department. Now business is […]
Gordon Stevenson – Goodnight Midstream
If you’re from Texas, it’s likely you know a good bit about football and just as much about the oil industry. But here’s something you probably don’t know about the latter: Oil production can produce naturally occurring formation water—and lots of it. Properly disposing of that water, while meeting strict environmental standards, is the business of […]
Jose Morales – FlashParking
The equation may appear simple when designing a new parking garage. But while it’s still about how many spaces are needed and how traffic flows inside, 21st century variables are now part of the math. As Jose Morales of FlashParking notes, even the basic steps of getting a time-stamped ticket from a dispenser and then […]
Steve Eiss – Banner Health
As Steve Eiss puts it, he and the team at Banner Health in Phoenix, Arizona, don’t build hospitals; they open them—and at a rapid pace. BH’s executive director of facilities development since June 2020, Eiss manages most project components including concept, design, construction and management. The company owns or leases 480 health care-related properties: medical […]
Brian Martin – Medical City Plano and Medical City Frisco
No matter what the health crisis at Medical City Plano in North Texas, Facilities Management Director Brian Martin says the 600+ bed hospital, located in thriving Collin County, is ready. As Collin County’s only Level I trauma center, Medical City Plano regularly accepts transfer patients from more than 200 hospitals in a four-state region. Level […]
Phillip Jones – Massage Envy
Prior to the pandemic, the idea of de-stressing for an hour in one of Massage Envy’s franchised locations with soothing, low-lit, dark purple treatment rooms may have seemed the ideal. But in the days of COVID-19? The massage, wellness and skin care national franchisor faced some difficult days as clients stayed physically distant. To help […]
Tommy Osborne – Northwest Independent School District
There’s an old saying that everything is bigger in Texas. It applies to ranches, farms, monuments, stadiums and airports. And a proposed $1 billion construction bonds for a north Texas school district. The Northwest Independent School District, located in the northwest portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, did what it could to ensure the passage […]
