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Article: Founder's vision key to Arctic Structures' success: family owned business manufactures, sells and rents modular buildings.(SPECIAL SECTION: BUILDING ALASKA)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Forty-five years ago, Harry Pursell started a business renting and selling camping trailers, and as his business grew, he began manufacturing mobile homes and camps. Seeing the potential in such a business, he later bought a number of pipeline camp facilities from Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., which marked the beginnings of his company's modular rental fleet. As the rental business continued to build, Pursell began manufacturing his own modular buildings to meet the growing demands of his customers.
The result of the half-century of work that followed is Arctic Structures LLC, a family owned and operated business in Anchorage, Valdez and Palmer, with annual ...