Article: Reinventing Residential.(Feature)

Reinventing Residential

Rebecca Wasieleski, Editor

ABI Corp. overcame its reputation as a solely residential concrete company and reinvented itself as a construction firm that performs concrete work of any kind.

In 2006, ABI Corp. was enjoying a busy residential market. With the five-county Kansas City, Mo., area seeing 13,000 housing starts that year, the ABI Corp. crews were installing six basements a day and the company was offering commercial work solely on request to existing clients. Fast forward two years and the story changes dramatically -- 3,200 housing starts in 2008 and the ABI Corp. crews down to one basement a day. The game had ...

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