| Construction Starts | City Scoop: El Paso, Texas |
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Improvement in Transportation Starts Helped Buffer Loss of Institutional Work. 
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| Firms in Focus | CF Jordan Construction 7700 CF Jordan Dr.,El Paso, Texas |
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CEO:Darren Woody Employees: 489 Founded: 1969 Public projects: After completing a $50.5-million project for the Texas Army National Guard in El Paso last year, the firm started work at a new high school in Socorro, Texas. |
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Larry Trejo Executive Director Trejo says that infrastructure work along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as Base Realignment and Closure work at Fort Bliss have kept firms busy in recent years, but they also enticed many large firms from other regions to enter the El Paso market. Now that federal work is subsiding, Trejo is concerned about whether small contractors can survive. "The large firms are extremely aggressive and do such a great job of bidding that they can cherry-pick the good jobs," he says. "Now that there's not a lot in the pipeline, we worry if there's enough for our local guys." |
