Headquarters Redondo Beach Type of business Private | Website Official website Founded 2001 | |
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Key people Linda Serna Braden, CEOVic Braden, V.P., Chief Operations OfficerVictor (V.J.) Braden, Project Manager/Estimator Products Specializing in health care facility construction,design-build, project planning, project development | ||
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Cornerstone Construction Group is a construction, design and consulting business based in Redondo Beach, California. The firm specializes in Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) projects for medical centers in Southern California.
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Cornerstone Construction performs work in the following industry segments:
Cornerstone Construction opened in 1985 to provide construction services to the healthcare industry. 80 percent of their business comes from the hospital market and the rest from commercial and industrial sources. In 2006, they joined “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” to help make a Redondo Beach home ADA compliant for Kristina Ripatti – a LAPD officer who was shot and paralyzed while on duty.
During the 2008 recession, the owners had to liquidate their savings to keep the doors open at their Redondo Beach company, Cornerstone Construction Group. They laid off 15 workers, dropping to just nine employees by 2011. Sales dropped from $10 million to $2 million in one year. In 2012, and Braden was able to rehire four of the people he let go and brought on six new workers, including electricians, a framer, and a foreman. One reason the company has done well: It remodels and renovates hospitals. “That industry has been growing tremendously, leaps and bounds, and we are doing everything we can to stay abreast of the changes,” Braden said.
Community Service
In 2006 Cornerstone Construction Group led a team of 3000 volunteer trade workers as well as unskilled workers in a $1.2 million project for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition The project built a 3,800 square foot home, fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The home was built for Kristina Ripattie, an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, shot in the line of duty and paralyzed.
In 2009 Cornerstone Construction Group worked to build Cheryl Green community Center to combat gang violence. The project was named after Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old girl who was killed allegedly because of her race. The center was donated to the Boys & Girls Club Harbor Gateway/Torrance.
In 2010 Cornerstone Construction, with community partner Sharefest, completed restoration of the Morell House, one of the few remaining historic Victorian homes remaining in Redondo Beach. The house received over $800,000 worth of repairs, including a new foundation, a new roof, new plumbing and electrical. Volunteers spent thousands of hours restoring the home, according to the Redondo Beach Historical Society.
In 2011 Cornerstone Construction group partnered again with Sharefest, and residents of San Pedro, California, to install a scoreboard in the baseball and softball fields at the San Pedro High School.