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McGuire and Hester

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Type
  
ESOP

Founded
  
1926

Website
  
mcguireandhester.com

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Industry
  
Engineering Pipelines Grade Pave Concrete Mechanical Landscape

Headquarters
  
Oakland, California, United States

Key people
  
Michael Hester (President)

McGuire and Hester is an engineering, design, and construction company. McGuire and Hester has two offices located in Oakland and Sacramento, California.

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History

In the 1890s Michael J. McGuire emigrated from Ireland to California. In 1926, he started installing sewers for houses in Oakland. In 1931, Michael J. McGuire asked his friend Mike Hester to be his business partner. The company “McGuire and Hester” was founded in 1947. A year later, Michael J. McGuire died, and Mike Hester purchased all the shares in the company.

By the 1970s, second generation expanded operations from just construction to grading and paving, concrete and mechanical work.

In the 1990s, the company added landscaping, architectural concrete and aggregate divisions operations to the existing ones. They also started working on the projects that are not only located in California, but Oregon and Nevada as well.

In 2003 McGuire and Hester company became 100% employee owned (ESOP) company.

Projects

  • Alameda County Courthouse, Downtown Oakland, CA
  • Laid all the underground utilities at the Oakland Army Base and Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, CA
  • Installed a section of the Hetch Hetchy water system, San Francisco, CA
  • Created a prototype for the California Aqueduct Canal, CA
  • Beautified Market Street, San Francisco, CA
  • Beautified the Powell Street Cable Car and Turntable, San Francisco, CA
  • Embellished Napa Downtown Mall, Napa, CA
  • Reconstructed the 12th Street Dam Area near Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
  • Palo Alto Medical Foundation San Carlos Center - Sitework including landscape, concrete and green roof

    • Awards

    STAR 101.3

  • Coolest Place to Work in the Bay Area (2014)

    • San Francisco Business Times

  • Largest Commercial Contractors in the Bay Area (2014)
  • Largest Commercial Contractors in the Greater Bay Area (2015)
  • Largest East Bay Private Companies (2014)

    • Mercury News Group

  • Best Place to Work (2014)

    • American Society of Civil Engineers

  • Construction Project of the Year (2014) - Dorsey Drive Interchange Project

    • American Public Works Association

  • Project of the Year (2013) - Del Paso Boulevard Streetscape

    • Bay Area News Group

  • Top Workplaces (2012 - 2015)

    • Esop Association

  • Total Communications Runner Up Program Award (2010)

    • References

    McGuire and Hester Wikipedia
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