Amarillo: Faces, Places & Open Spaces

ALLEN’S TRI-STATE MECHANICAL, INC.
Above: Howard C. Allen, in 2006.
Below: Left to right, John, JoBeth and
Linda Allen.
Howard C. Allen is the first employee in
the office each morning at Allen’s Tri-State
Mechanical. The business that is the center of
his life began serving residences as Allen
Plumbing Company soon after World War II.
Allen’s continuous ownership since that time
and his hands-on dedication to excellent service
has caused the company to grow to one of
the largest commercial and industrial plumbing
services in the Amarillo area with a customer
base of over 4,000. His company has
grown from just a solo operation to now
employing over forty employees. Expansion
facilitated the company’s move to its current
location at 404 South Hayden. The use of the
former home of Clark Brick Company, refurbished
and branded with Allen’s Tri-State
Mechanical orange and white paint scheme,
has been a superb recycle of a historic building.
Initially the company started with the only
electric sewer machine in Amarillo and one
pickup to haul it to service calls. Allen’s Tri-
State Mechanical still offers residential service
including plumbing, heating and air conditioning,
and residential appliance repair.
However, as technology has advanced, the
now more aptly named mechanical company
has diversified to serve commercial and
industrial customers. The company’s distinctive
orange and white fleet of forty vehicles is
dispatched daily to provide twenty-four hour
full service to both the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles and surrounding states.
Those services are primarily commercial
plumbing, pumping, heating and air conditioning,
camera inspection, boiler repair,
refrigeration, line washing, and commercial
restaurant equipment installation and repair.
As Amarillo and the surrounding region
grows, so does Allen’s Tri-State Mechanical.
The firm offers mechanical contracting for
new construction and repair and their commercial
and industrial customer base has
kept pace with the industrial growth in
Amarillo’s great economy. Their work with
big industries in Amarillo has grown to the
place where “they help keep the big wheels
going.” Allen’s Tri-State Mechanical works for
county and city governmental entities providing
services for their facilities and public
infrastructure as well.
Being a leader in providing value-added
services to customers by creating successful
partnerships with them is the mission of
Allen’s Tri-State Mechanical. That mission is a
reflection of the personality of Howard C. Allen.
He cares about people, is very customer
oriented, and has a “do it right” attitude. His
philosophy of not going the cheapest route,
but solving his customers’ problems has
cemented his pledge to establish lasting relationships
with his customers by exceeding
their expectations. He has gained the trust of
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