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Celebrating 50 Years!
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Celebrating<br />
<strong>Streb</strong><br />
Construction Company Inc.<br />
IOWA CITY, IA<br />
A publication of the Corridor Business Journal, May 25, <strong>2015</strong>
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Celebrating 50 years!<br />
Congratulations<br />
from your friends at<br />
MidCountry Machinery<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
18 Commercial Drive<br />
Iowa City<br />
(319) 338-3498<br />
<strong>Streb</strong>Construction.com<br />
E & F Paving<br />
714 31st Avenue SW<br />
Cedar Rapids<br />
(319) 364-6821<br />
efpaving.com<br />
May 25, <strong>2015</strong><br />
A product of the<br />
Corridor Business Journal<br />
Writer: Cindy Hadish<br />
Designer: Julia Druckmiller<br />
Photography: submitted<br />
MidCountry Machinery<br />
800-206-5936<br />
www.midcountrymachinery.com
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In 1965, Al <strong>Streb</strong> incorporated <strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
Co., Inc., the Iowa City company he founded after<br />
returning from the Korean War. Around the same<br />
time, former Cedar Rapids Streets Commissioner,<br />
Jack Eggleston, joined forces with Ed and Leo<br />
Fitzpatrick to form E & F Paving Company in Cedar<br />
Rapids. As both businesses mark 50 years, now under the<br />
same umbrella of <strong>Streb</strong> Construction, family members<br />
and employees continue the tradition of customer service<br />
started a half-century ago.<br />
Rexcon Mobile Central<br />
Mix Plant<br />
customer service<br />
We Are Proud To Support <strong>Streb</strong><br />
Construction And E&F Paving…<br />
Congrats <strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
Congratulations<br />
On 50 Years!<br />
405 N TROY RD. ROBINS, IA 52328 (319) 393-6406<br />
WWW.PRICEELECTRIC.US<br />
RESIDENTIAL<br />
DATA/FIBER<br />
UTILITY<br />
COMMERCIAL<br />
INDUSTRIAL<br />
Congratulations on 50 years!<br />
(319) 653-3957
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Star Equipment congratulates <strong>Streb</strong> Construction Company, Inc. on<br />
their 50th Anniversary! We’re proud to partner with <strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
and look forward to working with you for many more years.<br />
Cedar Rapids<br />
Des Moines<br />
Waterloo<br />
Ames<br />
Construction Equipment<br />
& Supplies<br />
Congratulations E & F Paving Company, LLC<br />
on your 50th Anniversary!<br />
319-365-5139 Cedar Rapids · Des Moines · Waterloo · Ames starequip.com
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STREB CONSTRUCTION<br />
“We just basically grew the business,” co-owner and vice president,<br />
Steve <strong>Streb</strong>, said of he and his brother, Dave <strong>Streb</strong>, who serves as<br />
president and co-owner of <strong>Streb</strong> Construction.<br />
Their father, Al <strong>Streb</strong>, started out building houses before developing<br />
commercial buildings and residential subdivisions during the 1970s<br />
in the North Liberty and Iowa City area.<br />
His dad wasn’t necessarily considered “handy,” Steve said with a<br />
smile, but provided the organization<br />
and leadership needed to operate a<br />
successful business.<br />
leadership<br />
Around the time his brother returned<br />
from Oklahoma State University and began working full-time for the<br />
company in the early 1980s, the farm crisis had hit.<br />
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Steve <strong>Streb</strong>, Vice President<br />
& Co-owner and Dave <strong>Streb</strong>,<br />
President & Co-owner<br />
Hard work, dedication and<br />
doing the right thing for<br />
Generations. Congratulations<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction!!<br />
Shelly <strong>Streb</strong>-Alberts,<br />
REALTOR ®<br />
Licensed Real Estate Broker in Iowa<br />
319.331.2654<br />
www.shellystreb.com<br />
<strong>Streb</strong><br />
Construction<br />
Congratulations<br />
on 50 Years of<br />
Success!<br />
Manatt’s, inc.<br />
would like to<br />
congratulate<br />
<strong>Streb</strong><br />
Construction<br />
on 50 years<br />
of success!<br />
www.hahnrmg.com<br />
800-877-1258<br />
www.manatts.com<br />
1775 Old 6 Rd<br />
Brooklyn, IA 52211
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Rexcon Mobile Plant set<br />
up on site at the Eastern<br />
Iowa Airport<br />
4 FROM PAGE 6<br />
“In 1983, there were only 13 building<br />
permits taken out in all of Iowa City,”<br />
said Steve, who received a business degree<br />
from Loras College. “Needless to<br />
say, there wasn’t a whole lot going on in<br />
the building industry.”<br />
adjust to the<br />
times<br />
Needing to adjust to the<br />
times, <strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
began focusing on concrete<br />
work, beginning<br />
with paving jobs in subdivisions.<br />
The economic<br />
recession of 2008 also forced a change,<br />
but this time in the types of jobs <strong>Streb</strong><br />
Construction pursued.<br />
In the past decades, they haven’t looked<br />
back, with the business now firmly dedicated<br />
to concrete paving, primarily in<br />
the Corridor as well as other Eastern<br />
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From our Family to Yours…<br />
It’s been great<br />
working with you<br />
the past 50 years!<br />
Congratulations<br />
and to many more!
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4 FROM PAGE 7<br />
Iowa communities, working on commercial parking lots, city<br />
streets, interstates, county roads, airports and subdivisions.<br />
The ability to adapt has continued, with the addition of GPS<br />
technology in recent years to provide more accurate work.<br />
The technology replaces a previous method of guiding paving<br />
machines with string, Steve said.<br />
Rather than buy a new machine, the GPS system was retrofitted<br />
on a slipform concrete paver, he noted, allowing the machine<br />
to continue its use, but with more accuracy and costsavings.<br />
Plaques recognizing numerous honors the company has been<br />
awarded line the walls of the office in Iowa City, including excellence<br />
awards from the Iowa Concrete Paving Association and<br />
Iowa Department of Transportation.<br />
Plant Managers, Steve Donovan<br />
and Jeffrey Mohr<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction is a member of the Associated General<br />
Contractors of Iowa, the Associated General Contractors of<br />
America, the Iowa Concrete Paving Association, in which<br />
Steve served as president in 2009 and 2012, the American<br />
Concrete Paving Association and the Iowa City Area Chamber<br />
of Commerce.<br />
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Congratulations from your friends at<br />
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Co n gr atu l ati o n s<br />
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<strong>Streb</strong> Construction and E & F Paving<br />
on 50 Years of Success!<br />
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50<br />
Congratulations to<br />
STREB CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC.<br />
on celebrating 50 years of<br />
outstanding business!<br />
From everyone at Altorfer Inc.
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Motor Grader<br />
equipped with GPS<br />
Congratulations,<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction!<br />
BEST WISHES STREB CONSTRUCTION ON YOUR CONTINUED SUCCESS<br />
Wishing you continued success during your next 50!<br />
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Best Wishes<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
On Another<br />
50 Years!<br />
Ready Mix<br />
(319) 754-4747<br />
www.idealrm.com<br />
Serving Southeast Iowa
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4 FROM PAGE 8<br />
Many of <strong>Streb</strong> Construction’s 75 employees have been with<br />
the company for numerous years, including recent retiree,<br />
Gary Evans. “He remembers me being born,” said Steve, who<br />
is now 44.<br />
During its anniversary year, the company is moving to a new<br />
location just outside of Coralville, with the goal to be in the<br />
new office and shop building before the end of <strong>2015</strong>.<br />
Iowa’s new 10 cents<br />
per gallon gas tax<br />
increase, to be used<br />
for roads and bridges,<br />
bodes well for the<br />
industry in general.<br />
As for the future,<br />
Iowa’s new<br />
10 cents per<br />
gallon gas tax<br />
increase, to be<br />
used for roads<br />
and bridges,<br />
bodes well for<br />
the industry in<br />
general, Steve<br />
said.<br />
“It’s strong in<br />
our market right now,” he said. “We’re growing as we can and<br />
trying to make the smartest decisions possible.”<br />
Office ladies: (left to right) Chrissy Middle, Office Manager,<br />
Jenna Wolfe, Bookkeeper and Susan Lee, Bookkeeper<br />
50 Years!<br />
Congratulations!<br />
Congratulations and Continued Success!<br />
630 51st Street, Marion • (319) 377-5064 • hardscapesolutions.net<br />
Residential • Commercial • Grading • Excavation<br />
Underground Utilities • Heavy Hauling • Trucking<br />
305 44th St, Marion, Iowa 52302<br />
(319) 377-3179<br />
www.rathjeconstruction.com<br />
Congratulations To<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
On Celebrating Your<br />
50th Anniversary
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STREB CONSTRUCTION<br />
TIMELINE<br />
1983:<br />
Dave <strong>Streb</strong> joins full-time<br />
as vice president; focus<br />
switched to concrete<br />
“In 1983, there were only 13<br />
building permits taken out in<br />
all of Iowa City.”<br />
Left to right: Dave <strong>Streb</strong>, Theresa<br />
Clifton, Jim Stockman and Al <strong>Streb</strong><br />
1965<br />
1965:<br />
Incorporated<br />
1990:<br />
Bought first<br />
slipform paver<br />
Congratulations<br />
on 50 years!<br />
congrats<br />
streb<br />
construction<br />
on 50<br />
great<br />
years!<br />
1967 Baker Ave, West Branch<br />
319-643-7135<br />
www.lynchsexcavating.com<br />
Congratulations to <strong>Streb</strong> for<br />
50 years of outstanding service!<br />
For all your commercial and residential needs<br />
www.seydelconstruction.com<br />
319-354-2999<br />
Gierke Robinson Company<br />
CONSTRUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SINCE 1919<br />
Gierke Robinson Specializes in:<br />
• Concrete equipment and supplies to prepare, place, finish, saw and cure concrete<br />
• Pumps and generators • Hydraulics<br />
1107 South Riverside Drive Iowa City, IA 52246 319-358-5860
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1992:<br />
Steve <strong>Streb</strong> joins<br />
full-time<br />
2008:<br />
Flood; President Bush<br />
visits the <strong>Streb</strong> office<br />
Flood of 2008, visit by President Bush to<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Office and Shop<br />
2005:<br />
Bought first central<br />
mix concrete plant<br />
Pictured in the background<br />
is the floodwall built by<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> employees and many,<br />
many volunteers.<br />
<strong>2015</strong>:<br />
50-year<br />
anniversary<br />
YEARS!<br />
1993:<br />
Flood<br />
2010:<br />
Bought E & F Paving<br />
in Cedar Rapids<br />
<strong>2015</strong><br />
2012:<br />
Added second central mix<br />
mobile concrete plant; added<br />
GPS technology<br />
Proud to have served<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction Company<br />
since 1995 and Eastern Iowa<br />
clients since 1912.<br />
- Bob Hammerberg<br />
Congratulations<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
On An Exceptional<br />
50 Years in Business<br />
“We think of you First.”<br />
www.continentalcement.com<br />
4101 Glass Rd. NE Cedar Rapids<br />
(319) 393-5262 www.firstiowa.com
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E & F PAVING COMPANY<br />
E & F Paving Company, LLC, started out as E & F Cement and<br />
Asphaltic Concrete Inc., in 1964, making it slightly older than<br />
<strong>Streb</strong>’s, but navigating a similar pathway of a family business<br />
adapting to the times.<br />
family business<br />
In this case, three families and two<br />
generations have been a part of the<br />
company’s continuity.<br />
General Manager Jim Fitzpatrick, the son of co-founder Leo<br />
Fitzpatrick, just retired this year after 50 years in the business.<br />
His cousin, Mike Fitzpatrick, son of co-founder Ed Fitzpatrick,<br />
had previously retired, and Rick Eggleston, son of co-founder<br />
Jack Eggleston, remains with the company as a hands-on field<br />
superintendent after buying out the other co-owners in 2000.<br />
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Ed Fitzpatrick, one of<br />
the original owners<br />
Congratulations<br />
on 50 years<br />
of serving the Corridor!<br />
Congratulations<br />
on 50 years…<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction and E&F Paving<br />
351-6452<br />
1233 Gilbert Court | Iowa City<br />
www.advancedelectrical.com<br />
CONSTRUCTION CO. INC.<br />
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404<br />
(319) 365-8669<br />
Also Celebrating 50 Years!<br />
Let Us Be Your Worry-Free Contractor<br />
Visit us on the web!<br />
daveschmittconstruction.com<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction and E & F Paving<br />
...on celebrating 50 years of success!<br />
We look forward to<br />
many more years<br />
of working together!
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Paving Ushers Ridge, <strong>2015</strong><br />
1.5 million cubic yards of concrete<br />
has been poured since E & F began, growing from 4,000<br />
cubic yards annually to more than 50,000 per year<br />
Congratulations,<br />
E&F Paving Company on 50 years.<br />
From your friends at Skogman Carlson Insurance and Skogman Homes.<br />
411 1st Avenue SE<br />
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401<br />
www.SkogmanHomes.com<br />
3700 1st Ave NE<br />
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402<br />
www.SkogmanIns.com
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Paving in Robins, 2013<br />
4 FROM PAGE 14<br />
While Rick Eggleston sold the company to <strong>Streb</strong>’s<br />
in 2010, E & F Paving continues with 25 employees<br />
in its Cedar Rapids office, performing similar<br />
types of work as <strong>Streb</strong>’s, but with a focus on Linn<br />
County.<br />
Rick said his father originally joined forces with<br />
the Fitzpatrick brothers, who were streets department<br />
employees knowledgeable about concrete.<br />
Ed and Leo, along with their brothers, Irving,<br />
Tom and Don, owned Fitzpatrick Concrete in the<br />
1950s.<br />
Both of the Fitzpatrick brothers had fought in<br />
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50 Years!<br />
Congratulations!<br />
Congratulations and Continued Success!<br />
630 51st Street, Marion • (319) 377-5064 • hardscapesolutions.net<br />
Residential • Commercial • Grading • Excavation<br />
Underground Utilities • Heavy Hauling • Trucking<br />
305 44th St, Marion, Iowa 52302<br />
(319) 377-3179<br />
www.rathjeconstruction.com<br />
Congratulations To<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
On Celebrating Your<br />
50th Anniversary
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<strong>Streb</strong><br />
Construction<br />
4 FROM PAGE 16<br />
World War II and Jack Eggleston joined the Marines at age 17,<br />
just as the war was ending. He later served as Streets Commissioner<br />
in Cedar Rapids in the early 1960s.<br />
Don Fitzpatrick was Assistant Vice President and office manager<br />
for the company.<br />
Times have changed since the labor-intensive work that Rick recalls<br />
when starting with the company as a high school junior.<br />
“My first job was throwing a pile of dirt into a dump truck with a<br />
shovel,” he vividly recalls.<br />
The work still involves physical labor, but is more efficient, so it<br />
can be done with fewer workers. Still, several employees made<br />
a career with E & F. Bob Knake was one of the first employees,<br />
who was with the company from its inception. “He was a very<br />
valuable employee for over 30 years,” Rick said.<br />
So many good people<br />
we have worked with.<br />
Long-time employees,<br />
Marilyn Mittan and<br />
Tom Meyer<br />
Others, such as<br />
Harvey Hop, were<br />
teachers who<br />
worked summers<br />
with the company,<br />
and many people to this day tell his father, now living in Hiawatha,<br />
that they were able to pay their way through college by working for<br />
the paving company.<br />
Those workers have gone on to become lawyers, doctors, teachers<br />
and more, Rick said. The company’s relationship with developers<br />
and others in the city has been equally exceptional, he added.<br />
“There are so many good people we have worked with,” he said.<br />
While it’s impossible to calculate how many jobs the company has<br />
completed in the past 50 years, Rick said more than 1.5 million cubic<br />
yards of concrete has been poured since E & F began, growing<br />
from 4,000 cubic yards annually to more than 50,000 per year.<br />
While some of the technology has changed and the land around<br />
the company’s office in southwest Cedar Rapids has developed<br />
dramatically from 1970, when they first moved to the site, they are<br />
proud that their name has carried on.<br />
Congratulations<br />
on 50 years in<br />
business!<br />
We appreciate your<br />
loyalty and trust<br />
throughout the<br />
years.<br />
MidWestOne.com<br />
(319) 356-5800<br />
Coralville • Iowa City • North Liberty<br />
Member FDIC
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E & F PAVING COMPANY LLC<br />
TIMELINE<br />
Leo Fitzpatrick,<br />
one of the<br />
original owners<br />
1976:<br />
First $1,000,000<br />
contract<br />
1964<br />
1964:<br />
April 1st, first day<br />
of business<br />
Became member<br />
of Iowa Concrete<br />
Paving<br />
Association<br />
Early days grading<br />
for paving<br />
Updated front of<br />
building in the 1980’s<br />
Congratulations on<br />
your 50th Anniversary!<br />
High Properties is proud to have partnered with <strong>Streb</strong> Construction<br />
Company on projects in Linn, Johnson & Black Hawk counties.<br />
Congratulations and Thank You<br />
FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION<br />
TO EASTERN IOWA<br />
Eastern Iowa’s Premier Design Build Contractor<br />
www.highpm.com 319.363.3900<br />
Proudly serving Eastern Iowa’s housing needs since 1988<br />
Visit us online at<br />
www.hunter-companies.com
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“My first job was throwing<br />
a pile of dirt into a dump<br />
truck with a shovel.”<br />
2000:<br />
Rick Eggleston buys E & F<br />
from the co-owners<br />
1984:<br />
Parking lot and apron<br />
paving on new Cedar<br />
Rapids Airport<br />
1988:<br />
Reconstruction of<br />
Williams Boulevard<br />
and 16th Avenue<br />
Former owners,<br />
Rick Eggleston and<br />
Jim Fitzpatrick<br />
YEARS!<br />
1985:<br />
First slipform<br />
paver<br />
2010:<br />
E & F Paving is sold<br />
<strong>2015</strong><br />
40<br />
years<br />
1975-<strong>2015</strong><br />
We congratulate<br />
<strong>Streb</strong> Construction and E&F Paving<br />
on 50 successful years.<br />
MMS Consultants, Inc.<br />
Civil engineering | Surveying<br />
319.351.8282 | mmsconsultants.net<br />
Best Wishes<br />
For Your<br />
Continued Success!<br />
Thanks<br />
for all your support!<br />
from your friends at<br />
The River Products<br />
Company, Inc.<br />
P O Box 2120<br />
Iowa City, IA 52244-2120<br />
(319) 338-1184<br />
Petroleum Services<br />
Company, LLC<br />
P O Box 5716<br />
Coralville, IA 52241-0716<br />
(319) 351-6498<br />
Shamrock Construction<br />
Company, LLC<br />
P O Box 5185<br />
Coralville, IA 52241-0185<br />
(319)354-6969<br />
<strong>Streb</strong><br />
Construction Company Inc.<br />
IOWA CITY, IA<br />
Rock Technology<br />
P O Box 5765<br />
Coralville, IA 52241<br />
(319) 338-5475
20 <strong>Streb</strong> Construction 1965 - <strong>2015</strong><br />
Congratulations to E&F Paving!<br />
We are proud to be your supplier of choice.<br />
1340 Hawkeye Dr | Hiawatha | 319-395-7061<br />
309 1 st Ave | Coralville | 319-354-5440
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