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Thirty-five years ago, Ames Construction was preparing to embark on a make-or-break project.

When a mining client wanted a single-source contractor that could self-perform all project activities, Ames Construction’s Mark Brennan and Les Steffes responded by forming an aggregates processing team in 1989.

Ames Construction enters rail transit market with first $1 billion design-build commuter rail project: RTD Eagle P3 project in Colorado.

Twenty years ago, Zumbro River Constructors joint venture (Ames Construction, Fluor and Edward Kraemer and Sons) were wrapping up the first year of the TH-52 Rochester Design-Build project, better known as ROC 52.

Twenty years ago, the Montana Grizzlies kicked off the 2003 football season in a newly expanded Washington-Grizzly Stadium at the University of Montana in Missoula. From April through August of that year, Ames Construction performed a fast-paced and schedule-critical stadium expansion project that added 4,100 seats.

30 years ago, Ames Construction crews were in the early stages of the Navajo Bridge Project near Marble Canyon, Arizona.

When Ames Construction moved its corporate headquarters and Midwest regional offices into their new home in Burnsville in 2020, a historic piece of equipment found a new home as well.