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We are Asian American company and 8 year in business, 4th year hold MBE & WBE certificate, member of OAME, regularly bid private and public project and regularly in OAME meetings.  We have been subcontractor with Skanska and Seabold construciton.  We invested a lot to become what we are today.

But no matter how experience we became and high professional level we hold up, we still can't get 99% of job these 2 years due to the changes:   the most GCs transfered the management for the line of our work, slab stone interior surface to 2nd tier which is casework or millwork company, and these 2nd tier companies have no interest to work with us as GCs do, that's we felt, this change already put us out off business almost. 

Not just economy down, but the industry managerment changes that out of our reached killed us almost.

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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