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Tarrant County College District said it chose three leading North Texas construction firms to lead the redevelopment of its Southeast Fort Worth campus: Fort Worth’s Byrne Construction Services and Potere Construction and Dallas’ Hunt Construction Group.
The firms "demonstrated a particular commitment to the local community and to ensuring diversity and inclusion throughout all stages of the project," Tarrant County College said in a release. "Under the contract, the firms will manage the construction of new building additions as well as the full renovation of existing structures."
"The Tarrant County MWBE construction and subcontractor community is the ultimate award winner" represented by the joint venture, Andre McEwing, Tarrant County College supplier diversity manager, said.
"All three firms have developed strategies for expanding diversity and inclusion during the TCCD project, including in subcontracting, and both preconstruction and construction phases," TCC said.
Byrne and Potere are certified as Historically Underutilized Businesses.
“When we supported the last Tarrant County College District bond election, I addressed the board of trustees and espoused the need for practicing 'buy local,' which naturally suggests the concepts of diversity and inclusion," Devoyd Jennings, Fort Worth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, said in the release. "This contracting arrangement goes further because it supports equity through this joint venture agreement."
"Byrne and Potere are homegrown talent that serve as inspirational examples of hard work, integrity, and collaborative spirit," Anette Landeros, president and CEO of the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said. "These two MWBEs are rising to new levels of success and have committed to bringing the whole community with them.”
Byrne, Potere and Hunt have successfully completed hundreds of similar education projects throughout the state. Hunt has run 74 higher education projects over the past decade, and over 44% of its annual project volume is in higher education. Byrne built TCCD’s SE Campus’s original building in the mid 1990s and its recently completed Learning Commons Project, as well as multiple other projects throughout the College District.
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