In 1985, Greg Walton founded Walton Construction Company, a privately owned construction company, in
Kansas City, Missouri. Walton's first major project in Kansas City, MO was the
Bartle Hall Convention Center
The Kansas City Convention Center, originally Bartle Hall Convention Center or Bartle Hall, is a major convention center in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It was named for Harold Roe Bartle, a prominent, two-term mayor of Kansas City in t ...
(completed in 1994, total construction cost was $91.7 million). Within the following two decades, Walton became one of the top 100 general contractors in the United States, according to
Engineering News Record
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, with annual revenue exceeding $800 million. Among the major projects Walton Construction has worked on are the Legends at Village West in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and the Zona Rosa mixed use development, along with many others. Along with having its headquarters in Kansas City, Walton Construction held divisional offices in several U.S. cities including:
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Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County ...
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Shreveport, Louisiana
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Springfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. The city's population was 169,176 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which had an estimat ...
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St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
After its 25th anniversary, the corporate leadership structure of Walton Construction changed. William G. Petty ("Bill") took over as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and then moved the headquarters from Kansas City to New Orleans in mid-2010. Petty also maintained its divisional office in New Orleans that focused upon large federal and military construction projects throughout the U.S. The company eventually changed the name from Walton Construction Company to WCC Companies after Petty sold certain assets to Core Construction, based out of Phoenix, Arizona.
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In August 2012, Petty, who still owns the majority of WCC, formed The WGP Companies: WGP Associates, LLC (a management consulting firm) and WGP Construction, LLC (a general contractor). The WGP Companies specializes in federal construction contracting, complex surety-default projects, and disaster recovery projects. The companies eadquartered in New Orleans, Louisianaoperate within the Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) performing work in Christchurch, New Zealand, Manila, Philippines, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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External links
CORE Construction
References
Companies based in Kansas City, Missouri
Companies based in New Orleans
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
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