Cornerstone Construction Group

Coordinates: 30°19′21″N 81°40′11″W / 30.3224°N 81.6697°W / 30.3224; -81.6697

Cornerstone Construction Group
Private
Industry Construction
Founded In Business since 1987, Incorporated 2001
Headquarters Redondo Beach, California, USA
Key people
 Linda Serna Braden, CEO
Vic Braden, V.P., Chief Operations Officer
Victor (V.J.) Braden, Project Manager/Estimator
Products Specializing in health care facility construction,design-build, project planning, project development
Website Official website

Cornerstone Construction Group is a construction, design and consulting business based in Redondo Beach, California. The firm specializes in Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) projects for medical centers in Southern California.

Operations

Cornerstone Construction performs work in the following industry segments:

Cornerstone Construction opened in 1985 to provide construction services to the healthcare industry. 80 percent of their business comes from the hospital market and the rest from commercial and industrial sources. In 2006, they joined “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” to help make a Redondo Beach home ADA compliant for Kristina Ripatti – a LAPD officer who was shot and paralyzed while on duty.[1]

During the 2008 recession, the owners had to liquidate their savings to keep the doors open at their Redondo Beach company, Cornerstone Construction Group. They laid off 15 workers, dropping to just nine employees by 2011. Sales dropped from $10 million to $2 million in one year. In 2012, and Braden was able to rehire four of the people he let go and brought on six new workers, including electricians, a framer, and a foreman. One reason the company has done well: It remodels and renovates hospitals. “That industry has been growing tremendously, leaps and bounds, and we are doing everything we can to stay abreast of the changes,” Braden said.[2]


Community Service

Kristina and Tim Ripatti Home. Completed by Cornerstone Construction on ABC's Extreme Home Makeover

In 2006 Cornerstone Construction Group led a team of 3000 volunteer trade workers as well as unskilled workers in a $1.2 million project for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition[3] The project built a 3,800 square foot home,[4][5] fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The home was built for Kristina Ripattie, an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, shot in the line of duty and paralyzed.[6]

In 2009 Cornerstone Construction Group worked to build Cheryl Green community Center to combat gang violence.[7] The project was named after Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old girl who was killed allegedly because of her race.[8] The center was donated to the Boys & Girls Club Harbor Gateway/Torrance.

In 2010 Cornerstone Construction, with community partner Sharefest, completed restoration of the Morell House,[9] one of the few remaining historic Victorian homes remaining in Redondo Beach. The house received over $800,000 worth of repairs, including a new foundation, a new roof, new plumbing and electrical. Volunteers spent thousands of hours restoring the home, according to the Redondo Beach Historical Society.[10]

In 2011 Cornerstone Construction group partnered again with Sharefest, and residents of San Pedro, California, to install a scoreboard in the baseball and softball fields at the San Pedro High School.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Hixon, Michael. "Cornerstone Construction Celebrates 30 Years". The Beach Reporter. Town News. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs-california-may-20160616-snap-story.html
  3. ↑ http://lapdblog.typepad.com/lapd_blog/2006/10/extreme_makeove.html
  4. ↑ Mother and Daughter Team Take it to the Extreme,South Bay Woman March/April 2007
  5. ↑ Crews Went to the Extreme for Ripatti's New Home, Daily Breeze, Dec. 10, 2006
  6. ↑ ABC, Extreme Makeover, episode 409 - Ripatti family. Accessed 1 August 2014
  7. ↑ http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20090615/harbor-gateway-youth-center-honoring-cheryl-green-opens
  8. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/18/local/me-harbor-gateway18
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ Redondo Beach Historical Society
  11. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2011/05/12/LA01433
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