Draft:Goodfellow Bros.

Goodfellow Bros. is an American family-owned heavy-civil construction company based in Wenatchee, Washington. Founded more than 100 years ago, it is now led by the fourth generation of the company’s founding family members with offices in Washington, California, Oregon and Hawaii.

History
After serving in World War I as engineers, James Burwell Goodfellow, John Archibald Goodfellow, and George Herbert Goodfellow formed a partnership to establish Goodfellow Bros. in Wenatchee, Washington in 1921. The company’s first job was as a subcontractor building a road up the Swakane Canyon.

Over the next decades, the company built critical infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest such as farm-to-market roads, highways, access over mountain passes, dams, fish hatcheries and irrigation. On January 1, 1929, the brothers filed Goodfellow Bros.’ articles of incorporation.

In 1929 the Washington State Highways Department hired Goodfellow Bros. to complete the Vantage, Washington ferry excavation (historic photo), the company’s largest rock job to date. That same year, the company worked on original foundations and railroad and highway relocations for the Rock Island Dam project, the first dam on the Columbia River. Goodfellow Bros. would continue to complete various projects on the dam for the next 40 years, until the 1970s.

In 1934, Goodfellow Bros. worked on the first excavation of the Grand Coulee Dam, moving two million cubic yards on the west side of the Columbia River.

In 1938, the company began building the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery. Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery was the largest fish hatchery in the world at the time.

During the 1940s, ‘50s and 60s, the company built major stretches of the interstate highway system and roadways in the Northwest including sections of Stevens Pass Highway, the Rocky Reach highway relocation (U.S. Route 97 Alternate), 50 miles of the North Cascades Highway (previously called the North Cross Highway), as well as road work in Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Utah. Sometimes the company was rebuilding roads it had built with different technology decades earlier.

In 1972 the company began working in Kihei, Maui on a wastewater treatment plant through a construction arm of Boeing in existence then, and has worked in the Hawaiian islands ever since.

Over the next decades, the company worked on such projects as the Piilani Highway Project (Hawaii Route 31), a Bureau of Reclamation project that involved constructing more than 50 miles of irrigation pipe servicing 7,000 acres of orchards from Bonaparte to Tonasket to Past Ellisforde, and resorts and golf courses in Hawaii, expanding to Oregon with jobs like repairing large stretches of Oregon Route 224 in the 1990s.

In 2011, third generation Steve Goodfellow stepped down as president and his son, fourth-generation Chad Goodfellow became the company’s next president. Steve Goodfellow continued on in the role of CEO.

In 2012, the company expanded operations in Northern California by acquiring Top Grade construction.

In 2017, the company moved its Wenatchee office to the historic Dore building, after completing renovations.

In 2017, the company received permission to develop the "Three Fingers" on Lake Chelan after more than 50 years of legal questions that went all the way to the Washington Supreme Court regarding the landmarks originally created by fill from Goodfellow Bros. highway work before 1969.

In 2018, Chad Goodfellow was appointed CEO of Goodfellow Bros. Steve Goodfellow continued as chairman of the board of directors.

Corporate identity
Goodfellow Bros.' mission is to be the contractor of choice which translates into a commitment to its people, clients and communities, values that go back to its founders. As a Great Place to Work certified company, 96% of Goodfellow Bros. employees say it's a "great place to work," in the areas of feeling welcome, pride in the work, endorsing the business to others, and people caring about each other. Goodfellow Bros. received the 2019 Economic Vitality Award from the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation for its purchase and renovation of the historic Dore Building for its corporate office. The Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce gave Goodfellow Bros. it's 2021 Business of the Year Award, and named the company the Grand Marshall of the 2022 Apple Blossom Festival.

Routine emergency response efforts
In the markets where it operates, the company is routinely called on to aid in emergency response because of its extensive equipment and tankers. In 2023 the company provided firefighting, humanitarian, restoration and rebuilding support on the Maui wildfires. Goodfellow Bros. regularly assists on seasonal brush fires in Hawaii. In 2021 the company collaborated with firefighters to contain a 200 acre Hawaii Island brush fire. In 2017, the company assisted on a fire in Maui. In 2003, Goodfellow Bros. helped fight a brush fire in Wailuku.

In 2018, the company constructed an emergency evacuation route for residents during the Kilauea volcano eruptions on Hawaii’s Big Island. In 2014, Goodfellow Bros. helped open the Chain of Craters Road for emergency access

In 2018, Goodfellow Bros. provided debris cleanup and recovery service to the Camp Fire (2018) located in Paradise, California – the state’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire. The company also contributed to a fund to rebuild the Honey Run Covered Bridge as a symbol of hope for the community.

Philanthropy efforts
In 2022, Goodfellow Bros. donated more than $300,000 to Wenatchee, Chelan, Ellensburg and Moses Lake downtown organizations. The company donated a total of $136,000 to 25 nonprofit organizations based in Washington, Hawaii, California and Oregon in 2021 in honor of its centennial.

Other donations include supporting the Ohana Maui Youth Foundation,  supporting Maui wildfire victims by donating to the Maui Strong Fund at the Hawai‘i Community Foundation, and donations to the Taylor Family Foundation in California.

Goodfellow Bros. employees regularly participate in efforts such as an annual charity golf classic in Wenatchee with proceeds going to a different charity every year, Golf for Hope in Folsom, California, Make-a-Wish in Hawaii, providing free plants for a school garden program in Maui, and more. The company also has an annual matching program of up to $500 for every employee for their charitable contributions.

Safety and Operations
The company focuses on creating a culture of safety. Goodfellow Bros. California division received the 2021 UCON R.E.A.L Safety Wared United Contractors Magazine in the 500,000 – 1,000,000-man hours category. The company received the 2021 and 2022 GCA Safety Awards, Best in Category and Zero Incident Rate from the General Contractors Association of Hawaii.

In Engineering News-Record (ENR) 2023 Top 400 Contractors Sourcebook, Goodfellow Bros. is ranked 145th overall by revenue and new contracts.

Recent notable projects
Goodfellow Bros. has 12 U.S. offices and averages 263 projects per year. Projects today include confidential Silicon Valley high-tech campuses, alternative energy projects including solar and wind farms, restoration projects like the Kootenai River Restoration, entertainment arenas, and emergency response projects like the Butte County Camp Fire Clean up. Major recent projects include Chase Center Sports and Entertainment Arena in San Francisco,solar farm construction in Hawaii, Queen Ka’ahumanu Highway Widening, on the Big Island, Elephant Lands project at the Oregon Zoo, Sellwood Bridge in Oregon, Ten Trails Master Planned Community in Covington, WA, ilani Casino in Ridgefield, WA as well as notable sitework projects for confidential high-tech clients in Redmond, WA, Bay Area, CA and Silicon Valley, CA. They also completed Levi's Stadium, home of the 49ers.

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