Partners
Your brand took years to build, and the building that carries it will stand in public for forty more. So we keep a short list of manufacturers, architects and developers we will put our own name beside. The companies on this page are the reason that list stays short.
Who we build for
National carriers, manufacturers, colleges and the cities we live in. Most of the names below hired us more than once, which is the only endorsement in this business worth printing.
BlueScope
BNSF Railway
Butler Manufacturing
R+L Carriers
Northrop Grumman
UPS
SAIA LTL Freight
Swire Coca-Cola
Johnson Controls
SPD
Coastal Community Bank
Seatown Veterinary
Willow & Jim's
Antelope Valley College
Los Angeles County
City of Arlington
City of Marysville
City of Lake Stevens
City of Lancaster
City of PalmdaleStrategic partners
These are not logos on a wall. Each one sits inside how a Coast job actually gets designed, financed and built, and each one is on the hook for their part of it the same way we are on the hook for ours.
Pre-engineered steel, and nobody has been at it longer
Butler pioneered the metal building industry and has spent more than a century refining it. As a Butler Builder, Coast puts up a structural system that is engineered, cut and shipped to the drawing, which takes weeks of field fabrication off the schedule and puts a manufacturer's warranty behind the shell.
Design that starts where the budget is
Over 70 years of combined design and construction experience, and the construction half is the part that matters: Red Oak draws buildings that can be built for the number. Approachable, collaborative, and unwilling to treat a tight budget as a reason to stop caring what the building looks like.
The deal has to pencil before anyone draws it
GBI sources projects, works its capital partners, and brings operational and design thinking to how a building will actually be used once the ribbon is cut. When an owner needs the numbers to work before there is anything to price, this is the table it gets worked out at.
The site itself, before the question is what goes on it
An entrepreneurial investment company with deep commercial real estate knowledge and a long memory of this market. GIP is who an owner talks to about land, zoning and what a parcel is really worth, which is a conversation that belongs before the drawings, not after.
What the partnership builds
The honest way to judge a partner list is to look at what came out of it. Both of these are Butler systems, both are in Arlington, and both owners came back.
A 40,000 square foot terminal with 4,000 feet of office, sixty bay doors, a 10,000 foot maintenance shop with two full-size service pits, and a fuel station with two pump islands. It handles R+L's north Seattle freight and their cross-border runs into Canada. The detailing standards we set here became the model for R+L's later facilities, which is why we keep getting invited to bid them.
Coast was general contractor on a 39,260 square foot Butler building with an MR24 roof, on a 4.5 acre lot, civil utilities and grading included. Concrete paneling, vertical steel siding and heavy timber outside. Inside, a two-story foyer with a hand-crafted steel and timber staircase. Proof that an industrial shell does not have to look like one.
Trade partners
We self-perform the critical path, but no general contractor builds a job alone. The subcontractors who work with us get paid on time, get the drawings early, and get told the truth about the schedule. If that is how you run your crew, we want your number.
Getting in touch
We do not add many names to this page. If you have a building to put up, tell us the site, the size and when it has to open, and you will get a straight answer from the people who would run the job.
