Hoffman Construction Company
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Matthew Knight Arena built by Hoffman Construction
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| Privately held company | |
| Industry |
Heavy construction Engineering Project Management |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Founder | Lee Hawley Hoffman |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
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Area served
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Pacific Northwest |
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Key people
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Wayne Drinkward, President, CEO |
| Products | Construction contracting |
| Revenue | US$1.8 billion (2013) |
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Number of employees
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504 (2012) |
| Website | hoffmancorp.com |
Hoffman Construction Company is a privately held construction firm based in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Founded in 1922, it is the largest construction company in Oregon, and the 33rd largest in the United States with $1.8 billion in revenues as of 2014. Hoffman is also the largest private company in the Portland area.
Lee Hoffman (born May 15, 1850) moved to Portland in the 1870s with his family and worked constructing bridges and other projects until his death, including the Bull Run pipeline. After his accidental death on July 21, 1895, his wife Julia removed to Boston, Massachusetts, with their children, including Lee Hawley Hoffman. Lee Hawley entered Harvard College in 1902, but the family returned to Oregon partly in 1903. Lee Hawley graduated with a degree in architecture from Harvard in 1906, and the family returned to Portland that year, living in their home on NW 23rd Street.
The Hoffmans still owned various real estate in Portland due to the success of Lee Hoffman’s earlier construction businesses, and they were turned into the family owned Wauna Land Company in 1903. Lee Hawley began working for Morris H. Whitehouse’s architectural firm in 1908, with the firm later also consisting of Edgar M. Lazarus and J. André Fouilhoux. Hoffman then married Caroline Couch Burns on June 9, 1910. Over time, Hoffman began to focus more on projects for Wauna Land Company and less on his architectural work, leaving the firm by 1917. He started working as a contractor in 1919, and by the end of 1921 had the firm of Hoffman & Rasmussen. The current company was founded in 1922 by Hoffman.
The company started out building primarily apartment buildings and industrial structures in Portland, and had grown to more than 400 employees by 1928. One of the company’s first prominent projects was building the Terminal Sales Building in 1926. The next year Hoffman completed the Public Services Building, which was the tallest building in the city upon completion. That year they also built the new Heathman Hotel, the Portland Theater, and an office building all on the same block on Broadway in downtown Portland. In 1928, Hoffman constructed the 12-story Buyer’s Building (now Loyalty Building) in just over six months.
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