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Local favorite: Serving residential customers
An Oregon producer takes care of his residential customers, and a new wheel loader helps save on fuel costs. When site development contractor John Malnerich couldn’t buy enough crushed rock for his projects, he did what most people in his situation would not do: He got into the quarry business. A decade later, in order to produce material that was up to state specifications, he moved down the road 10 miles and purchased a larger quarry with a better grade of rock. Malnerich, who owns Westside Rock in Hillsboro, Ore., about 25 miles west of Portland, turned his frustration over a shortage of rock into a successful quarry operation that today has a well-earned reputation for exceptional service to an often-overlooked constituency – homeowners. “We were doing prep work for large sub-divisions and big commercial building sites in the mid-1990s,” he says, “and were stymied by the lack of available rock. The start of light rail, the construction needs of firms such as Nike and Intel, and the closing of… Keep Reading
