The week of September 2, team members from our Jacksonville Business Units gave back to their community, sponsoring, participating in, and donating to two extraordinary events: the St. Augustine Tunnel to Towers 5K and the DBIA Clay Shoot, which supported local college students. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation honors American heroes by providing mortgage-free homes [...]
On September 12, Wharton-Smith and Lake County Schools joined in celebrating all of the subcontractors and craftsmen who have been building the new Minneola “FF” K8 Area Relief Campus at the Topping Out Ceremony. See photos. Guests were treated to a delicious lunch and received commemorative t-shirts and an entry into a raffle, which included prizes [...]
This week, on the 23rd anniversary of September 11, several Wharton-Smith business units donated lunch to fire stations across the southeast United States to give back and serve those who continue to keep our communities safe. This anniversary reminds us of one of the most tragic events this country has ever seen. Wharton-Smith takes pride [...]
Over a month-long period, the Wharton-Smith corporate office hosted a school supply drive to benefit Tools 4 Seminole Schools, a Foundation for Seminole County Public Schools program. Tools 4 Seminole Schools provides teachers and administrators with free school supplies, backpacks, and more for their classrooms, schools, and students in need. About 50% of students in [...]
For the second year in a row, Senior Operations Coordinator Denise Hatton has taken the lead in coordinating a massively successful school supply drive. This year, bringing together the Wharton-Smith teams at The Villages Town Center and Bay Laurel North Water Reclamation projects to support the students and teachers at Dunnellon Elementary School in Marion [...]
On July 30, Wharton-Smith joined Brevard Public Schools, Schenkel Shultz, members of the Viera community, and students and staff of the newly built Viera Middle School to officially cut the ribbon and open the school before the new school year began. See photos. Viera Middle School is the first middle school to be built in Brevard [...]
On July 24, to celebrate the early substantial completion of the Bates Ave Waste Water Treatment Plant Expansion in Eustis, Wharton-Smith invited the City of Eustis Public Utilities department and team members from Wright-Pierce Engineering to a barbecue luncheon catered by Mission BBQ. See photos. The project moved swiftly and efficiently, finishing four months ahead [...]
On July 3, Wharton-Smith hosted a subcontractor appreciation luncheon at the City of DeLand Utilities Administration Building, a brand new, hardened facility that will replace the current administration building located within the public works campus. Subcontractors were treated to project t-shirts and a delicious catered lunch by Brian’s Bar-B-Q, a local DeLand restaurant. See photos. “We [...]
On June 19, representatives and citizens from the City of Leesburg, the Community Development Corp. of Leesburg (CDC), and Wharton-Smith joined to celebrate the ribbon cutting of Pine Street. See photos. Pine Street historically featured many black-owned businesses, which, over time, witnessed the area start to decline. The City of Leesburg and the surrounding community joined [...]
On June 13, Wharton-Smith celebrated the topping out for the School District of Osceola County’s Transportation East Facility project with partners and subcontractors. Topping out ceremonies, which date back to the ancient Scandinavians, symbolize the completion of a construction project's structural phase. See photos. Guests at the event received Wharton-Smith t-shirts and take-home swag and entered [...]
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