Retail Constructors, Inc.

In 1987 Michael Buckner and Ted Page both saw an opportunity to start what was originally called Specialty Retail Constructors, Inc. but soon was renamed Retail Constructors, Inc. In 1987 the opportunity that presented itself was that Michael and Ted were both in the process of making future employment decisions at the same time and coincidently at the same place when they found each other. Michael had all of the necessary experience in construction and Ted, through his previous employer had worked with and knew many business owners in need of new and remodel construction services. In the first few years Michael and Ted traveled the United States installing the extensive fixture package for the Wallpapers to Go Retail stores. From there they moved into remodeling retail stores primarily for the franchisees of WNS corporation which included Wicks-n-Sticks, Deck the Walls and Wallpapers to Go. Their first big opportunity came in 1989 when Deck the Walls signed a lease in the beginning of November for a store in Houston Galleria and needed it to be open the day after Thanksgiving. Upon being awarded the challenge of a full store with a two week build out, Mike and Ted, with a 24 hour, 7 days a week construction schedule took turns sleeping in the store to successfully complete the job in two weeks. There was much buzz at the time about this new GC that did a complete build out in two weeks and RCI became one of the busiest GC's of high end retail stores in the Galleria with several other chains becoming clients over the state of Texas. Shortly after this RCI became a GC for the stores of the Edison Brothers Shoe and Brown Shoe retail chains out of St. Louis. These two holding companies together represented over 15 retail National Marquees in Regional Malls. RCI also built for the chains of Hallmark Cards, Whitehall Jewelry, Marmi Shoe, Lids, Body Shop, Clarke Shoes, Ace Mart Restaurant Supply, Steak Escape restaurants, The Tamale Factory restaurants, Ace Hardware, Sprint and Verizon retail stores. RCI also does Office T-I work as you will see in the picture gallery.

Today RCI is involved in Tenant Improvement work for National and Regional Retail chains, Office T-I work, Restaurant construction and small to medium Out of the Ground Projects. We have chosen to limit the geographical area we cover to the State of Texas. It is our philosophy that in order to provide the results expected from our customers that we should be personally involved in every project. This would not be possible if we tried to cover the whole country as some of our competitors do. We have an excellent group of subcontractors that we have come to trust and they in turn know the result we expect