Black Woman-Owned Construction Company Lands Airport Contract in Male-Dominated Industry
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Despite all the testosterone in the construction industry, one Black woman-owned development company is breaking ground in a major way.
Jeanie Hunter’s Synergy Development Partners recently put the finishing touches on an updated canopy feature at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. She landed the project as part of a joint venture contract she signed onto with McCarthy and New South Construction,
Atlanta Black Star reports.
After starting off in real estate, Hunter launched the construction company in 2003 along with real estate developer Ralph Phillips. “As a career path, construction wasn’t something that I thought about when I went to college,” Hunter admits. “I thought in construction you really had to have a hammer or some type of trade experience.”