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COMMERCIAL CONTRACTOR (LARGE) Our Gold winner, founded in 1999, is McCOWNGORDON CONSTRUCTION, now one of the metro’s most prominent construction management, design-build, and general contracting firms, with offic es in Kansas City, Manhattan and Wichita, Kansas, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Its port folio spans corporate, healthcare, K-12 education, manufacturing, and civic con struction. JE DUNN CONSTRUCTION CO. earns Silver —the century-old Kansas City original and one of the country’s larg est privately held contractors. CENTRIC takes Bronze . COMMERCIAL CONTRACTOR (SMALL) LUCAS COMMERCIAL FLOORING GROUP of Independence shines bright with our readers, who say the combination of design, planning, installation, budget, project man- agement and more is good for Gold . Bringing home Silver is woman-owned MONARCH BUILD , specializing in a broad category of projects. Bronze goes to ANDERSEN ROOFING & CONTRACTING , doing a lot more than just roof work.

tional roots in Kansas City. UMB earns Silver — headquartered at 1010 Grand Boulevard and tracing its own roots to a 1913 founding (also by the Kemper family), UMB has grown into a financial holding company with tens of bil lions in assets and a long-running role as a top corporate supporter and presenting sponsor of the American Royal. ACADEMY BANK and COMMUNITYAMERICA CREDIT UNION tie for Bronze —Academy Bank for its metro-wide branch network and small-busi ness banking strength, CommunityAmerica for its standing as the Kansas City area’s largest credit union and member-owned model. BEST ENGINEERING FIRM PMA ENGINEERING earns Gold in a catego ry with nationally significant competition, driv en by client-level loyalty built through project delivery. BURNS&McDONNELL earns Silver . The Kansas City engineering firm operating from its home campus with more than 10,000 employees globally and a perennial player in the nation’s largest infrastructure and energy projects. BLACK & VEATCH takes Bronze — another Kansas City-headquartered global engineering firm with roots going back to 1915, underscoring an unusual concentration of engineering excellence in a single metro.

media services from its downtown Kansas City headquarters. The Gold winner’s divi sions include Prairie Dog (health-care mar keting), Proventus (legal marketing), and Carl Collective (student-involvement work), and has been consistently named Best Small Advertising Agency by Ingram’s readers across multiple years. TREASURE ADVERTISING earns Silver ; DMH and CONTRACTORS SOCIAL tie for Bronze . BEST ARCHITECTURAL/ DESIGN FIRM MULTISTUDIO —theevolutionofGouldEvans, founded in 1974 by two University of Kansas classmates—earns Gold as the metro’s most- voted architectural and design firm this year. Operating from five studios in KC, Lawrence, New Orleans, Phoenix, and San Francisco, the firm spans architecture, brand experience, city design, education design, and interiors. BNIM earns Silver , the KC-headquartered sus- tainable design firm with a national reputation. FOCAL DESIGN STUDIO takes Bronze . BEST BANK Tracing its history to an 1865 founding, COM- MERCE BANK earns Gold as the publicly traded regional bank with the deepest institu

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