1955 - Nesbitt Contracting Celebrates 60 Years - 2015
Company History
O
ne of the best advertisements for
Nesbitt Contracting is their concrete
stamps found throughout the Valley. “We
get calls from people who tell us, ‘I saw
your name in the sidewalk,’” Jim says.
“Recently, while working on project at the
Williams-Gateway Airport, our employees
found a Nesbitt concrete stamp dated
1960.”
That stamp would have been
imprinted a mere five years after the
company’s founding in 1955 by the late
Thomas J. “Tom” Nesbitt. Tom ran the firm
for 40 years before retiring in 1995. “My
life has been devoted to my business,” Tom
said in a 1990 interview with Southwest
Contractor.
Born in 1926, Tom had an early start
in the construction field, as his father,
Joseph, was a building contractor in Mesa.
Tom Nesbitt with county inspector.
He often helped out on his father’s jobs as
a young boy. This spurred his career in the
construction field and prepared him for
math and engineering courses in high
school.
Tom continued his engineering
education while serving in the Navy during
World War II. He trained as a pilot in the
ROTC program and was stationed at
Northern Arizona College and the
University of New Mexico. After his
discharge in 1946, Tom re-enlisted in the
Naval Reserve and completed his civil
engineering degree at the New Mexico
school in 1948, concurrently earning his
Pavement milling project at
Durango–La Plata County Airport.
Congratulations to Nesbitt Contracting
on 60 years of service.
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