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MWBE Fast Facts
The City of Arlington is
working with the Texas
Rangers and The Cordish
Companies to ensure the
diversity of the workforce
for both the future ballpark
and the Texas Live!
development.
Texas Live!
$48,639,829, or 37 percent,
of the total awarded
contract dollars has been
awarded to minority and
women-owned businesses
as of July 2018.
Globe Life Field
$763,252,087, or 25
percent, of the total
awarded contract dollars
has been awarded to MWBE
firms as of July 2018.
EJ Smith Construction
Roberts Trucking crews worked six
days a week around the clock for
a three-month period to haul off
truckload after truckload of dirt
from the future Globe Life Field
construction site.
By the end of the massive excavation
job, the company had removed more
than 1 million cubic yards of dirt to
make way for the Texas Rangers’ new
$1.2-billion, retractable-roof baseball
stadium.
Roberts Trucking, founded in
1979 by Arthur Roberts Sr., is the
largest African-American owned
construction materials hauling
company in North Texas. The
company has grown over the
years, expanding its services into
excavating and demolition. Today,
Roberts Trucking operates more than
300 construction trucks and trailers
in the DFW market.
“The family business was initially
started with two dump trucks and
a vision,” said Quincy Roberts, who
is the grandson of the founder and
now the company’s president.
Roberts learned about the ballpark
project in Arlington’s Entertainment
District through the Regional Black
Contractors Association. The ACARI
Management Group, he added, was
instrumental in arranging a meeting
between his firm and the Manhattan
Construction Company, which
is the general contractor for the
ballpark, to discuss subcontracting
possibilities.
The Texas Rangers selected ACARI
Management Group to help ensure
the Rangers meet MWBE contract
goals set by the City of Arlington
as part of the public-private
partnership to build the ballpark.
“The MWBE goal of 25 percent is
commendable and clearly shows
the City of Arlington is committed to
equality and growth opportunities
for everyone,” said Roberts, adding
that his company’s role working on
the high-profile ballpark project has
already led to other contracts in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area.
“I am proud to have had my
company participate in the project.”
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