Elkins Constructors is a privately held corporation headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

 founded in 1955 by Martin Elkins. Purchased in 1984 by a group of investors which included current CEO, Barry Allred. The company is one of Florida's largest privately held construction companies and the builder of choice for Lowes. They perform general contracting

General contractor

A general contractor is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and communication of information to involved parties throughout the course of a building project.-Description:...

, Design/build, and Construction management

Construction management

Construction Project Management is the overall planning, coordination and control of a project from inception to completion aimed at meeting a client’s requirements in order to produce a functionally and financially viable project that will be complete mingement is project management that applies...

 services for commercial, industrial, multi-family residential

Multi-family residential

Multi-family residential is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. A common form is an apartment building...

, institutional, and retail projects. Elkins Constructors, Inc. has constructed 49 Lowe's Home Centers, 24 Wal-Mart Supercenters, 4 Kohls Department Stores, 2 Winn Dixie Supermarkets and 2 Stein Mart Department Stores, all in the southeast US.

Industry segments include:

• Condominiums
• Corporate Headquarters
• Healthcare
• Higher Education
• K-12
• Manufacturing/ Distribution
• Mixed-Use
• Public
• Office
• Retail
• Senior Living
• Worship

The Engineering News-Record magazine ranked Elkins Constructors Inc. as No. 28 in its Top 50 Green Contractors for 2007 (US) list.