MARTIN-HARRIS CONSTRUCTION
Henderson Justice Expansion & Parking Garage
“ I think many family companies decline because they hold on too long .”
– Frank Martin , President
accounting , then , were filled respectively by Frank Martin , Frank Harris and their bookkeeper , who stayed with the company till 1990 . In December 1979 Martin bought out Harris , though he too continued to work in the company until the early 1990s , and since that date Frank has been the sole proprietor of the company – until very recently , that is .
In the early days it was difficult to get work . Martin relied on building individual private homes , work for the local churches and a certain amount of work for the city authority . “ In those days Las Vegas was a very different kind of a city from today ,” he explains . “ Development money was basically controlled by five or six families . Those families did not really start doing business with us
94 July 2016