Ironically, a job with only two bidders helped Daniel J. Keating Co. of Narberth, Pa., survive 2009 with no layoff s and $172 million in revenue. Daniel J. Keating teamed up with the Keating Building Corp. of Philadelphia on a $500-million expansion to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. It’s keeping both firms and their subcontractors busy during a rough economy, and it’s not scheduled for completion until 2011.
Also in 2009, the company continued work on a $29-million conversion of the historic, 36,000-sq-ft, namesake Baptist Temple at Temple University in Philadelphia into a 1,200-seat performing arts center. The company completed a $15-million, 13,000-sq-ft addition and renovation to the Music Building at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.