As construction started gearing up late last year to rebuild some 3,000 homes in Santa Rosa burned by the 2017 Tubbs Fire, there were several challenges. One of the greatest was the shortage of concrete.
“We were two, three, four weeks out on concrete,” says John Farrow, CEO and president of Santa Rosa-based Farrow Construction. Farrow approached the owner of a small batch plant and asked what could be done to speed the process. The batch plant owner’s answer? “Buy my plant.”