The Gallegos Corporation, Vail, Colo.
Gallegos said he’s already been awarded five projects in Vail, and estimates he’ll hire another 300-400 people in the next several months.
“The developers of Beaver Creek are doing a job in Lake Tahoe,” Gallegos adds, “and we’ve got five of the first six commercial retail buildings there too.”
And if that’s not enough, they’ve been asked to provide and install all the stone for the Warren Miller Lodge at the Yellowstone Club, the Montana exclusive private ski resort near Yellowstone National Park .
A job that size prompted Gallegos to add a branch office in Bozeman, Mont., near the park.
“We set up offices to get control and keep in touch,” Gallegos explains, “and we send the division president and secretary there to start a staff.”
Besides the big or special projects they’ve got going on around the country, The Gallegos Corporation keeps busy in and around the Denver area, with 150 employees working in Colorado Springs and the upscale Castle Pines development south of Denver.
Many of those types of clients – who Gallegos says have some of the biggest homes in Denver – also have property in the mountains, so The Gallegos Corporation is often asked to do work at both sites.
“People have gigantic ranches that go on forever, or own 30,000 acres, so we’ll go in and do a compound for them,” he says. “That might involve a 25,000 ft² main lodge, then cabins or outbuildings on their property.”
GIVING BACK
Seven years ago, Gerald Gallegos brought in another brother – Glenn – to oversee the day-to-day duties in the field. According to Little, Glenn and Bob help free up Gerald for the community volunteering he loves to do these days.
“He’s very involved with organizations to help young children in after-school programs,” Little says. “He’s a very community-oriented person.”
It’s true, Gallegos admits. He spends as much time as he can working on community ventures, especially those involving the kids of Vail.
“I’m probably involved with the Gallegos Corp. 25 percent of the time,” Gallegos says.
“My volunteer work probably takes up the other 75 percent of my time. I’m the president of the Youth Foundation in the Vail Valley, which helps underprivileged kids. I’m also on the board of the Vail Valley Foundation with President Gerald Ford.”
This is the first year that Gallegos considered saying “no” to a client, simply because the workload became so great. However, he’s going to concentrate on hiring more help before he has to resort to that.