Contractor company now at Southwest Florida's Beck and call

Prior to the downturn of a decade ago, the Beck Companies — a multi-disciplinary land development, commercial and residential construction and home services firm — had focused its business on economically disadvantaged Glades and Hendry counties. There was a need to be filled in the region the Beck family called home since the early 1900s, and although revenues were limited there, they were dedicated to their adopted home area.

Founded in 2003 by Derek Beck and his father, Earl, the firm, during the recession, further made ends meet by building homes for the Seminole reservation on the western shore of Lake Okeechobee.