Longtime executives buy area steel contracting firm

The new owners have already begun to expand Better Buildings.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 9:23 p.m. February 26, 2020
Courtesy. A Better Buildings Inc. project at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.
Courtesy. A Better Buildings Inc. project at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.
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FORT MYERS — Jeff Richards and Jeanette Dean Richards, president and vice president of steel building contractor and erector Better Buildings Inc.  for over 25 years, recently purchased 100% of the decades-old company from the former owners, the Dean family.

 

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