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Crystal award with "2024 Business of the Year" engraving, honoring Bouten Construct from Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce, displayed on a table with silverware in the background.

What an Honor!

On behalf of our Tri-Cities team, Bouten vice president Brandon Potts accepted the Business of the Year award from the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce yesterday at the organization’s 2025 Annual Meeting & Awards Luncheon. Candidates for the award were judged on a number of criteria, including their ability to demonstrate growth, a record of

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Sketch of Troy McMurtrey, a Senior Superintendent with short hair and a goatee, wearing a collared shirt. He is smiling, with the artwork in shades of blue.

Meet Troy McMurtrey, Senior Superintendent

“If you look at your work and you say, ‘I wonder if that’s good enough,’ it’s not.” My first job was at Dick’s when I was still in high school. No kidding. Dick’s Hamburgers. I was a prep cook. Only worked there for about six months, but then I couldn’t get out of the restaurant field

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A man and a boy stand beside a Bouten Construction Co. truck in an industrial setting, symbolizing the Bouten Construction legacy. The truck identifies the company as general contractors from Spokane, Washington, with the phone number KE 9321.

Our Story

It began in Aberdeen, South Dakota: a modest home, built by a thirteen-year-old Belgian immigrant with the help of a carpenter and a laborer. Gus J. Bouten, son of a master craftsman, had made his mark on the world with little more than an eighth-grade education, a single-minded work ethic, and a knack for building

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