Our mission is to deliver a better construction experience.
ABOUT US
OUR VALUES
Do What is Right
Safety, integrity, respect and sustainability drive our decision making.
Relationships
Through teamwork, we build lasting and trusted connections with our clients, teammates and community partners.
Do Our Best
We are driven to get positive results and believe that continuous professional and personal improvement have a positive impact on our business and community.
PROVIDE SOLUTIONS
We approach opportunities with a creative and adaptive mindset.
OUR LEADERSHIP
MARCUS RABUN
Chief Executive Officer/President
TRAVIS HOGUE
Vice President, Operations
BARRY CUTSHALL
Senior Vice President
DEREK CARPENTER
Vice President
LEIGH WHITE
Treasurer/Controller
OUR HISTORY
Founded in 1953 by Brevard Myers and John Chapman, Myers & Chapman is a Charlotte, NC based, full-service commercial construction company.
For 70 years, we have been building a solid reputation and iconic structures all over the region. Through changes in ownership and leadership to the great recession, we have rallied and rebounded, always staying true to our core values. Our first three decades in business, we focused on smaller jobs and dominated the retail sector. During this period, we delivered some Charlotte landmark buildings such as the Mutual Savings and Loan Building at the corner of South Tryon and MLK (now home to the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance) and Quail Corners Shopping Center. By 1986, we had grown to a $25 million company and attracted the attention of an unusual investor.
McCormick & Company (spice and packaged food) acquired Myers & Chapman that year but just two years later decided construction was not an industry they should be in and sold it to five members of the management team. In 1990, that group decided to liquidate assets and close the doors. Luckily, Mike North, a former project manager and VP for Brevard Myers and John Chapman, who had left to start his own construction company, Windsor Construction, stepped in. He purchased Myers & Chapman, merged it with Windsor and refocused the business strategy back to what had made Myers & Chapman successful during the first 30 years… relationships.
After 14 years, North wanted to pursue other interests and in 2004 sold the Company to 12 employees including then President Rick Handford and CEO Bob Webb. This proved to be the right leadership formula and by 2008, Myers & Chapman had become a nearly $100 million company working primarily in the office, industrial and retail sectors.
In 2013, Webb and Handford started a succession plan for the Company’s next transition. A group of six employees were identified as the next generation of leadership and ownership for Myers & Chapman. In 2015, a phased transfer of ownership began and in 2017, SVP of Operations/10-year Company employee, Marcus Rabun, became CEO. Bob Webb became Chairman of the Board and Rick Handford remained President until 2018, when he transitioned to the role of Treasurer and Board Director. Handford retired in 2021 and remains active on the Board.
Today, we continue to grow in revenues and have exciting projects underway throughout the Southeast. The company that started as a local, retail-driven general contractor has become a major regional player in the office, industrial, and medical categories.