Dallas-based Centex Construction Opens Area Office

CHARLOTTE-Eyeing the state’s multi-billion plans for building higher educational buildings and correctional institutions, as well as the viable commercial market, Centex Construction Co. is opening an office here to expand its operations in the Carolinas and Georgia.

“The first big opportunity for us is the $3-billion bond package that passed in November for higher education facilities in North Carolina over the next five years,” Robert B. Hambright, new president and CEO of the Charlotte office, tells GlobeSt.com.

He says another target market will be three new prisons with a price tag of $200 million. Contractors are still to be named for both that project and the college construction. But Hambright adds Centex is not ignoring the commercial market, either.