ST. LOUIS—McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., a St. Louis-based developer best known for its education, science and technology projects, has just hired Jennifer Abbott as a director of business development. Abbott will develop and maintain both K-12 and higher education client relationships for McCarthy's Central Division.
Recent McCarthy projects include the $45 million expansion of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a not-for-profit research institute in suburban St. Louis originally built by McCarthy in 2001, and the $20 million Performing Arts Center for the Arcadia Unified School District in Arcadia, CA.
Abbott has a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and started with McCarthy as a project engineer intern back in 2006. For the past five years, Abbott has managed owner, contractor and consulting engineer accounts as a systems sales engineer for Johnson Controls, Inc. in the St. Louis area. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Construction Leadership Council since 2011, participated in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Construction Leadership Institute in 2012 and is a member of the Society for College and University Planning.
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