Cedar Valley Corp. specializies in Heavy Highway Construction, Public Instructure, Business and Industrial Parks, Airport Runway/Taxiways, Sub Divisions, Parking Lots, and Municipal Paving.
A Solid Foundation
Cedar Valley Corp., one of the Midwest’s premier highway construction companies, is a second generation, family-owned and operated corporation founded in 1971. The company specializes in heavy highway construction, public infrastructure, business and industrial parks, airport runways/taxiways, subdivisions, and municipal paving.
Seduction to an industry
To get a real feel for the history of this company, one must go back to 1948 when its founder, Robins H. Jackson, graduated from Iowa State College with a degree in civil engineering. He joined Jackson Construction Company (“JCC”), a small building firm specializing in buildings, warehouses and schools, founded two years earlier in 1946 in Emmetsburg, Iowa, by his brother Bill.
One day in 1951 Robins Jackson approached Irving Jensen, Sr., whose highway paving firm was seriously behind schedule on a paving job in Palo Alto County, Iowa. Seizing the opportunity, Jackson offered to help.
“Until then the nearest we’d been to the highway business was driving by on our way to work,” reported Jackson. Jensen lent equipment, labor and a foreman to the Jackson brothers, who attacked the job with everything they had. “We paved 900 feet the first day,” Robins says. “Not bad for a fellow who’d started out doing painting and light carpentry on homes and farms. After that I knew I wanted to be in the highway business.” From that point on Jackson Construction Company turned its focus to heavy highway construction. |
