A group of veterans in the construction industry have combined their knowledge and experience to form a new Charlotte-based company. Chase Walker, Jase Shoe, Bill Blank, Mike Faulks, Kathryn Blank and Ron Jarvis merged local construction companies Walker and Shoe and Southeast Interior Systems to create 3TEN Construction. The new company launched on March 10. 3TEN’s headquarters, located at 4100 Revolution Park Drive in the airport submarket, spans 20,000 square feet with about 6,000 square feet of office space. The rest is warehouse and pre-fabrication space, Walker said. Walker, Shoe, Blank and Blank are company partners; Faulks and Jarvis are founding members. Blank said the group began working on the company last year, and things began coming together in a real way in the fourth quarter. “We all came together and began working together in December and ended up merging the companies shortly after the first of the year to build a better business.” He said each of them had what Blank described as a “Jerry Maguire moment” while planning. “It was about his mission statement, you know — fewer clients, less revenue focused, better relationships and better service,” he said.

Blank said the name 3TEN is based on the company’s three main tenets — being skill builders and leaders, valuing people and progress over process and showing authenticity and heart. “We wanted the name of the organization to be something that will last for generations, not about us individually,” he said. “(It) derived from our three tenets, things we feel that are lacking within the industry, and how we plan to conduct our business and serve our clients.” 3TEN focuses predominately on the health care, higher education and commercial automotive industries, Walker said.

The team declined to name specific clients, but Walker said they are currently working on several projects, including a design-assist on a regional university’s new residence hall, a design-build on a Concord-based car-dealership expansion and pre-construction on a new medical office building and freestanding emergency department in Summerville, South Carolina. “We want to focus on what we’d consider good clients and what we perform really well, which is health care, higher ed and commercial/automotive,” he said. “That’s what we’ve done in the market for the past 20 years between us.”

Walker added, “As we grow, our focus won’t be based on revenue goals, but rather on meeting the demands of our clients and how we can best serve them.”

REPRINT: BY ELISE FRANCO – STAFF WRITER, CHARLOTTE BUSINESS JOURNAL | MARCH 20, 2025