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Minority & Small Business Week
September 29, 2010
Work for Minority
PCC expansion boosts local employment
A Portland Community College Small Businesses firms,
bond program remodeling job re-
In Line Commercial Construction,
cently involved one ofOregon'slarg- based in Aloha, remodeled 4,000
est Minority, Women, and Emerging square feet o f Student Services
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Dave Flint (right), the founder and president of In Line Commercial
Construction, a local minority-owned business, leads his team on a
remodeling job at Portland Community College in north Portland. He is
joined by his senior project manager Todd Duwe (far left) and senior
vice president Jeff Stanton.
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Building's third floor on the
Cascade Campus in north
Portland, providing PCC with
renovated office space for
staff and faculty to help ac­
commodate the school’s 20
percent growth in enrollment.
The space, frees up other
rooms on campus for class­
rooms.
In this early stage of PCC’s
property tax bond levy for the
expansion of facilities district
wide, the college has utilized
41 MWESB contractors.
Founded in 1983 by Dave
Flint, who is Japanese Ameri­
can, In Line today consists of
about 50 employees and is
rated as the largest minority-
owned business in Oregon,
w orking on 250 to 300
projects every year.
"Through the 28 years since
we were founded we have
brought on some great people;
are continuing to grow the
company and the client base
we work with," Flint said. "As
a minority company, there are
responsibilities that go with
that. One is you want to per­
form at the very highest level.
We are competitive with the
best because we provide an
outstanding service for our cli­
ents, not because we are mi­
nority-owned."
Jeff Stanton, In Line's se­
nior vice president, added that
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