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2021 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 186
BY SENATOR PEACOCK
COMMENDATIONS. To commend Brown Builders on its 50
th
Anniversary.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend Brown Builders, Inc. upon the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary.
3 WHEREAS, Brown Builders, Inc. is celebrating its fiftieth year of providing
4 excellence in construction; and
5 WHEREAS, the roots of Brown Builders, Inc. were planted in 1971, when Wayne
6 Brown joined his father, James, and brother, Doug, to form a commercial construction
7 company, which he named Brown Builders, Inc., to provide both the design and construction
8 services; Wayne's daughter, Kristen, would join them in 1999 to serve as vice president of
9 the company, and later on as president of Brown Builders, Inc. in 2013; and
10 WHEREAS, since its founding, Brown Builders, Inc. has grown into one of the
11 largest general contractors in Louisiana, and has been recognized for its construction
12 excellence by being twice named as the Butler Manufacturing Company Builder of the Year
13 for the Southwestern United States, Louisiana Concrete Project of the Year, and as a finalist
14 for Louisiana Entrepreneur of the Year; and
15 WHEREAS, over the past fifty years, Brown Builders, Inc. has performed more than
16 one billion dollars of construction in Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana, and other southern
17 states, which includes landmarks such as Benteler Steel, Parkway High School, Noel
18 Library, Willis-Knighton Bossier, Superior's Steakhouse, the Science, Technology,
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1 Engineering, and Math building on the Bossier Parish Community College Campus,
2 renovations to First Baptist Bossier and several multi-family apartments, and the
3 development of over twenty-five hundred home lots; and
4 WHEREAS, through their constructions, Brown Builders, Inc. has provided for
5 citizens to work, play, study, worship, and do business.
6 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
7 does hereby commend Brown Builders, Inc. upon the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
8 of its founding, recognizes and records for posterity the pride and honor it brings to the city
9 of Bossier City and the state of Louisiana, and extends best wishes for continued success.
10 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
11 Brown Builders, Inc.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Lebra R. Bias.
DIGEST
SR 186 Original 2021 Regular Session Peacock
Commends Brown Builders, Inc. on its 50
th
anniversary.
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