About Urban Nest

Twenty-eight years on the bench.

We're a Pacific-Northwest commercial GC, founded in 1998 in Tacoma. Same family, same philosophy: own the equipment, keep the crews on payroll, and hand back the keys when we said we would.

Our Story

Two generations of estimators and field crews.

Greg Halverson and Linnea Reid founded the firm out of a 600 sq ft office on Pacific Highway with a single Caterpillar excavator and a notebook. The first three years were earthworks subbed for bigger GCs across King and Pierce counties. Year four, they self-performed their first commercial slab — a small lab building for a regional university — and never went back.

Today the firm runs three permanent yards — Tacoma, Portland, Boise — and self-performs concrete, framing, and most demolition with crews kept on payroll between jobs. Mechanical, electrical, and finishes go to the same five trade partners on most projects. The work is repeat-client driven; about three quarters of any given year's billings come from owners we've already built for at least once.

The bench is what we sell — owners get the same superintendent and PM from the bid through punch list, and the same trade partners they met on the walkthrough. Schedules stay in our hands because the people who set them are the people who run the work.

How We Work

Three things we mean by it.

Self-perform first.

Concrete, framing, and demolition are run by our crews. The schedule lives on our hands, not on a sub's calendar.

Same superintendent.

The PM and superintendent who walk the bid are the ones who run the build. No bait-and-switch the day we win. Read Greg's Bio →

Six weeks of pre-con.

Estimating, value engineering, constructibility review — all six weeks before bucket one. Catches change orders in DD, not mid-build.

Have a project to scope?

Drawings, an RFP, or just a phone call — we'll have an estimator look at it within two business days.