Consolidated Contracting in 2025 surpassed $100 million in annual sales for the first time, up from $96 million the year before—marking another record year for the firm.
“It’s a gigantic goal and hurdle to get over,” Chief Executive Tony Elias-Calles told the Business Journal. “We’ve been dreaming about that for a long time.”
Elias-Calles took over the commercial construction firm from his former boss in 1989, when there were no customers. He renamed it Consolidated Contracting, and after four years, his brother-in-law Joseph Troya joined the business.
Over the last three decades, Consolidated has worked primarily in the commercial sector with projects including healthcare facilities, senior and affordable housing, corporate offices, parks, recreation and sports centers, religious buildings and private education.
The parks and recreation category has been a cornerstone for the firm, having completed almost 30 parks in Orange County for Newport Beach-based Irvine Co.
Additionally, more family members have joined operations such as Elias-Calles’ kids Matthew and Shane and Troya’s wife Alis along with the pair’s nephew Ryan Kraemer and Troya’s son-in-law Eric Flores.
The company won a Business Journal Family-Owned Business Award last year in the medium-size category.
Elias-Calles said he didn’t expect his family to become a part of Consolidated when he first took over the firm.
“To be honest, I never expected them to come here and never expected the company to be blessed by God the way it has been,” he said.
“The boys — it’s crazy to think of what they were as little people, watching them grow up, and now getting to watch them as men and leading a company is fantastic,” the CEO added, referring to his sons.
Consolidated, with 70 employees, has several projects in the works for 2026, such as another assisted living facility in San Marcos and a mixed-use building with retail and apartments for a church in Fontana. The firm is about to start working on a new clinic, followed by work at a preschool in Corona.
80% of the company’s work is repeat business, and Elias-Calles said recent opportunities with new clients have led to more jobs in assisted living centers and self-storage.
The firm just completed a seven-story apartment complex for affordable senior living in Chula Vista, known as the Congregational Suites.
Elias-Calles said private development in assisted living centers had “dried up” in the last few years, so Consolidated turned to affordable housing markets, which have become the largest area of growth for the firm.
“The morale is an all-time high as you can imagine, coming off of 2020 and ‘21 and ’22, which were brutal years,” he said.
Elias-Calles said that 2026, “God-willing,” was lining up to be another potential record year.
“Our philosophy is excellence and profitability,” he added. “That’s what we’re always shooting for.”
