KPRS Adapts to COVID Curveball

For the past 30 years, Joel Stensby has taken part in building some of California’s best-known structures, including the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Pac Bell Park (now Oracle Park) in San Francisco, and Library Square in Los Angeles.  

In 1998, he co-founded KPRS Construction Services Inc., which has consistently ranked as one of the fastest growing and largest tenant improvement and general contracting firms on the Business Journal’s annual lists. Nowadays, it generates about $600 million in annual sales and supports thousands of employees and subcontractors.
 
Stensby initially believed 2020 would be a banner year. Then the coronavirus hit, which slowed some projects and pushed back timetables a few months. Last September, he predicted revenue in 2021 would “be significantly higher.” After the surge in cases last December and January, he appears ready to leave the coronavirus behind.

“It has been an interesting year,” he said in an email to the Business Journal. “As you know, COVID-19 threw the entire industry several curve balls.

“KPRS continues to provide service to our clients. We have continued to work as an essential work contributor.  

“While progress is not without challenges, we are looking forward to being through the hurdles and moving forward as a company and as a community to have COVID in our rear view mirror.”