Category: PARIC People

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Under the leadership of Mike Rallo, Jr., PARIC Corp. is tackling the 2024 construction marketplace with a new approach. While still serving nine unique markets, a more focused, client-centric approach to four key sectors of Industrial, Institutional, Living and Special Projects is underway. This new structure will position PARIC to better meet our clients’ changing needs, provide greater focus and accountability at the sector level, enable greater flexibility for the company and provide mentorship, learning and growth opportunities for our next generation of leaders.

With a concentration on continued, deliberate growth, Rallo and Chief Operating Officer Todd Goodrich have promoted five employees to senior management and business development teams to lead these sectors.

“These promotions align with our strategic plan of promoting from within,” Rallo said. “We are ever-expanding our internal leadership development opportunities to support promotions at all levels of the company and we’re proud to announce our next generation of leadership,” he added.

“These promotions align with our strategic plan of promoting from within,” Rallo said. “We are ever-expanding our internal leadership development opportunities to support promotions at all levels of the company and we’re proud to announce our next generation of leadership,” he added.

Promotions For Each Market Sector

Industrial leadership: Andy Schollenberger, Vice President & Sector Leader
Industrial business development:  Michael Picker, Vice President

Institutional leadership, including healthcare and academic: Brian Stoesz, Vice President & Sector Leader
Institutional business development:  Stephanie Jeffries, Vice President

Living, including multi-family and historic renovation: Drew Siebert, Vice President & Sector Leader

Special Projects, including tenant improvement and short-turn, specialty projects: 
Kurt Gildehaus, Vice President (promoted 2022) & Sector Leader

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“We plan to add more than 100 talented people both in the office and the field in the next two years. Due to our comprehensive career development programs, PARIC will continue to be the first choice of the best and most sought-after individuals,” Rallo added.

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Examples of the range of PARIC’s current and recent work include:

•  Leadership of a joint venture for construction of Boeing’s new $2B St. Louis Expansion Project near St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
• St. Louis Community College – Florissant Valley Center for Nursing & Health Sciences – this 100,000 square foot building will provide a simulation-based learning environment for students and will be home to the College’s first bachelor’s degree, a BS in respiratory care.
• Major renovations to the 5^th and 3^rd floors of the St. Charles County Corrections Center, providing an updated commercial kitchen and 28,000 square feet of new housing units.
• $110M historic renovation of the Butler Brothers Building, now The Victor, at 1717 Olive Street offering of nearly 400 apartments in St. Louis’ Downtown West.
• 360 West, boasting panoramic views from the 12^th floor of the Westport Plaza Gold Tower.
• Rawlings Retail Experience will be a new flagship customer experience destination for St. Louis that goes beyond a traditional retail store.
• Missouri University of Science & Technology’s $10.4M, 35,000 square foot General Services Building.
• $55M restoration of the historic AT&T building in downtown Kansas City.
• One Nine Vine apartments – the first multi-family, market-rate attainable and affordable housing development built in the historic 18^th & Vine district of Kansas City since 2006.
• The 150-foot-tall KC Wheel, offering 36 fully enclosed, climate-controlled gondolas and one-of-a-kind views of the Kansas City skyline.
• On-schedule to complete this month is the new $175M Children’s Hospital and Birthing Center for MU Health Care in Columbia, Missouri.
• Phase II Walnut Tower of the Broadway Hotel in downtown Columbia, adding 80 guest rooms and suites, as well as 8,300 square feet of meeting and conference space.

Projects just getting underway include:

• Phase I of the St. Louis Gateway South Project, the re-development of the former Crunden Martin Manufacturing building just south of the Gateway Arch National Park.
• El Portal, a historic renovation and conversion of the former CPS Energy headquarters in San Antonio into a 243-room hotel in Marriott’s Autograph Collection.
• Missouri University of Science & Technology new state-of-the-art $65M Protoplex building which will anchor the Manufacturing Technology and Innovation Campus on the west side of Interstate 44 at Rolla, Missouri. The 116,000 square foot building includes lab and shop spaces plus high bay or double-height labs.

PARIC Corporation, one of the region’s leading general contractor, construction manager and design-build firms, has announced that former Vice President of Operations Mike Rallo, Jr. is the new president of the company, effective September 1 – just the fifth since the company was founded in 1979. He replaces Keith Wolkoff, who stepped down from the role in March.

The company also has announced that Todd Goodrich, a 25-year PARIC veteran, will become the company’s new executive vice president – chief operating officer.

Rallo, who joined PARIC in 2003 as a project engineer, has held numerous leadership roles in the company’s operations, eventually rising to vice president of operations in 2016. His appointment as president follows an extensive internal and external search.

“Following our search process, it was crystal clear that Mike was the right person to help lead our company to a new era of sustained growth,” said Joe McKee, chairman and CEO of PARIC Corp. “He has a proven history of leadership among our clients and colleagues, and is focused on growing and developing our next generation of leaders.”

One of Rallo’s first major roles was leading the Express Scripts Campus project in north St. Louis County — the largest LEED project in Missouri at the time of completion. He also led the North Park Redevelopment and Park Pacific Historic Renovation, as well as the River City Casino, Washington University Loop Student Housing and two campus repositioning projects for Lutheran Senior Services in St. Louis, among other projects.

Rallo serves on the development board of St. Louis Children’s Hospital and is currently secretary/treasurer for the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Missouri.

Goodrich joined PARIC in 1997. He has served as a vice president for more than 15 years, most recently as chief business development officer.

“Over his 25 years with PARIC, Todd has overseen our significant growth in the not-for-profit senior living market,” McKee said. “And he was instrumental in driving PARIC as an early adopter of virtual design construction technologies.”

In his 10 years as vice president of business development, Goodrich oversaw a nearly threefold growth of PARIC’s valuation.

“We are extremely confident that Mike and Todd are the right leadership team to advance PARIC during this time of significant, ongoing change in our industry,” McKee said.