Egan Company history

1958 Egan & Sons Air Conditioning Company is created, marking the first diversification effort of the business

1960: Egan moves its longtime office from Bond Avenue to Winter Street and adds plumbing to its services.

1968: Grand Rapids Public Schools builds Union High School, the first in decades, and Egan provides mechanical services.

1974 Egan Companies become the first to form an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in Minnesota

1979 Nietz Business Repositions Boat and snowmobile business sold to another local family and still operates today as Al’s Specialty Marine.

1982: Egan is the mechanical contractor on an iconic downtown project, the Amway Tower.

1985: Egan’s service division takes off, and the company begins expanding its services.

Originally the Minneapolis Auditorium, the Convention Center was constructed in 1989, with Egan providing mechanical services on the project.

1997: Egan’s engineering department is established and begins offering Design-Build and Design-Assist services for projects such as the JW Marriott.

Egan moves its office to Waldorf Court, but by 1998 has grown large enough to construct a new building on nearby Waldorf Street.

1999: Egan opens a fabrication shop in its current building, expanding twice to support new work.

2001: Having provided services to most of the buildings that shape the Grand Rapids skyline, Egan is the mechanical contractor on another iconic downtown project, the DeVos Convention Center.

2003 Consolidation into one corporate office in Brooklyn Park

2004: An acquisition adds a service and controls division, which includes an office in Kalamazoo.

2008: Work begins on Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Egan’s largest project ever.

2009: The company completes its largest BIM project to date, the Van Andel Institute Phase II.

2010: Egan Food Technologies is founded as a sister company that offers food processing equipment.

2015 Acquisition of Kestner Electric (Austin) further expanding presence in Southern Minnesota

2016 Expansion/consolidation of metro offices

Nietz Electric repositions due to Southern Minnesota growth; further integrates operations as Egan Company Egan Company named a 2017 Star Tribune Top Workplace