The URL is a WP Engine staging site for ARCO Construction Company, not a separate firm. The live brand is arcoconstruction.com, with the national affiliate ARCO National Construction at arconational.com. Same company family, same pitch, same project library.
Who they are
ARCO is a St. Louis–based design-build general contractor founded in 1992 by Dick Arnoldy and Jeff Cook. Cook is still listed as co-founder and CEO. Year one was about $9.5 million in revenue. Today the enterprise is a national affiliate network: local offices plus a national delivery machine.
Published scale (numbers vary slightly by page and year):
| Claim | Source on site / filings |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992, St. Louis |
| Offices | ~47 nationwide (some ARCO pages say 45+ / 51 incl. Canada) |
| Projects completed | ~7,500 design-build jobs |
| Cities built in | ~500 U.S. cities |
| Annual revenue | ~$5.2B–$6.5B (Forbes / company pages) |
| Headcount | ~1,300–1,800 |
| Repeat-customer revenue | ~75% |
| Employees (Inc. 5000) | 501–1,000 band; Forbes later ~1,300 |
They rank as a top warehouse/distribution design-build firm (often #1 in that niche) and a top-10 U.S. design-build GC. Inc. 5000 listed them in 2024. HQ phone on the live site: (314) 963-0715. St. Louis office: 7930 Clayton Road, 3rd Fl., Richmond Heights, MO 63117.
Core purpose on the staging homepage: make the construction process enjoyable and beneficial for associates and customers. Values they put on the site: Integrity, Responsibility, Positivity, Opportunity.
What they actually sell
Not bid-spec GC work as the default. The product is turnkey design-build:
- Conceptual development with real cost input before you spend real design money
- Early risk transfer once the job is awarded
- Guaranteed upfront pricing from the design-build concept
- Single-source responsibility (architect + builder under one contract)
- Faster schedule because design and construction overlap
ARCO National’s version of the same pitch puts numbers on it: about 6% lower total cost, 33% faster construction, 61% faster overall delivery versus traditional design-bid-build. Treat those as marketing claims, not audited benchmarks.
For an owner or developer, the practical meaning is: they want to be in the room at feasibility, lock a number early, and own the drawing set. That is why they push warehouse parks, senior living prototypes, and repeat national accounts.
What they build
The staging site organizes work by product line, not by city:
- Warehouse / distribution — core franchise. Spec and build-to-suit tilt-up, cross-docks, 32-ft clear, ESFR, big electrical. Examples: Five Below 860,000 SF (Buckeye, AZ), Whirlpool 800,000 SF (Tulsa), Lenexa Logistics Centre (multiple buildings, 3.8M+ SF with Block Real Estate Services).
- Senior living — assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, CCRCs. Long relationships with StoryPoint / Provision Living (15-year mark on the blog). ARCO National cites ~75 senior projects, ~12,000 units, 15M+ SF.
- Multifamily — garden, mid-rise, mixed-use, some affordable. NEO Vantage Point (269 units, Maryland Heights), The Rail (268 units, St. Louis), Via (Springdale, AR), Citrine (Lake St. Louis).
- Manufacturing / process — beverage (Premium Waters, AriZona), packaging (Elopak), aerospace components, truck assembly.
- Cold storage / food — Cypress Cold Storage (Springdale), Fare Foods (Du Quoin, IL), PFG and Mies Family Foods in the KC metro.
- Specialty / entertainment — Live Nation Morton Amphitheater (16,000 seats, Riverside, MO), WOW! Entertainment (Fenton).
- Commercial, self-storage, cannabis/CEA, data-center-adjacent industrial, medical office, childcare.
Featured on the staging homepage: Sossaman Business Campus (Mesa, AZ; they tout $1.8M+ in VE savings), Live Nation amphitheater, Premium Waters, senior-living portfolio, Via mixed-use.
Midwest and Kansas footprint
No Topeka office. They do have a Kansas City division and a long KS/MO industrial list.
KC office listings appear as 5450 NW 40th Street, Riverside, MO 64150 and 5015 NW Canal Street (addresses have moved as the division grew). They built their own ~52,000 SF KC office/warehouse with BlueScope — gym, training room, even an NBA-size court — and won a 2025 KC Business Journal Capstone Award for it.
Kansas-side work that shows up on ARCO National’s KC project list:
- Lenexa Logistics Centre — 10-building industrial park; ARCO has delivered multiple buildings including South 6 (~199,000 SF) and claims 3.8M+ SF in that park with Block RES
- MSI Surfaces — 200,000 SF, Lenexa
- Faith Technologies — 438,000 SF manufacturing, Olathe
- KCAS Bioanalytical — ~68,000 SF lab/office, Olathe
- Grundfos — Class A office, Lenexa
- Standard Beverage — 117,880 SF expansion, Lawrence
- General Motors — 843,000 SF component/distribution, Kansas City, Kansas
- Mies Family Foods — 80,000 SF cold storage, Kansas City, Kansas
- Mission Road MOB — 22,000 SF, KCK
Missouri side of the same office: Live Nation amphitheater (Riverside), Premium Waters (Riverside), ColdPoint Logistics (~620,000 SF freezer/cooler, KCMO), Anthology of the Plaza senior living (adaptive reuse, KCMO).
So in this market they show up as a national design-build GC with a real KC industrial bench, not a Topeka local. For Shawnee County work they would typically run out of the KC office.
What the staging site is doing
arcoconststg.wpenginepowered.com is a redesign / content refresh of the marketing site:
- Hero: “A Better Construction Experience Begins with ARCO”
- Heavy project grid + industry filters
- Blog mixed of case studies, groundbreakings, and “how design-build works” explainers
- Thin contact page on staging (St. Louis, Phoenix, Northwest Arkansas phones only); the live site has the full office directory
- Almost no team bios on the staging homepage; leadership lives on the live About page (Cook, Hank Bellina as president, several VPs)
Content strategy is sales enablement: prove they already built your building type, in your region, for a repeat client.
How to read them as a counterpart
Strengths: national buying power, early price, warehouse/senior/multifamily repetition, KC industrial track record, single-source contract that developers like when lenders want a number.
Limits / watch-outs: affiliate model means the local team matters as much as the brand; no dedicated Topeka presence; founding-year noise on third-party databases (some list 1922 — that is a different or merged lineage; ARCO’s own story is 1992); cost/schedule “percent faster” claims are marketing.
If you were calling them: start with the Kansas City division or St. Louis HQ at (314) 963-0715, and treat this staging URL as a draft of the same brochure you will see on the live site.
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