FLYNN COMPANY INC.

FLYNN COMPANY INC. Articles of incorporation were filed in December, 1932 for the THOMAS FLYNN COAL COMPANY. The company was authorized to engage in the fuel, general contracting, hauling and transfer business. (1) In 1933 Thomas Flynn brought his brother Frank into the business as half owner. Initially they sold and delivered coal in the winter for heating and to fill the gaps in the summer months the type of work revolved around box culverts, curb and gutter, and underground utilities. (2)

In the 1950s with a change in heating fuel they exited the coal industry. In 1968 John Flynn ran the day-to-day operations and refocused the company’s efforts on municipal and private paving. In the 1970s John further branched out the paving efforts and went after Iowa DOT paving contracts. When the recession hit in the 1980s and local work was no longer enough to keep Flynn Co. Inc. John refocused the company again and went into the southern states of Texas, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. (3)

Since the end of the recession, Flynn Co. Inc. worked in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska. In 1997 Jeff and Mike Flynn purchased the company from their father and adapted and molded the company into a leading concrete paving company in the state of Iowa. (4)

The company became a major contractor with projects throughout the Midwest. (5) It also proved to be a leader in bringing new technologies like project machine control for paving and milling. (6)

Awards

   2014    Decatur County, I-35 SBL Interstate Highway
   2013    Hamilton County, US 20 EBL Special Recognition
   2012    Clay County, M27 from Highway 18 North to Dickinson County Line PCC

Overlay Project-Secondary System

   2011    Wayne County, Missouri Route 67 Rural Divided Highway Paving 

Project

   2011    Lee County, US 61 Fort Madison Bypass Divided Highway PCC Paving Project
   2010    Clarke County, NBL I-35 from Decatur County line to US 34 

Interstate Highway Paving Project

   2009    Worth County, US 65 from IA 9 to County Road 105 Interstate/Primary 

Concrete Overlay Project

   2008    Jefferson County, Highway 34 Fairfield Bypass Divided Highway PCC Paving Project
   2006    Buchanan County, County Road C64 Concrete Overlay Paving Project
   2006    Wapello County, Intersection of US 63 and US 34 Special Recognition
   2005    US 34 NW of Danville, Des Moines County Divided Highway PCC
   2004    Dubuque County, Highway 151 State Roads PCC
   2003    Des Moines Airport South Air Cargo Expansion Commercial Airport PCC
   2002    Des Moines Airport, Construction of Runway 5-23 Commercial Airport 

PCC

   2002    Dubuque County 32 New Divided Highway
   1997    Des Moines Airport Terminal Apron Reconstruction Phase 2 Commercial 

Airport PCC

   1996    Dubuque Regional Airport, Runway 13/31 Rehabilitation Airport PCC 

Paving Project

   1995    Muscatine Municipal Airport Runway/Full Parallel Taxiway/Runway 5/23 Overlay Airport PCC Paving Project
   1995    Runway 5/23 Muscatine Municipal Airport General Aviation Airport Pavement
   1994    Ankeny Regional Airport Airport PCC Paving Project
   1988    Seymour Johnson AFB North Carolina, Various Airfield Pavements
   1988    Savanna District, North Carolina, Construction Contractor of the
           year

The 1970 through 1977 Dubuque City Directory listed E 12th St. Ext.

The 1985 Dubuque City Directory listed 1109 S. Grandview.

The 1993 Dubuque City Directory listed 970 Cedar Cross Road.

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Source:

1. "Flynn Company is Incorporated," Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, December 29, 1932, p. 8

2. Flynn Company, Inc. (website), Online: http://www.flynncoinc.com/about/

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. "Flynn Company," Online: http://www.flynncoinc.com/

6. Stocking, Angus. "Better from the Ground Up," Machine Control Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2, Online: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/530ccda5e4b01f735fa71b67/t/54c15da3e4b02cf35ce716e4/1421958563038/MachineControlMagazine_Stocking-BetterFromTheGroundUp_Vol3No2.pdf