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Scenic Ridge Apartments is an apartment complex in Verona, Wisc. featuring multiple buildings with underground parking. Mid-States Concrete partnered with Encore Commercial to provide Hollowcore Plank, Precast Beams, and Precast Columns for three bu…

Scenic Ridge Apartments is an apartment complex in Verona, Wisc. featuring multiple buildings with underground parking. Mid-States Concrete partnered with Encore Commercial to provide Hollowcore Plank, Precast Beams, and Precast Columns for three buildings.

What are you looking forward to in 2021? We’re just two weeks into the new year, which means there are still plenty of opportunities for us to partner with you on 2021 projects.

First, let’s talk about the elephant in the room – 2020. Last year took the entire world by surprise, and the manufacturing and construction industries worked very hard to keep projects moving. With the experience of 2020 behind us, we are well-equipped to navigate 2021.

Like many teams, our team has developed safety protocols that work to keep your team and our team members safe and able to work and provide for our families. And while encouraging our team members to stay home when feeling ill - to protect themselves and other team members - has resulted in some staffing fluctuations, our team has stepped up and is dedicated to keeping production moving.

So, what projects are you working on this year? How can we be of assistance, to help ensure your project is successful?

Since 1946, we have partnered with our Customers to innovate, design and build meaningful buildings in which to live, work, learn, and play. You deserve the best, which is why we focus 99-percent of our energy on you, and only one percent on the competition. We know you could work with any number of precasters and we’re always grateful when you choose to partner with us.

According to organizations we have worked with, a good project partner encompasses a few things, like open communication (whether it is good or bad news), flexibility, reliability, quality, early involvement/upfront coordination/design assistance, problem solving skills, looking out for the best interest of the client, and, of course, fair price.

We strive to be the best partner possible on all your projects. In addition to our Face-to-Face Solution - which includes project assessment and planning, project strategy, single source installation, and completion confirmation - we have also focused on the Customer experience we provide to our partners, and have set expectations for what we deliver at every point of contact with you, our Customers.

The Best New Year Tradition

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Years ago I attended a New Year’s Eve party with a friend’s family. Upon entering the house, there was a table set up with slips of paper and pencils. Every guest was asked to take a slip of paper and write on it one thing they want to let go of from the past year.

The goal was to pick one thing that was holding you back and write it down. Then, shortly before midnight we all brought our slips of paper out into the cold and stood around a fire pit set in the driveway. On the count of three, we all dropped our papers into the fire, symbolically letting go of whatever it was that was holding us back before the start of the new year.

Then we counted down to the new year, exchanged our traditional hugs and kisses and sang the beloved Auld Lang Syne. Every January 1 offers the ability to start fresh. What are you going to let go of prior to the new year? What will you no longer allow to hold you back?

- Stephanie McCord, Marketing Specialist

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

‘Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

This is my favorite time of the year. I love getting together with family and friends (even if it looks a little different this year), shopping for and wrapping Christmas gifts, baking holiday goodies to share, listening to Christmas music, and watching Christmas movies. I love the joy people seem to genuinely feel this time of year, as we’re reminded of all the good we have in our lives.

This Christmas season has been exceptionally wonderful as I have an almost three-year-old son. Anyone with a child knows what a great age this is for Christmas. He is so happy, and so excited for Santa. To see his eyes light up when he looks at the Christmas tree, or checks out the twinkling lights hanging from houses as we drive around, makes my eyes well-up (I’m sentimental and emotional, it happens). He is so excited to unwrap and read a new Christmas book each night (a tradition we started last year), and he can’t stop talking about leaving cookies and milk for Santa. I’m glad that this seems to be the year he’ll start unwrapping his own gifts.

And right on the heels of Christmas is the New Year. A new year means a clean slate, a fresh calendar/planner, new beginnings. I personally love the “restart” the new year offers. I’m a big fan of resolutions and really took some time to think about what I wanted to achieve in 2021. Unfortunately, 2020 didn’t go exactly as planned, but you know make plans, God laughs. Luckily, the new year (and beyond) can be anything we want it to be. The truth is, we can all make our lives be whatever we want them to be, if we can only find the courage. I, for one, am choosing courage.

- Stephanie McCord, Marketing

Best Christmas movies ever

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“Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” - Zuzu Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s a Wonderful Life
is my favorite Christmas movie of all time (the black and white version; not a fan of the digitally-restored one in color). It’s the one movie I looked forward to on cable every year (I was well into adulthood before it dawned on me to purchase the DVD), and as my dad’s favorite Christmas movie, too, we’d watch it together. It was our thing. The first year I didn’t live with my parents for Christmas, my dad called me to let me know what night it was slated for cable so I didn’t miss it.

As a kid, my parents made the nights Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, and Frosty the Snowman family movie nights. As a slightly older kid, we enjoyed The Santa Clause and The Santa Clause 2 (we never did get in to The Santa Clause 3). Home Alone was another family favorite.

As I got older, I found an appreciation for Miracle on 34th Street, and loved Love Actually (controversial opinion, I know). Christmas Vacation and Elf are great for the laughs, and A Charlie Brown Christmas is a mainstay.

Currently, I am loving the made for TV Christmas movies (think Lifetime & Hallmark). They are so cheesy and happy and just wonderful for the holiday season. They may all have (roughly) the same plot, but it’s a formula that works. At the end of the day, I just want to put my toddler to bed, make a mug of hot chocolate, and wrap Christmas gifts while a city girl returns to her small hometown and finds love during the holidays.

What about you? What are some of your favorite Christmas movies? What are you watching to get you in the spirit of the season?

- Stephanie McCord, Marketing