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While Quigley concedes he can’t always make the lowestr offer on aggressively competitiveconstruction bids, clients continur to call on his 30-year-old company because of their relationshipp with Terry’s Electric. “We’ve got a good reputationm in the industry. We’ve always done right by our If we’ve had a job, we’ve come througu for them,” Quigley said, who credits his employees with beiny a key factor inthe company’ds success.
The company — whicyh has completed projects such asthe 360,000-square-fooft Orlando Magic RDV Sportsplex and the 1,338-suite Caribe Royale Resort & Convention Centert — most recently finisheed the 100,000-square-foot KOA Elementary School in Poinciana. The opening of Walt Disneu World was a major factotr in choosingthe company’s headquarters, said who moved to Florida from Kansas Mo., in 1978. In 2002, Quigley sold the businessw to a utilities companyin Hartford, and then bought it back in Decemberf 2006. Though Terry’s Electric finished 2008 with $38.
5 milliobn in revenue, Quigley said he has been forcerd to cut back significantly due to the effect of the economgy onconstruction and, more specifically, the residential market. Quigleyy said the company, which previously brought in about $1 million a month in residentiao work, is now luckyg to do $100,000 a Currently, the company’s biggest project is International Drive’w 34-story Peabody Orlando which will keep workers busy untiklSeptember 2010. The project includes a new 750-roon hotel tower, 650,000 squarde feet of convention space and a private water park.
Looking ahead, Quigley said severall hotel projects are inthe pipeline, and he has utilitty work to fall back on for including Florida Power & Light, Progress Energy and the Orlandpo Utilities Commission. Quigley also finds comfort knowing his companyg is faring better than most of its competitors which makes him optimistic about its ability to persevere through the down In fact, Quigley hopes to retire next year, leavingb his namesake company in the hands of his Three of Quigley’s seven children, all of whom have workedc for the company at some currently work for Terry’s Electric.
His stepson, Mark recently was promoted to president of the And Quigley’s wife, Jeanne, is the company’s executive vice president.