From Concrete Dreams to Multifaceted Success: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Servando Requena By Brian Hoover, Senior Editor / Photos contributed by: San Luis Equipment Rental
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he California construction and equipment rental industry is ripe for the taking. All you need to do is believe in yourself and seize the opportunity. Sometimes when you open a door, others seem to open by themselves with opportunities you may have never thought of before. This is a story about one such entrepreneur who did just that by starting one business that led to several others, and he is just getting started. From laborer to concrete construction business owner Servando Requena began working as a laborer for a general engineering construction firm in 1999. Within a year, Requena was already a foreman and things were going in the right direction. By 2008, the Great Recession had arrived, and the company he worked for did not have much work, so Requena moved on to work for another concrete 18
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Top: Servando Requena, Owner/President, San Luis Equipment Rental and San Luis Concrete Corp. Above: JCB JZ141 excavator placing riprap in flood control channel in Irvine.
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