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Toscana Corporation Celebrates 35 Years on Nantucket Island By Jay Adams CEG CORRESPONDENT
No man is an island, but excavation and site work on the scenic, island of Nantucket has shaped one man — Carl Jelleme, president of Toscana Corporation, which will celebrate its 35th anniversary this summer. Incorporated in 1979, Toscana Corporation has evolved into a company that provides a comprehensive package of earthwork services and products on an island south of Cape Cod offering many coastline challenges. Jobs vary in size — from an average of $10,000 to $150,000 with large site work projects up to a million plus, according to Jelleme — and in scope, from The company has evolved one division at a time, changing according to the needs excavation to demolition, barg- of customers, a vertical market share and ever-tightening historic, marine and ing, house moving, shoring up environmental restrictions. foundations, satisfying marine and environmental concerns while working on residential crawler loader from his father’s farm in New Hampshire. “I grew up on Nantucket. My dad was a building contracand commercial projects, and much more. Customers range from homeowners, which dot the shore, tor in Nantucket. When we were kids, he bought a farm up to builders, developers (usually general contractors which in New Hampshire. “He bought a backhoe up there, an International agriculhire Toscana for sub work) and municipalities. tural machine, and a John Deere crawler loader 450. He had that up in New Hampshire, on the farm. I had gotten out of Howard, Lydel and the Farm According to Carl Jelleme, Toscana Corporation began college and I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do,” said with his father Howard Jelleme and Lydel Rickard, with one Jelleme. “He was kind of slow with his business at the time. truck to move materials from the mainland to the island. Carl He only had a couple of houses to build. “So, I went to New Hampshire, to get the machinery to Jelleme later bought Lydel Rickard’s share of the company and began an excavation and site work business with one work on those buildings. I took the six-wheeler and a trailer backhoe, a 6-wheel dump truck and a 450 John Deere see TOSCANA page 16
Correction: In the May, 21, 2014, #11, Edition of the New England State Supplement, a spell check caused “JCB Northland” to be misstated as “JCB Northern.” CEG regrets the error. Please see this issue of the Northeast Edition for the correct version of the coverage.