Mount Pleasant Town Hall Magazine

29 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com | www.MPTownHall.com MOUNT PLEASANT Town Hall to 15 projects at a time, all in various stages of completion, and, true to his hands-on approach to building, McKnight tries to visit each of those construction sites every two weeks or so. Weather permitting, he’s been keeping up with the Town Hall project by flying into the Mount Pleasant Regional Airport in a single engine plane. With a total of around 35 employees, McKnight Construction leans heavily on its subcontractors, choosing local companies to work with when possible. “We don’t have that many people working for us, so we sub a lot of our work,” he explained. “We have a good relationship with our subs. We nurture them, and we match up the best one for the job so our clients are better served.” “The Mount Pleasant Town Hall project was a very long process, working with the architect and the town to make sure we had the best subs and got local people involved,” he added. “We tried to get local people to bid on the project. That was one of the goals of the town – to use local, qualified subcontractors. It took six to eight months to develop our workforce and the pricing to fit with what the town wanted and to be competitive.” McKnight Construction’s job entailed more than simply building the new Town Hall. To keep the town up and running while work on the new building was underway, McKnight had to relocate fiber optic cable, a generator, the data room and electrical services and tear down half of a building so the town could continue to use the other half. When Mount Pleasant employees moved into their new home in July 2017, McKnight remained at the site to raze the two buildings remaining from the old Town Hall complex, build a park and a new parking lot and install the pad for what eventually will be the new gymnasium. McKnight Construction Company completed work on Royall Elementary School in Florence, South Carolina. And what’s so special about the new Town Hall, according to the man who runs the company that built it? “The flow of the building. The people of Mount Pleasant will find it to be a lot more convenient, and the Police Department and business departments will all be under one roof. All the town’s services will be in one place,” he concluded. TH McKnight Construction Company helped build the Dorman High School and Early College Career Center in Spartanburg.