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MOUNT PLEASANT TOWN HALL

McKnight since January 2004, when he graduated from

Georgia Southern University with a degree in Building

Construction and Contracting. The learning process got

underway immediately.

“McKnight starts people in the field, on the front

lines,” he explained. “The real education begins on the job.”

For Blumenthal, that education got underway at Fort

Benning, where his job was to help build the passenger

processing facility and do some work on the chapel.

From there, he returned to Statesboro, home of Georgia

Southern, where McKnight was renovating the library,

adding 104,000 square feet of space and refurbishing

four floors of the building. The project had been bid by

Blumenthal’s brother, Bobby, who worked for McKnight

Construction at the time, and Brooks Blumenthal

eventually served as project superintendent.

The library was originally built by McKnight

Construction in 1972.

Blumenthal, a native of Augusta, where McKnight has

its headquarters, pointed out that as one of three full-time

project managers, he is responsible for bidding all his

jobs. Unlike many construction companies, McKnight, a

family-owned company that operates like a family, doesn’t

have full-time estimators.

“Our Estimating Department is comprised of our

project managers. We all wear many hats, from estimating

to project management, which makes our company

unique,” he stated.

While Mount Pleasant’s Town Hall was under

construction, Blumenthal was managing several projects,

including a middle school and an elementary school in

Atlanta; renovating Coastal Carolina University’s Brooks

Stadium in Conway, South Carolina; and Rollings Middle

School of the Arts in Dorchester County. He had recently

put the finishing touches on three other schools in the

Summerville area: Sand Hill Elementary, Alston-Bailey

Elementary and Alston Middle.

Blumenthal pointed out that many of the

subcontractors who helped build Mount Pleasant’s Town

Hall are local, based either in Mount Pleasant, Charleston

or other nearby locations. He added that being from out

of town can be an advantage for a general contractor. For

The windows at the front of Town Hall open into the main courtroom.

Photo by Brian Sherman.