Founded by a bricklayer. Built by a city.
Primetime Construction Inc. was founded in 1972 by Anthony "Tony" Marchetti, a third-generation South Side bricklayer who believed Chicago deserved a contractor that put the trades — and the neighborhoods that produced them — at the center of every job.
From a single jobsite trailer on Cermak Road, Tony grew the company one project at a time: a corner storefront in Bridgeport, a parish school in Bronzeville, a new emergency room in Humboldt Park. Every contract was a handshake. Every workforce was local. Every promise was kept.
Five decades later, that founding philosophy still defines us. We've grown from a five-person operation to one of the largest privately-held general contractors in the Midwest, with 4,200 Chicago-area employees and $18 billion in annual construction volume. But the way we work hasn't changed: we hire local, we deliver on time, and we leave every neighborhood better than we found it.
The Marchetti family still owns the company. The ironworkers who built our first office tower trained the apprentices building our newest one. And every project — from a community health clinic to a 92-story skyscraper — gets the same answer when we're asked who's accountable: Primetime is.