“His reputation did a lot to put us in a position to be successful. A lot of the alternative delivery work that we do, CMAR, CMGC, or progressive design-build, we’re good at because of the culture that my dad built here. He was really all about partnering, putting the project first, and finding ways to build it better.”


– MYERS AND SONS PRESIDENT CLINTON MYERS


that was reportedly the first-of-its kind incentive from Caltrans. In 2007, the company was lauded for


its work reconstructing the MacArthur Maze near Oakland after it was badly damaged by a big rig explosion. The repair was completed in just 17 days, earning Myers a $5 million bonus and yet more praise from public officials, not to mention from a grateful traveling public. Tat same year, the company helped


repair a deck of the San Francisco-Oak- land Bay Bridge in the well-publicized Bay Bridge Temporary Bypass Structure Design-Build project. Over Labor Day weekend in 2007, Myers crews rolled in a 350-foot-long seismic retrofit section of the bridge just before the Yerba Buena Island Tunnel. Two years later, they cut away a 288-ft. portion of the existing truss bridge and replaced it with a new span to form a connection to the detour.


Te Bay Bridge project was completed


with the removal of a one-third mile long section of the existing Bridge to makes room for the new eastern span tie-into the existing tunnel. Te project was featured on the television show “World’s Toughest Fixes.”


A Self-Made Millionaire Tose were just a few of the projects that marked the high points of C.C. Myers’ remarkable, nearly 70-year career in con- struction. It was a career path that allowed him to pull himself up by his bootstraps to become a self-made millionaire and construction industry legend. Growing up poor in Highland, CA as the second oldest in a family of 13 children, Myers was a farmer’s son who worked the fields each day during his childhood. He left home at age 16, armed with a 10th grade education and a drive to make something of himself. He moved


to Long Beach and found work building houses and school projects. He often passed a bridge construction


project on his way to other jobs and, as described in his official obituary, stopped by that jobsite one day where he was hired by the contractor. Within a week, Myers said he knew “building bridges would be my life.” He moved from apprentice carpenter to foreman by age 19, taking the test to become a certified foreman at just 20. By the early 1970s, C.C. Myers had


made his way to the Sacramento area. He started MCM Construction, a highway and bridge-building company, with his brother Richard Myers and Jim Carter. In 1977, he moved on to found his own company, C.C. Myers Inc., in Rancho Cordova. Te company quickly became known


for delivering quality highway and bridge projects and emergency infrastructure


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