Port Authority inspector Bon Dean long ago fingered Granger Trucking as a minority front company.
Mayor Frank Jackson won kudos earlier this year for helping broker a deal with University Hospitals that was supposed to give more work to black builders. The healthcare giant, which is planning $730 million worth of construction projects over the next three years, agreed to set aside 20 percent of the work for Cleveland residents, 15 percent for minority companies, and five percent for companies owned by women.
Sounds fabulous, right? Finally, after years of being shut-out on job sites, legitimate black contractors would get a piece of this lucrative pie…
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2008.
First of all Independence Excavating did NOT get the UH contract.
LOOK AROUND, over half of these “whitey” in-town business’s don’t have hardly any work in Cleveland, nor the state of Ohio.
So what has been accomplished here? The local contractors now work out of town & the majority of “whitey” workers work out of town(& state). So now we have a bunch of out of town contractors working IN cleveland, so you have now chased away even the employers for minorities! GOOD JOB