J.M. Thompson Company
About
J.M. Thompson Company is a general contractor headquartered on East Chatham Street in Cary, and it has been building in North Carolina since 1921. Work runs to commercial, industrial, and institutional projects for both public and private clients.
Around town the name is on Downtown Cary Park. Elsewhere the company built the Wilmington Convention Center, the Paramount Luxury Condominiums in Raleigh, and renovations at Broughton High School. The company marked its hundredth year in 2021, and it is still family-owned, with the fourth generation in the business since 2016.
What to know
- The firm is licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
- John Marvin Thompson, a machinist by trade, founded the company in 1921.
- He had moved to Raleigh from Bahama, North Carolina, for a supply-company job.
- Hal Alexander Thompson joined the business in 1946.
- Contracts include design-build, guaranteed maximum price, CM at risk, and lump sum bids.
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