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Southern Bleacher
Experience You Can Trust · Est. 1946
Est.1946
Southern Bleacher Construction Company
The entity that would one day grow to be the largest bleacher manufacturer in North America is founded in Van Buren, AR.
1949
Van Buren, AR
1954
Southern Bleacher Co. to Graham, TX
1977
First Large Plotter
Purchase of first large plotter for designing grandstands, stadiums, and arenas.
1978
Welding To Bolted-Up Structure
Innovative move for SOBCO with the first time to weld to a bolted-up structure.
1985
Jo Ann Geurin
Jo Ann Geurin, daughter of Jim Geurin, named President of Southern Bleacher Company. She held this position until January 1, 2016.
1986
First Use of AutoCAD
First time to implement the AutoCad program at SOBCO – this is the program we still use today.
1993
Press Boxes
HUB Machine & Tools started building press boxes.
1994
Boston College
First job with Interlock Decking.
1996
Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, TX. Largest grandstand ever built at one time, with 150,000 seats.
1997
California Speedway - Fontana, CA
1998
Irwindale Speedway - Irwindale, CA
1999
Crew Stadium - Columbus, OH
2000
Charlotte Motor Speedway
“Ford Tower”
2000
Southern Methodist Stadium - Dallas, TX
First job with Interlock 2000+ Decking.
2001
Barron Co. Fairgrounds - Rice Lake, WI
2002
Ohio State University
Jesse Owens Stadium – Columbus, OH
Est.2004
University of Georgia
Jack Turner Stadium – Athens, GA. Second curved roof structure that SOBCO has built, first was Texas Christian University...
2005
International Jobs
Spruce Meadows, Calgary, AB
2007
Cotton Bowl - Dallas, TX
2007
Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
2009
Oroville High School - Oroville, CA
2009
Red Bull Park - Harrison, NJ
2011
TCF Bank Stadium - Minneapolis, MN
2012
United State Tennis Association
Court 17 – Flushing, NY. First job completed with SPS.
2014
University of Houston - Houston, TX
2014
Butler University - Indianapolis, IN
2015
Wrigley Field - Chicago, IL
2016
Garret and Wyatt Pettus
Garrett Pettus - President, Southern Bleacher Company, Inc. Wyatt Pettus – President, Southern Bleacher Holdings, Inc.
2016
Texas A&M University - College Station, TX
2016
Texas Tech University - Lubbock, TX
2021
