We tend to get questions about our company name when our customers want to look for us on 84th Street! Our name actually reflects a sentimental place in our family’s history.

Our parents came to Alaska in 1972, and all three of us (Ryan, Evan, and Dylan) were born and raised here. We had been lucky enough, over the years, to spend some weeks in the summer at our father’s family’s summer home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey.

The home was built sometime in the 1870s and it was about a block from the beach. It was a special place where we spent time with our grandparents and learned why our father loved it so much when he was growing up.

It was also a home that needed constant upkeep and maintenance. We would have a hammer, wrench, trimmer, or paintbrush in our hands for a part of our time there as early as we can remember. We hold early memories of scraping, prepping, and painting the large front porch and trimming the long hedges surrounding that charming home.

When our grandfather aged to the point that he no longer had the energy or desire to spend the time that it took to keep the home up, and our family was unable to go down as often as we wanted to and needed to, the tough decision to sell it was made. It was difficult for our family to let it go, but the proceeds from the sale of that great old home were the funding to start up our 84th Street Construction company in 2006. We are very proud of our name and the history it carries with it.