McKinstry: Seattle firm is nation’s "green tech" central – New office opened in Missoula, Montana

A two-story gray building in Seattle’s industrial area has become literally the nation’s “green technology” central. And McKinstry Co. http://www.mckinstry.com , the firm housed there, has even put together the plan for how the Obama Administration will spend the portion of stimulus dollars destined to help the country speed the move to green.

In the year since then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama visited McKinstry’s Seattle headquarters as the backdrop for a press conference on environmental change, the facility has been mentioned repeatedly by now-President Obama. And McKinstry has become a regular port of call for state and local elected officials seeking to discuss green initiatives.

McKinstry’s surge into the national limelight is all very amusing to David Allen, the ebullient vice president of the family-owned firm (his brother, Dean, is CEO).“Eighteen months ago, we weren’t on any elected official’s radar screen,” he chuckles. “We’re so non-political, we didn’t even make an effort to know any elected officials.” Now the company has been singled out more than 20 times by Obama in speeches relating to green issues, starting with his now oft-quoted view of McKinstry’s leadership in energy efficiency as a “model for the nation.”

Written by Mike Flynn

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Tim Tolman

Business Development Manager

McKinstry

http://www.McKinstry.com

Office: (406) 203-4615

Cell: (406) 544-8530

[email protected]

Tim was formerly with CTA Architects and is very enthusiastic about McKinstry’s opportunities in Montana.