C&L Development Corp. redefines structural slab construction in Colorado
As a family-owned company of C & L Development Corp., we strive to create our own kind of beauty at every opportunity. The company is a structural concrete contractor for buildings that eventually find their places on the Colorado landscape.
We take pride in knowing that our work is a form of creativity and beauty in our 45 years of business.
C&L delivers strong, lasting, mission-fulfilling, chip-resistant concrete that complements the eventually completed buildings. We also offer customized decorative concrete services. This approach to laying concrete incorporates techniques and materials applied during the pouring process or after the concrete is cured. The result is concrete that looks like brownstone, brick, fossils, wood or tile. It’s a popular choice of homeowners wanting unique textures and hues for walkways, patios, countertops and floors.
Any and all concrete has a creative aspect to it." -Carl Boone Jr.
Carl Boone Jr. leads the Sedalia-based company, benefiting from a strong family foundation. The company was founded by his father, Carl Boone Sr. His son, Justin, serves as Vice President. Justin’s 11-year-old son, Garrett, already has his own hardhat and nail bag, as well.
While Carl Sr. worked in concrete for 60 years, the current iteration of the family business started in 1975.
Carl Sr. founded the company on values still alive today: attention to detail, integrity and expertise. He passed on his values and skills to his son, who followed in his father’s footsteps. In high school, Carl Jr. found work adding patios to homes and widening driveways. In 1975, he launched his own company with a colleague named Larry Brock. Calling the new company Brock & Boone Concrete, the pair focused on residential concrete. They renamed the company C & L Development in the early 1980s.
In time, Carl Jr.’s son, Justin Carl Boone, showed interest in the family’s concrete business, too. Justin found himself working on concrete projects at about age 12 or 13. After high school, Justin ventured out on his own, entering the growing field of decorative concrete and eventually starting his own business — Boone’s Custom Concrete — in 2009 with that focus.
Even then, Justin’s real desire was to be in business with his dad. That all became reality when Carl Jr. contacted him in 2015. The conversation was brief. His dad had more work than he could handle, and he asked Justin to join him.
“Since I was a little boy, I wanted to be partners with my dad,” Justin says. “I told him I would call back with my answer in four hours, and four hours later a partnership was formed.”
Today, Carl and Justin guide 45 employees. The teams pour an average of between 200 and 300 yards of concrete daily. Family history could be repeating itself again. Justin’s son, Garrett, is ready and waiting in the wings to join the company, as well.
