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The M.A. Mortenson Company, more commonly known under its Mortenson Construction brand, is an American construction company based in

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, Minnesota, with 2014 sales of (estimated) $3 billion.

Sports venues

Mortenson is noted as a general contractor that has built numerous sports stadiums and arenas, including

U.S. Bank Stadium U.S. Bank Stadium is an enclosed stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built on the former site of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the indoor stadium opened in 2016 and is the home of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Footbal ...

Fiserv Forum Fiserv Forum (; stylized as fiserv.forum) is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the home of the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team ...

, and

Chase Center Chase Center is an indoor arena in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is the home of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball A ...

. As of 2014, the company had built over 150 entertainment and sports venues in the United States; by 2018, that number had grown to 170, at a valuation of $11 billion, which made Mortenson the second largest sports arena builder in the country; and by 2023, more than 230 such venues had been built, valued at $15 billion. Its most recent completed sports stadium project is the $1.9 billion

Allegiant Stadium Allegiant Stadium is a domed multi-purpose stadium located in Paradise, Nevada, southwest of adjacent Las Vegas. Opened in 2020, it is the home field of the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) and the University of Nevada ...

, home to the

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and

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team, and slated for 2024 is a proposed $1.5 billion ballpark, also in Las Vegas, that will house the relocated Oakland Athletics.

Renewable energy

Mortenson Construction is also active in the field of

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, having started in 1995 with a single wind turbine. In the area of wind energy, Mortenson received the contract for the 300 MW Blackspring Ridge Wind Project in Carmangay,

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, Canada for EDF-EN Canada. Mortenson installed a total of 15,000 megawatts of wind power by 2015. Mortenson built the Alamo 6 Solar and the Pearl Solar fields in Texas, with over 438,000 and 203,000 panels, respectively, atop 1,797 acres of land in

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In 2014, with an addition of 512.9

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solar power Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Solar panels use the photovoltaic effect to c ...

capacity, Mortenson was the second largest US company after

First Solar First Solar, Inc. is a publicly traded American manufacturer of solar panels, and provider of utility-scale PV power plants, supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling. First Solar uses ...

(1,023 megawatts) and ahead of

SolarCity SolarCity Corporation was a publicly traded company headquartered in Fremont, California, that sold and installed solar energy generation systems as well as other related products and services to residential, commercial, and industrial custom ...

( 502 megawatts). One of the largest projects is the construction of the solar power plants Solar Star I and II in

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with a total of 597 MW of output that can generate electricity for 255,000 households.

History

The company was founded in

Richfield, Minnesota Richfield is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. An inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis, Richfield is bordered by Minneapolis to the north, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and Fort Snelling to the east, Bloomington to the south, ...

in April 1954 by M. A. Mortenson, Sr., formerly a vice president with the D'Arcy Leck Construction Co. While with D'Arcy Leck, Mortenson had supervised the construction of several local schools, a veterinary building on the farm campus of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

, and other industrial and commercial sites.

References

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