WAILEA, Hawaii — It might be hard to think about work when you’re on Maui — one of the most remote islands in the Pacific. The breezes are warm, the ocean waters are very blue and the palm trees impossibly tall. The U.S. coast is almost 2,500 miles away.
DETROIT —The Great Recession hit a lot of construction companies very hard. Workers were laid off and projects were left half-finished and out of money. Glenn Parvin, owner and president of Detroit-based Custom Architectural Sheetmetal Specialists Inc., knows all about it.