Roberts, Dana — CW Driver Cos. | Los Angeles Business Journal

Roberts, Dana — CW Driver Cos

Chief Executive

CW Driver Cos.

THE LATEST: In December, C.W. Driver broke ground on a $50 million, 108,000-square-foot language arts and social science building at Orange Coast College that is expected to be completed in summer 2021. The project capped C.W. Driver's centennial year. The company also broke ground on two more school building projects and completed three others last year.

BACKGROUND: Roberts' first job as a teenager in 1970 was alongside his father, a supervisor at C.W. Driver, and he formally joined the company four years later. Roberts obtained an ownership stake in the company in 1981 and assumed full ownership in 1987 when the founding Driver family relinquished its control. Among the firm's notable local projects:&renovation of the historic Warner Bros. Theatre in downtown&s Jewelry District, the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church and the Jonathan Club's Beach Club in Santa Monica.

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