Mamon Powers News Today

Business news and events around Northwest Indiana

Photo caption: Michael Jackson's birth house in Gary Indiana (credit: Wikimedia/Victor Grigas)

Means Manor, a neighborhood of brick bungalows nestled around Gary Roosevelt High School, still retains much of its luster in a city that wages a daily battle with decay and neglect. Block after block of sturdy little homes and well-kept lawns represent the enduring legacy of trailblazing Gary contractor Andrew Means who became one of the most successful Black developers in the country at a time when segregation was a way of life. Today, a Means Manor resident is leading a campaign with Indiana ...

The Obama Foundation released its annual workforce report citing the organization is on track to meet its workforce and diversity goals for construction.

Lakeside Alliance is a joint venture between Powers & Sons Construction Company, UJAMAA Construction, Inc., Brown & Momen, Inc., Safeway Construction Company, and Turner Construction Company. “Our primary mission is to be transformative,” says Kelly Powers Baria. “We want to leave the construction landscape different than when when we first began.”

From David Robert Lewis’ era to Eric Richardson’s, generations of Black Boilermakers have held each other up and built on one another’s successes.