We Grew up in the yard
Walt Steelyard Senior bought a forty-foot lot in the Strip District in 1981 with a pickup truck, a welding rig, and a habit of finishing what he started. He fixed cracked foundations for the row-houses on Penn Avenue. He poured pads for the meat-packing plants on Smallman. Word got around.
By the time his son Walt Jr. took over the yard in 2003, the lot had grown to two acres and the work had moved up — full commercial GCs, industrial retrofits, the kind of heavy-spec jobs other builders called impossible. That's still what we do. Same yard. Same name on the gate. Same rule: don't hand back a job you wouldn't sign your name to.
Today, Walt Jr. and his daughter Marisa run the company together. Sixty-four crew. Eight machines. Three foremen who've each been here over fifteen years. We're not the cheapest GC in the valley and we're not trying to be — we're the one your insurance company recommends after the last guy walked off.
Our mission is to deliver structures that outlast their warranty, on schedules we hit, for budgets we hold.
Why SteelYard?
Four reasons general contractors, architects, and developers across the Upper Midwest treat us as their default structural fabricator. Each is supported by documentation available on request.
Single-source accountability
Detailing, fabrication, finishing, and field coordination are self-performed in one facility under one project manager. No subcontracted hand-offs between drawings and delivery.
Certified to the
standard
Detailing, fabrication, finishing, and field coordination are self-performed in one facility under one project manager. No subcontracted hand-offs between drawings and delivery.
Schedules that
hold
Detailing, fabrication, finishing, and field coordination are self-performed in one facility under one project manager. No subcontracted hand-offs between drawings and delivery.
Estimating built for bid day
Detailing, fabrication, finishing, and field coordination are self-performed in one facility under one project manager. No subcontracted hand-offs between drawings and delivery.
Meet the crew
Walt Steelyard Jr.
Owner · Master Carpenter
Took the yard from his father in 2003. Still walks every job at week-three. Won't sign a fixed-bid he hasn't measured himself.
Walt Steelyard Jr.
Owner · Master Carpenter
Took the yard from his father in 2003. Still walks every job at week-three. Won't sign a fixed-bid he hasn't measured himself.
Walt Steelyard Jr.
Owner · Master Carpenter
Took the yard from his father in 2003. Still walks every job at week-three. Won't sign a fixed-bid he hasn't measured himself.
Walt Steelyard Jr.
Owner · Master Carpenter
Took the yard from his father in 2003. Still walks every job at week-three. Won't sign a fixed-bid he hasn't measured himself.
ready when you are
We'll respond to bid-package requests within two business days. Prequalification packets, insurance certificates, and bonding documents are available on the same timeline.