Your operator-led commercial general contractor

Fulcrum Construction was founded in Atlanta in 2003 by CEO and Founder Mike Arasin. Since then, the company has grown into a national commercial general contractor with five regional offices and more than two decades of experience building projects across the country.

Fulcrum has more than 120 employees operating from five regional offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Portland, San Antonio, and Philadelphia. We complete more than 100 projects annually and maintain established subcontractor relationships across the markets we serve.

Our growth has been deliberate. We open offices where client demand supports a permanent local presence and are planning additional offices in growing markets.

Fulcrum combines the resources and geographic reach of a national contractor with the direct involvement and accountability of a regional builder. Each office is led by experienced principals who remain actively involved in operations, client relationships, and project execution.

We intentionally occupy the space between very large corporate contractors, where clients can become one of hundreds of accounts, and smaller local contractors that may not have the resources or geographic reach to support sophisticated multi-market clients. Our model gives clients national capabilities without losing direct access to the people responsible for delivering their work.

Retail has been a core part of Fulcrum's business since the company was founded in 2003. We have completed thousands of projects for national retailers, including ground-up stores, tenant improvements, open-store remodels, relocations, refreshes, rollouts, and multi-location programs.

Our experience ranges from individual flagship and large-format projects to programs involving dozens or hundreds of locations across multiple states. We also build the distribution, warehouse, and logistics facilities that support retail operations.

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Repeat business is central to Fulcrum's model. We are built to serve established retailers, developers, and corporate clients with ongoing construction needs—not one-off projects for smaller operators.

Many of our client relationships span years, multiple markets, and dozens or even hundreds of projects. Our goal is to become a long-term construction partner that understands a client's standards, priorities, and way of working, then delivers consistently as their program grows.

Fulcrum is selective about the projects we pursue. We focus on opportunities where our experience, people, geographic coverage, and operating model give us a clear ability to perform well.

That often means working with established retailers, developers, construction managers, and other sophisticated clients who value communication, accountability, schedule control, and long-term relationships. We are not trying to be the contractor for every project. We want to be the right contractor for the clients and projects we take on.

Fulcrum owns the project, process, and schedule, and takes full responsibility for delivering a successful outcome for the customer, the company, and our employees. That's what playing to win means: we keep our word, take care of our clients and team, and win for everyone involved.