Kraus-Anderson

Sponsorship packages are selling quickly! Secure your sponsorship this month for maximum visibility (and to secure your player spots!)

https://krausandersoncommunityfoundation.org/

Your sponsorship at our upcoming Tournament will help us prevent su***de and bring awareness to mental health with LIVIN Foundation and PrairieCare Fund

We’re proud to support Time on the Water, a Minnesota nonprofit dedicated to providing veterans and first responders with outdoor experiences that support healing, connection, and well-being!

A huge thank you to our industry partners who joined us in backing this impactful organization:
Braun Intertec Careers
B&D Concrete Masonry
Custom Drywall
Mulcahy Nickolaus
Parkos Construction
Wells

Your support helps make these opportunities possible for those who have given so much in service to others!


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An amazing bird's eye view of the City of Burnsville, Minnesota - Municipal Government Fire Station No. 1, which KA completed work on at the end of 2021!

Burnsville Fire Station No. 1 Flythrough Opened in 2022, Burnsville Fire Department's Fire Station No. 1 boasts groundbreaking safety advancements designed to provide a better response to the reside...

Happy Safety Week! 👷 All week, Kraus-Anderson will be hosting presentations on various topics related to safety in the construction industry, both in the field and in the office. Today's topics: confined space entry and distracted driving. Jobsite leaders will lead field employees in discussions on topics like demolition, personal fall protection, leading edge and mental health/the importance of sleep, while office leaders will lead discussions about office security, cyber security, ergonomics and mental health/the importance of sleep.

A special thank you to our gold sponsor for our 2025 KA Sporting Change Pickleball Tournament!

https://krausandersoncommunityfoundation.org/

This event is made possible by our sponsors and communities who show up to help us prevent su***de and bring awareness to mental health with LIVIN Foundation and PrairieCare Fund!

New blog out now! 🚨 Check out the details of Kraus-Anderson's
work on the Healthcare Center project.
Link to read: https://www.krausanderson.com/blog/project-spotlight-riverwood-healthcare-center/

Between 1949 and 1951 Kraus-Anderson built or substantially altered no less than ten K-12 school buildings. This fact is especially notable since the total number of school buildings in KA’s portfolio before that, from 1897 until 1948, was close to zero. KA built many academic buildings for colleges and universities in that time, but not much in the K-12 sector. The reason for this sudden interest in building schools was all about demand: WWII curtailed new construction projects (like schools) while the population was surging. By 1950 schools across the US were bursting at the seams with students. Factors outside of WWII and birth rates also contributed to a booming market for school buildings. Suburban flight, Cold War, and changes in teaching philosophy may have contributed, but school buildings have become larger and more complex since 1950, so Kraus-Anderson didn’t just work on a bunch of schools 75 years ago, we’ve been building K-12 schools ever since. The image of a brand new (in 1950) addition to Minneapolis’s Cyrus Northrop school is from the Norton and Peel collection at the Minnesota Historical Society, and the picture of children crowding a school bus window is also courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.

A special thank you to our gold sponsor Hunt Electric for our 2025 KA Sporting Change Pickleball Tourney!
https://krausandersoncommunityfoundation.org/
This event is made possible by our sponsors and communities who show up to make change in our world and we are forever grateful to them for it!

PrairieCare Fund LIVIN Foundation

Congratulations to Christy Fletcher on being the March Core Values Award winner! The KA Core Values Award is presented monthly to a KA employee, nominated by their peers, business partners and clients, for their representation and practice of KA’s core values: integrity, commitment, teamwork and value people. Read more about Christy and this award at: https://www.krausanderson.com/blog/christy-fletcher-wins-the-march-2025-core-values-award/

In 1908 Kraus-Anderson’s founder J.L. Robinson built a “dry cleaning house and storage facility” for the Gross Brothers at 88 10th Street, near Nicollet Mall. More fanatical historians of Minneapolis might recognize the Gross Brothers as the G in G&K Services. A result of the merger between the Gross Brothers and Kronicks, G&K sold uniform apparel and other services to businesses across the US and in Canada until they were purchased by their rival Cintas in 2017. The building is better known as the headquarters of Schmitt Music, who occupied it from 1940 until 2001. When the urban renewal mania for razing downtown buildings created some awkward site lines, the Schmitt family decided to brighten up their bare wall with a music-themed mural. This once bare wall became an international celebrity when it was chosen as a backdrop for Prince’s first professional photoshoot. After Prince’s untimely death, the mural became a pilgrimage site for his many superfans. There were fairly recent (2021) plans to develop the adjacent lot, but the shifting downtown real estate market has preserved, for now, our view of the iconic mural. The image of the Schmitt Music headquarters with a fifth story being added is courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.