Matt Blaylock This is Me

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1. 1. www.thebizpress.com

   www.thebizpress.com/news/stori - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/10/2008   Last Visited: 2/11/2008

   "This time last year I was going so fast I couldn't keep up with the work," said Matt Blaylock, a spokesman at Oldcastle Precast Utility Vault in Fontana. "Now it's been a complete 180, I'm bidding on jobs that I wouldn't have a year ago."
   
   Oldcastle specializes in precast concrete, building structures out of concrete and shipping them to the client.
   
   The company constructs underground vaults for clients such as Verizon and Southern California Edison, Blaylock said.
   
   Oldcastle boomed in the late 1990s when California environmental laws forced service station owners to install double-wall fuel tanks to safeguard against oil leaking into ground water.
   
   But the need for expansion has slowed dramatically due to the downturn in the housing market, he said.
   
   According to the Construction Industry Research Board, only 213 single-family building permits were filed in December 2007 compared with 707 permits in December 2006.
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   Generally when the housing market slows, demand for supporting infrastructure such as strip malls and supermarkets increases, Blaylock said.
   
   "Once you have the housing, if 20,000 people move into the neighborhood, schools, supermarkets and strip malls are needed to support these people," he said.
   
   But that has not been the case in the current market.
   
   "We're in February, I haven't seen the infrastructure keep up with housing," Blaylock said.
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   "We're waiting for the state to put out millions of dollars," Blaylock said.
   
   Earlier this month, Gov. Schwarzenegger pushed for the speedy release of $29 billion in unallocated funds from the 2006 infrastructure bonds.
   
   "Listening to what's happening on the federal level, we think it's probably going to start turning around toward the end of this year," Sheets said.
   
   "When I started in 1993, we were just coming out of a turn," Blaylock said.

2. 2. LocationContacts

   www.oldcastleprecast.com/Oldca - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/1/2005   Last Visited: 11/1/2005

   Matt Blaylock
   
   Outside Sales
   
   matt.blaylock@oldcastleprecast.com

3. 3. LocationContacts

   www.beta.oldcastle-precast.com - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/9/2005   Last Visited: 9/9/2005

   Matt Blaylock
   
   Outside Sales
   
   matt.blaylock@oldcastleprecast.com