Thirty-seven years ago in 1988,  Kristoffer A. Gonzalez and Ignacio B. Gonzalez, Sr. got their start in construction from a request to mitigate a smoked-out home. Soon after the job was completed, requests began to flow for  residential exterior/interior  painting and renovations. In 1988, the father/ son team decided to form a company under the name Gonzalez General Contractors. One job request came in1993 requesting the team to do a stucco job for a new custom house at King’s Crossing in Corpus Christi, TX. It was agreed and and the company expanded in scope to offer exterior  3-step stucco with color system, which was popular in coastal regions at that time.  

It was during the winter of the King’s Crossing days (1993-1995) that the company got the request from a California based contractor to do a stucco and exterior insulation finish system (EIFS) job for Best Western Hotel located on Laredo Street in San Antonio, Texas. 

From the beginning on through 2001, the company never bid for work. Property owners would stop by the construction site, inspect our work, and offer their job to us. Our price per square foot was offered, the owner usually agreed without any back and forth, and the owner disclosed the immediate start date. These were the days of the handshake agreements.  Traditional bidding for work was foreign to the Company at the time. 

The Best Western job was a three-story hotel and had six- month hard deadline. It was decided after the Best Western job completion to incorporate the company. On March 13,1997 San Antonio New Age, Inc. was formed, and Ignacio G. Gonzalez Jr. was invited into the company. The Company focused its services as a CMU structural wall and EIFS/Stucco subcontractor for private commercial construction market. The Company immediately grew in scope and responsibility and offered its services in the hospitality, retail, and government market for brand names Hilton, Residence Inn, Woodfield Suites (La Quinta), Hampton Inn, Best Western, Albertsons, HEB, Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, San Antonio International Airport, Lackland Air Force Base, and Medina Base.  

The Company grew in revenue from 1995 to 2001 from CMU Structural, and Stucco/EIFS projects for hotels along the IH 35 Corridor beginning at Laredo Street, San Antonio, TX to Oltorf Street, Austin, TX.
 
The September 11, 2001, Trade Tower terror attacks and the onset of the Stock Market shut down in real time forced the Company into immediate financial crisis.  Monies tied up in projects were lost and never recouped. Current projects were locked down from the onset of investor pullouts and contract for upcoming projects disappeared. The Company was in financial dire straits and left  The Company idle in 2002. 

In 2003 the Company restarted as a general contractor for project owners DaVita Dialysis, Lasik Plus, and as a CMU structural wall contractor for Walmart. From the 2004 to 2007 the company operated in limp mode and never regained its heyday. And the again, on September 29, 2008, the company hit another financial crisis from the stock market crash in September 2008. 
 
From the fourth quarter 2008 to 2017, the company did not participate in any market and 2018 the corporate structure was amended, and  the Company took the name New Age General Contractors, Inc. and focus its services under civil construction. Ignacio B Gonzalez decided to step down and remained with the Company as a consultant and Ignacio Jr. went on his own to focus on residential construction. Kristoffer’s son Anthony G. Gonzalez was brought aboard as V.P. and Project Manager. 

Through Anthony’s direction and through his steady contract awards in street, and bridge construction from 2020 through 2023, it was decided to retire the New Age GCs name and rebrand the company under Red Dirt Road and Bridge Corporation. The Red Dirt in the company name reflects the phrase “red dirt flows through my veins” together with the East facing (the morning sun) Red Bull is the call to home in Sweetwater, TX and the West Texas region where Kristoffer is from. 
 
RED DIRT RBC services The State of Texas in Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction, Traffic Lights,  Demolition, Excavation, Underground Utilities, Reinforced Concrete Pipes, Concrete, Paving, Trucking, and Rigging.