Shamrock Landscaping & Nursery, Inc.

President: Pat Hunsaker
Year founded: 1969
Annual revenue: $9.5 million

Shamrock Landscaping and Nursery, Inc. specializes in landscape construction, wetlands maintenance, erosion control and retaining walls. Shamrock has a 120-acre wholesale nursery. The largest current project is the Millennium Corporate Park, with a construction cost of $640,000.

Family-owned Shamrock Landscaping and Nursery, Inc. had an excellent year in 1998, completing over 100 projects. They include REI at Redmond Towne Center; Stone Meadow apartment complex and Eddie Bauer call center in Bothell; Montebello apartment complex in Kirkland; and a manufacturing plant in Everett for Solectron.

The firm, which now has 120 employees and 20 foremen, typically works as a design/build contractor or part of a design/build team, and selects trees and shrubs from Shamrocks nursery stock.

In addition to the Millennium Corporate Park, largest projects this year include Opus Willows phases one and two; Archstone Community @ Northcreek; Snoqualmie Ridge Business Park and Optiva Building; and Avignon Apartments at Riverpointe.