Source: College of Engineering
Larry Brinker Jr. stands in front of Detroit’s Henry Ford Health Detroit Pistons Performance Center. The Brinker group helped construct the center. Credit: Marcin Szczepanski, U-M College of Engineering.
Larry Brinker Jr. stands in front of Detroit’s Henry Ford Health Detroit Pistons Performance Center. The Brinker group helped construct the center. Credit: Marcin Szczepanski, U-M College of Engineering.
When Larry Brinker Jr. (BS CEE ‘01) drives through Detroit, he passes buildings that tell the story of his life.
Ford Field. Book Tower. Comerica Park. Little Caesars Arena. The Motown Museum expansion. These landmarks shape the city’s identity—and in each of them, Brinker’s company left its mark in the glass, steel and structure that brought the projects to life.
“To see them being reimagined and renovated was incredibly meaningful for me and our company,” he said.
Brinker is a U-M civil and environmental engineering alum and president and CEO of the BRINKER group of companies. The company was founded by Larry Brinker Sr. in 1989 as a small construction firm in Pontiac, Mich. Today, it has grown into the largest Black-owned construction contractor in the United States, a network of companies specializing in construction management, drywall, glass and glazing, flooring and electrical work.
