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The Valero Alamo Bowl announced its officers who will oversee this year’s Valero Alamo Bowl and its Community Festival of Events. Mike Yantis, Jr. succeeds Lynette Padalecki as chairman of the Valero Alamo Bowl’s Board of Directors.

A board member since 2010, Yantis is CEO of Yantis Company. Recognized around the San Antonio area as one of the leaders in land development construction, Yantis Company specializes in all facets of civil construction including: excavation, clearing, mass grading, sewer improvements, water improvements, asphalt paving, concrete paving and drainage construction.

This year Yantis Company is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Yantis Company was founded in 1965 by 2007 Valero Alamo Bowl Chairman John Yantis.

“Mike has been an active Board member and a leader of our Philanthropic Committee which will disburse a record $432,500 in local scholarships this year.” said Derrick Fox, President/CEO of the Valero Alamo Bowl. “His passion for our community, scholarships and college football will be invaluable as we continue to grow our game.”

The other officers for 2015 include:

  • Lamont Jefferson, Partner, Haynes and Boone, LLP as Chair-Elect
  • Derrick Fox, CEO of the Valero Alamo Bowl, President
  • Mike Chapman, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Security Service Federal Credit Union, Treasurer
  • Michael Kiolbassa, President, Kiolbassa Provision Company, Secretary
  • The Valero Alamo Bowl also announced the following additions to their Board of Directors: Brandon Logan, SRG Athletics; Dr. Richard T. Steffen, Sports Medicine Associates of San Antonio; Jason Thompson, General Manager at Ancira Nissan.

The game date for the Valero Alamo Bowl will be announced by the end of April. However, persons interested in game tickets can go to www.alamobowl.com to join the bowl’s priority ticket list now to be eligible for this year’s presale.

About The Bowl

The Valero Alamo Bowl is an annual post-season collegiate game played in the 65,000 seat Alamodome in San Antonio.

The 2015 Valero Alamo Bowl kicked off a six-year agreement to match up the #1 teams from the Big 12 and Pac-12 conferences after the College Football Playoff.

This new arrangement delivered the first Top 15 match-up in bowl history as #14 UCLA outlasted #11 Kansas State 40-35 in front of the seventh largest crowd among all of the bowl games and the 5.6 million viewers who tuned into the ESPN broadcast.

12 Young Former Students Honored For Their Accomplishments and Service

Each year, The Association of Former Students’ 12 Under 12 Young Alumni Spotlight recognizes a dozen Aggies who have graduated within the past 12 years for their business accomplishments, civic or military service, philanthropic efforts, and outstanding representation of Texas A&M University’s core values of excellence, integrity, leadership, loyalty, respect and selfless service. The 12 Under 12 Young Alumni Spotlight was conceived by the Young Alumni Advisory Council, a selected body of younger former students who advise The Association’s staff on ways to better connect with the hundreds of thousands of recent graduates of A&M.

Among the 2015 honorees are a physician, a veterinarian, a dentist, a photographer, an engineer, attorneys, business leaders, servicemen and a veteran, but all 12 of them are much more than their career achievements, their advanced degrees and their impressive awards.

They are also mentors, volunteers and selfless servants, dedicated to the betterment of Texas A&M, their communities and the world. You can read much more about each of these impressive young men and women at tx.ag/12u12. We congratulate these fine young men and women on their accomplishments, and we thank them for their service and for their outstanding representation of Texas A&M and the Aggie Spirit.

Mike Yantis, Jr. ‘02

As he has advanced to president and CEO of the Yantis Co. land development construction firm, Yantis has managed more than $800 million in construction infrastructure projects and led remarkable growth that landed the company on the Aggie 100 list repeatedly. He’s chairman this year of the Valero Alamo Bowl, having previously been a scholarship committee member and served on the board of directors. In his chairmanship of the philanthropic committee last year, he said, “We worked on a plan to get the scholarships up to $410,000 a year” from $200,000, a goal he was passionate about that benefited San Antonio high school students. Yantis is a Silver-level donor to The Association’s Century Club, supports A&M athletics and with his father established a Business Development Honors endowment at the Mays Business School.

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Today marked the official groundbreaking of Yantis Company’s newest residential project, Esperanza. Yantis will perform all of the site work and utilities for phase one, estimated at $14 million dollars. Esperanza is owned by Lookout Development Group, Inc. and was designed by Kimley-Horn and Associates.

Yantis Company COO Arnold Briones expressed the firm’s excitement after today’s ceremony, “This project is one of the largest and most unique jobs Yantis has ever worked on. We’re proud to be the general contractor and eager to get moving and deliver high quality lots to the Boerne community.”

Located on 120 acres, phase one will yield 169 single-family lots. Yantis’ contract includes: 153,000 cy of rock excavation; 51,000 sy of asphalt paving, 12 miles of underground utilities; five detention ponds; and one lift station.

For more information on Yantis Company and our projects, please visit www.yantiscompany.com or call us at 210.655.3780.

In September 2014, Yantis Company was awarded a $12.3 million dollar mass grading and utilities contract for Dollar General’s new distribution center. Located just south of IH-10 on Foster Road, the site spans over 100 acres. The project was designed by Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam (LAN). Yantis is working directly for Dollar General on this project.

Yantis’ contract includes: 370,000 cy of excavation; over 496,000 cy of embankment; 275,000 cy of cement treated pad; 210,000 sy of 12” cement treated subgrade. Yantis is currently installing over 30,000 lf of storm drain, sewer, and water pipe as well as the dry electric package.

The construction of the 1 million square foot pad began 9/2/14 and was completed on 12/5/14, 10 days ahead of schedule with 12 days of rain delay.

For more information on Yantis Company and our projects, please visit www.yantiscompany.com or call us at 210.655.3780.

Yantis Company is proud to announce CEO Mike Yantis, Jr. has been selected as one of the recipients of Texas A&M’s 12 Under 12 Young Alumni Spotlight. Each year, The Association of Former Students recognize 12 Aggies who have graduated within the past 12 years for their outstanding accomplishments in business, civic service and philanthropy, while representing Texas A&M’s core values of excellence, integrity, leadership, loyalty, respect and selfless service.

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Yantis Company today announced that Executive Vice President Arnold Briones has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer. Briones, who has been with Yantis Company since 2007, is responsible for the day to day management of the Estimating, Business Development, and Operations Departments. Within the Operations Department he manages over 275 field employees and projects ranging from $250,000 to over $20 million dollars.

“Arnold is a trusted leader who continuously delivers results for our company and top notch service to our clients, “said CEO Mike Yantis, Jr. “ He plays a crucial role in our daily business and has stepped up to new responsibilities previously managed by members of the Yantis family.”

At the end of February, Yantis Company kicked off phase two of Union Pacific’s San Antonio Intermodal Facility in southwest Bexar County. The 10-acre site sits between Old Pearsall Road and IH-35 South and serves as a hub for rail traffic going to Mexico and to the West Coast. Yantis is constructing a four-lane spine road and various utility improvements. Construction is expected to finish in August.

The site work portion of the project includes: 3,000 cy of 10” concrete pavement and 2,300 tons of 4” asphalt treated base. Drainage improvements include: a 9,000 sy earth channel, a 29,000 sy pond and several concrete structures throughout the site. Yantis is also installing sanitary sewer and water.

As part of this project, Yantis is self-performing the concrete paving. Yantis is one of the few turnkey civil contractors that can self-perform concrete paving. Other recent paving jobs by Yantis include: University Way (Texas A&M-SA), Sysco Road in Schertz, 36th Street for the City of San Antonio, and the Redifuel facility. Yantis also recently completed the Runway 3/21 Extension at the San Antonio International Airport.

Serving as the civil engineer for this project is CEC. 4-M Realty brokered the project for Union Pacific.

For more information on Yantis Company and our projects, please visit www.yantiscompany.com or call us at 210.655.3780.

In mid-February Yantis Company began the sitework portion of BV Carrier warehouse. Located on Applewhite Road, the site will include a 513,000 sf tiltwall industrial facility with a 302,000 sf storage pad, plus 45 acres of associated sitework and a turn lane. Yantis is working on this project for FA Peinado Construction and BoDen, LLC. It is owned by Tom Leiser of Bandera Ventures and was designed by Pape-Dawson Engineers.

The project, which is being run on an expedited schedule, includes 408,000 cy of excavation and embankment. Yantis is currently running ten scrapers to handle the schedule along with a massive embankment crew. In the grading phase alone, Yantis has 25 personnel onsite working seven days a week.

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For more information on Yantis Company and our projects, please visit www.yantiscompany.com or call us at 210.655.3780.

The Yantis Family is proud to announce the newest equity partner at Yantis Company, Executive Vice President Arnold Briones. For the first time in 38 years, the Yantis’ welcome a partner outside of the Yantis Family. Mr. Briones recently purchased stock in Yantis Company and will serve as a partner along with J. Mike Yantis,

Matthew Yantis and Mike Yantis, Jr. “Arnold has been a huge asset for us the past six-plus years, we felt it was the right time and he was the right person to bring into our ownership group,” said J. Mike Yantis. Yantis Company Founder John Yantis echoed his family’s thoughts saying,

“I have known Arnold for years and there are very few people that work as hard as him. We’re thrilled he is on our team and our family is delighted to have him as our partner.”

Mr. Briones, who has been with the firm since 2007, currently supervises the company’s Estimating, Modeling, and Survey departments. Arnold is also heavily involved in the Operations Department and Business Development. Prior to coming to Yantis Mr. Briones was the Vice President of Land Development for Pulte Homes. He also has experience as a design engineer working for Carter & Burgess and Pape-Dawson in the past.

The Yantis Family is proud to announce the newest equity partner at Yantis Company, Executive Vice President Arnold Briones. For the first time in 38 years, the Yantis’ welcome a partner outside the Yantis family.

alamo-bowlThe Valero Alamo Bowl announced its officers who will oversee this year’s Valero Alamo Bowl and its Community Festival of Events. Pat Frost succeeds Randy Cain as chairman of the Valero Alamo Bowl’s Board of Directors.

A board member since the bowl’s inception and Chairman of the organization in 2003, Frost joined Frost in 1984 and was promoted to President in 1993. Frost is a devoted civic leader who has memberships in dozens of professional and civic activities.

Pat Frost has been a tireless advocate of the Valero Alamo Bowl since our inception and we are delighted he will be our first returning Chairman,” said Derrick Fox, President/CEO of the Valero Alamo Bowl. “Not only is Pat a role model of civic participation, his passion for college football and enthusiasm for the bowl will be invaluable as we continue to grow our game.”

The other officers for 2013 include:

  • Lynette Padalecki, Vice President, Corporate Planning & Analysis of H-E-B, as Chair-Elect;
  • Derrick Fox, CEO of the Valero Alamo Bowl, President;
  • Mike Yantis, Jr., President, Yantis Company, Secretary/Treasurer

The Valero Alamo Bowl also announced the addition of John Colglazier, Jr. Vice President of Colglazier Properties Inc.; John Eadie, Founder & Managing Director of Covenant Multifamily Offices, LLC; Casandra Matej, Executive Director of the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau and Steve Seago, Vice President of Sales of Genesis Network Telecom Services.

This year’s Valero Alamo Bowl will kick off on Monday, December 30, 2013 at 5:45 p.m. CST in the 65,000 seat Alamodome. The game will match-up the #1 selection from the Pac-12 against #2 selection from the Big 12 after the BCS picks.

Tickets for this year’s game are available on www.alamobowl.com.

About The Bowl

The Valero Alamo Bowl is an annual post-season collegiate game featuring the #2 Pac-12 selection after the Rose Bowl and #3 Big 12 pick after the Fiesta and Cotton Bowls.

Last year a standing room only crowd of 65,277 attended the 2012 Valero Alamo Bowl to watch Texas’ 31-27 win over Oregon State marking the game’s fifth sellout in the last seven years and the seventh game in the last eight where the outcome wasn’t decided until the final two minutes.

The game generated $40 million in total economic impact based on direct visitor spending of $23.4 million from the 33,580 out-of-towners who visited San Antonio last December, according to a survey conducted by Strategic Marketing Services and SportsEconomics.

The game earned a 4.8 rating meaning five of the last eight Valero Alamo Bowls now rank among the Top 15 slots for non-BCS bowls in ESPN history in terms of average household impressions.