LeChase Construction Services, LLC, a construction-management and general-construction firm, announced it has acquired C.W. Brown, Inc. of Westchester County to help boost its growth in the downstate area.

LeChase, headquartered near Rochester, operates several offices in upstate New York, including locations in Syracuse, Ithaca, Binghamton, Corning, Buffalo, and Albany. The firm employs 83 people in Central New York, according to CNYBJ Research, and its Syracuse office is situated at 609 Erie Blvd. West. 

Under the contract terms, which took effect on April 1, C.W. Brown, based in Armonk, will operate as a division of LeChase Construction, with the same workforce and market focus, according to a LeChase news release issued April 6.

The Rochester company didn’t release financial terms.

The combination of the two companies creates a “highly skilled construction company with the size and power to provide outstanding services in the health care, education, industrial and manufacturing, science and technology, and commercial markets throughout the tri-state region,” LeChase contended in the news release. 

The acquisition is designed to help serve the firm’s construction customers in the Northeast with “more offices and more skilled construction professionals who have regional experience and a firm grasp of local resources and conditions,” the firm said. 

LeChase currently employs about 700 people, while C.W. Brown employs about 80, including office and construction employees, LeChase said.

The addition of C.W. Brown is a “natural fit” and “enhances” the firm’s presence in the region, William Goodrich, president and CEO of LeChase, said in the release. “C.W. Brown is a like-minded company with long-standing relationships in similar industries that will help LeChase continue to grow in the Northeast. The management team, staff and field personnel at C.W. Brown are welcome additions to the LeChase team,” said Goodrich.

LeChase’s annual revenues “consistently” average $700 million in building construction, the company said. Besides the New York offices, LeChase also operates facilities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

Founded in 1984, C.W. Brown has averaged about $50 million annually in building construction volume over the last several years, according to the release.

“This announcement is great news for our employees and our customers because it not only increases our ability to take on larger and more complex projects, but we share the same culture and mindset as LeChase, which is rare in the construction industry,” Renee Brown, president and CEO of C.W. Brown, said. “This unification will allow our company to carry on for years and years to come.”

C.W. Brown is a general-contracting and construction-management firm specializing in high-end interior alterations and renovations.