Marous Brothers Construction

Marous Brothers Construction is a general contractor and construction manager in Willoughby, Ohio, east of Cleveland. Chip and Scott Marous founded it in 1980, and it works from 36933 Vine Street. The company is organized into groups for construction management, design-build, multi-family housing, special projects, carpentry and interior finishes, and site work. Housing is the core, covering affordable, senior, student and market-rate buildings, with historic preservation, hotels, healthcare and education jobs alongside. No headcount is published. On the Woodhill Homes Redevelopment in Cleveland, Affordable Housing Finance lists Marous Brothers as general contractor for Woodhill Station West, the first phase, with City Architecture as architect. We couldn’t confirm its role on later phases from published sources.

Chip and Scott Marous founded the firm in 1980, and it operates from 36933 Vine Street in Willoughby, Ohio. The company describes itself as multi-generational and award-winning, built on fine craftsmanship, integrity and uncompromising quality — and notably does not use the phrase family-owned, so take the multi-generational description at face value rather than reading more into it.

The structure is the useful part. Work is organized into named groups: Construction Management, Design-Build, Special Projects for fast-track scopes, Multi-Family Housing, a self-performing Carpentry and Interior Finishes Group, and a Site Group handling civil work in house. Two of those are self-perform, and that is unusual at this size. Carpentry and interior finishes are the trades that determine whether a renovation finishes on time; site work is what determines whether it starts on time. Owning both removes the two most common sources of schedule slip from the subcontractor market.

Sixteen markets are listed, with housing clearly dominant: affordable, market-rate, senior and student housing all appear, alongside automotive, commercial office, cultural, education, healthcare, historic preservation, hotels and hospitality, industrial, infrastructure and civil, mixed use and retail, public sector, and religious.

The project list shows the range and the geography. 3rd & West in West Lafayette, Indiana is a five-story LEED-certified student housing development serving Purdue. Hotel Cleveland was a renovation of more than $93 million into a Marriott Autograph Collection property. Porsche Beachwood is a 65,000-square-foot dealership for Penske Automotive Group. The Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit was a 32-story, $112 million historic renovation, and the Hyatt Regency at the Arcade in Cleveland was a landmark restoration and adaptive reuse. Two large historic hotel conversions in two states is a specific and hard-won competence.

Recognition in 2025 came from two bodies: one Building Excellence award and four Craftsmanship awards at the CEA Building Excellence & Craftsmanship Awards, plus a NAIOP Northern Ohio Award of Excellence naming Porsche Beachwood New Construction Project of the Year. The firm has also been listed as a Northeast Ohio Top Workplace from 2022 through 2026.

Headcount, safety awards and company certifications are not published; the firm says it has served clients in Ohio and around the nation.