Dolese Bros. Co.

Dolese Bros. Co. is an Oklahoma City supplier of ready-mixed concrete, crushed stone and sand. Four Dolese brothers started the business near Chicago in 1902. Today its plants, quarries and sand operations serve Oklahoma, and it keeps a rail yard in Fort Worth. It employs more than 1,000 people in Oklahoma and runs its support center on North Oklahoma Avenue. Dolese is supplying the concrete for the Continental Coliseum, Oklahoma City’s new arena for the Thunder, where the Flintco-Mortenson joint venture started pouring elevated decks on Oct. 12, 2026. The city now pegs the project at about $1.016 billion, and the arena is due for the 2029-30 NBA season.

The company predates Oklahoma statehood, and the sequence explains why an Oklahoma City aggregates business carries a Chicago-era name.

John Dolese, father of the four brothers, ran Dolese and Shepard near Chicago with partner Jason H. Shepard, a contracting business that also operated one of the largest quarries in the country at the time. In 1902 his sons William, John, Henry and Peter started Dolese Bros. Co., originally building streets, sewer facilities and other public works around Chicago. William left early, leaving the company to his three younger brothers, who moved it from contracting into operating railroad-owned ballast plants and quarries along main lines in Kansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Quarries were already running in Oklahoma Territory before statehood in 1907.

In 1910 the company bought land at NW 13th and 14th in Oklahoma City for an office and a crushed stone distribution yard. That site became its first ready mix concrete plant and, in 1943, the corporate headquarters.

Today the operation spans more than 60 facilities: over 38 ready mix plants, 14 aggregate facilities and a masonry supply warehouse. Ready mix locations run from Oklahoma City and Tulsa out to Ada, Anadarko, Atoka, Bixby, Chickasha, Clinton, Del City, Duncan, Elk City, Guthrie, Hugo, Idabel, Marlow, McAlester, Moore, Piedmont, Shawnee and Yukon.

Delivery reliability is treated as a product feature rather than a service promise: central dispatch hubs, GPS and automated loading systems, with ordering through Dolese Direct and Truckast. Quality is backed by an in-house lab with trained and certified quality control technicians, and engineers on staff.

Dolese partners with the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association on its Build with Strength programme. Featured projects on its own site include Devon Tower, Boone Pickens Stadium, Canton Dam, the Chesapeake Campus, Riversport Rapids, the John James Audubon Bridge and the Arbuckle and Western Oklahoma wind farms.

Ordering lines are split by product: ready mixed concrete in Oklahoma City on 405-235-1515, Tulsa on 918-437-6535, and crushed stone and sand on 405-297-8224.