A.P. Construction

A.P. Construction is a family-owned, third-generation Philadelphia contractor that Amedeo Petrongolo Sr. started in 1954 by laying pipe in the city’s cobblestone streets. It’s grown into a heavy-civil and building firm with a New Jersey office in Blackwood, doing utility, marine, site, transportation and foundation work alongside general building, construction management and design-build across the Delaware Valley. Its headline job right now is the Schuylkill Crossing, a roughly $15 million, 1,000-foot swing bridge for walkers and cyclists that opens Nov. 13 and ties Grays Ferry Crescent to Bartram’s Mile. It sits on a 1901 railroad pier. The project ran years behind schedule, but movable bridges over working rivers rarely go quickly.