Harvey Cleary

Harvey Cleary is a general contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas with offices across Texas, Colorado, and the Washington, D.C. area. The builder focuses on commercial office, mixed-use, corporate, and institutional projects, and it’s known for delivering Class A office space in walkable, amenity-rich districts. Harvey Cleary served as general contractor on CityCentre Six, developer Midway’s 19-story, 320,000-square-foot West Houston office tower that finished early and roughly 90% preleased with Dow as anchor. The firm’s project list tracks the flight-to-quality end of the office market, where new construction still leases even as older commodity space struggles.

Harvey-Cleary Builders is a full-service general contractor founded in Houston in 1957, when David E. Harvey, Sr. and Gerald D. Hines started Harvey Construction Company. David Harvey, Jr. and Joe Cleary assumed ownership in 1987, giving the firm its current name. From its Houston base it expanded to Washington, D.C. in 1986, Austin in 2001, and San Antonio in 2007.

The company works as both a general contractor and construction manager, building commercial projects and interior build-outs across those four markets. Over more than six decades it has taken on thousands of projects and built a national reputation for handling one-of-a-kind, complex commercial work.

For owners and developers in Texas and the D.C. area, Harvey-Cleary offers the stability of a long-held, family-succeeded builder with deep local presence in each of its office cities. Its longevity and repeat institutional clientele are central to how the firm positions itself against larger national contractors.