The company is owned by W. Kent Stow, who has a background in the aerospace industry, and Kinney Swisher, who has been involved in the stone industry since 1985, working for firms such as Sayegh, G&L Marble and Arc Stone.
Although East Coast Granite Works is actually five years old, it has been processing stone for three years, with a year of planning and research and a year to build and equip the facility. Locating the right building for granite block processing took six months, as the owners investigated 30 warehouses before finding one that would fit the needs of the company.