The Las Vegas branch is an expansion from the original Take It For Granite location in San Jose, CA, and it was opened in 1999 by entrepreneur Lawrence Krulee and some investors. According to Krulee, the transition wasn’t as easy as they had expected. “For the first five years, we basically starved,” he said. “We were seen as outsiders in the ‘good old boy’ town of Vegas. Our original thinking was, ‘If we build it, they will come,’ but no one came. It wasn’t until five years later, in 2005, that decent work started to come around for us.”
Take It For Granite Too attributes much of its recent success to the latest technology available on today’s market, which includes the company’s newest addition - a SawJET™ from Northwood Machine Manufacturing Co. of Louisville, KY - which according to Meyer, has enabled the company to increase productivity and greatly improve quality. “By combining two units into one machine, you get the best of both worlds,” he said. “You get the speed and efficiency of a bridge saw, and the accuracy and intricacy of a waterjet.”