Grit makes concrete.
MORE GRIT MAKES BEAUTIFULLY POLISHED SURFACES.
No one worked harder than our dad Dominic Colossale, who established his concrete business in 1954, two years after emigrating from Naples, Italy to New Britain, Connecticut via the famed S.S. Andrea Doria and Ellis Island.
Dom Senior was all determination and bootstraps and “never let them tell you you can’t.” These days that’s called “grit,” an especially fitting word for a guy who broke concrete with a sledgehammer, loaded it into his pickup and unloaded at the dump by hand until he’d saved enough for a down payment on a dump truck and back hoe.
We like to think our generation has smoothed most of Dom Senior’s legendary rough edges. We know we’ve stayed true to his spirit of courage, generosity and hard work. Today, every project we undertake, whether heavy highway construction or decorative hardscapes or any kind of sitework in between, starts with grit and ends with polish.
Pictured at left are Colossale brothers Bob, Dominic Jr., Carmine and Michael — Principals and Owners of Colossale Siteworks. (Dom Sr. is operating the backhoe).
Dom Senior in 1979 overseeing the downtown sidewalk replacement project for the Town of West Hartford.
