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SLSCO or Sullivan Land Services Co. is a Galveston, Texas based construction company that participates in large American government projects. It is owned by Sullivan Interests, founded by brothers John, Billy and Todd Sullivan in 1995. [1]

SLSCO built Texas International Terminals, a deepwater port. [1]

SLSCO and DRC Emergency Services (DRC, also a Sullivan Interests company) lobbied and worked in New York after Hurricane Sandy on a $290 million contract. [2] They also had a $375 million contract for work after Hurricane Maria in New Orleans and did work rebuilding in Haiti after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. [1] DRC did cleanup work in Texas following 2017's Hurricane Harvey, including a $40 million debris removal contract. [3]

SLSCO received contracts to build sections of the Trump wall, including the $145 million for the first new sections completed in Hidalgo County, Texas, $147 million to replace sections near San Diego, California, and $61 million for a section in New Mexico. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

In 2020, SLSCO received a contract to build field hospitals at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center near Queens, New York City, and another at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The Billie Jean King hospital was designed to reduce pressure on Elmhurst Hospital Center. The field hospital had capacity for 350 beds and was open on April 10, 2020. Built at the cost of $22–52 million, it only saw 79 patients before closing a month later. The $21 million cruise terminal hospital had 750 beds, but didn't open until May 4, nearly a month after New York City's coronavirus peak; hospital populations had fallen in half. It was closed weeks later without being used. [9] It paid doctors $900/hour with overtime, and paid nurses $250 for standard hours. On April 27, the facility was converted to a 100-bed facility and used to hold houseless people who were quarantining. It finally closed on May 13. [2] SLSCO also did pandemic work for Florida on a no-bid $283 million contract, building overflow hospitals. This included reopening and operating the Pan American Hospital in Miami. [10]

SLSCO employs lobbyists. For instance, in February and March during the COVID-19 pandemic, they were spending $15,000 per month to lobby New York City's emergency management department. [9]

SLSCO received a contract in 2022 to build a 1000-bed tent shelter for migrants in Bronx, New York City. [11]

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  2. 1 2 Rosenthal, Brian M. (21 July 2020). "This hospital cost $52 million. It treated 79 virus patients". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Powell, Nick. "Galveston construction firm awarded defense contract to build border wall". Chron. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  4. ↑ Timmons, Heather; Rohrlich, Justin. "What happened to the border wall money Congress already gave Trump?". Quartz. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  5. ↑ "Trump Favorite Gets $7M to Build Just 800 Feet of Border Wall". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "Border Wall Construction Project to Begin in Texas". U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  7. ↑ Kate Morrissey (1 June 2018). "Border construction begins in San Diego". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  8. ↑ Manny Fernandez; Mitchell Ferman (8 November 2019). "Under Construction in Texas: The First New Section of Border Wall (Published 2019)". The New York Times . Retrieved 8 December 2020. A Texas construction company, SLSCO, was awarded the $167 million contract for work at the sites in Hidalgo County last year, and is also contracted with the federal government to do other border-wall projects.
  9. 1 2 "Brooklyn Field Hospital Shuts After $21 Million Construction - And Zero Patients - BKLYNER". BKLYNER. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "Florida made $283 million in deals because it feared COVID-19". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  11. ↑ JOE ANUTA; SALLY GOLDENBERG (30 September 2022). "Mayor's migrant tents being built by Trump border wall contractor". POLITICO. Retrieved 30 September 2022.


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