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John Rohrer Contracting Co., Inc. is a structural-concrete restoration contractor headquartered on Roe Lane in Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas, founded in 1922 by Emil Rohrer and his father John Rohrer. The early firm poured cement work for Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium and an addition to the Quartermaster Depot; a century later the company markets itself as a turn-key concrete restoration and preservation specialist — structural repair, post-tension repair, shotcrete, cathodic protection, FRP strengthening, waterproofing and traffic coatings — with work completed in 42 states and satellite offices in Colorado and Hawaii. The headquarters has stayed in Wyandotte County.

Description

John Rohrer Contracting Co., Inc. — JRCC — is a specialty concrete contractor whose headquarters has been in Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas.12 The company’s present-day work is restoration rather than new pours: keeping existing concrete structures — parking decks, ramps, industrial and institutional buildings — in service while their structural integrity is repaired and protected.1

The company organizes its offering under two headings. Under Restore it lists structural concrete repair, post-tension repair, shotcrete, cathodic protection and FRP strengthening. Under Protect it lists waterproofing, traffic coatings, sealant, sealers and expansion joints. It also sells engineered maintenance programs rather than one-off jobs.1 Its own site claims projects completed in 42 states and marks a hundred-year milestone.1

Two satellite offices carry the work outside the metro: Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and Honolulu, Hawaii.1 The Kansas City office remains the head office and is the one carried in the Wyandotte Economic Development Council’s locally-owned business directory.2

Goods and services

  • Structural concrete repair1
  • Post-tension repair1
  • Shotcrete1
  • Cathodic protection1
  • FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer) strengthening1
  • Waterproofing, traffic coatings, sealant, sealers, expansion joints1
  • Engineered maintenance programs for concrete assets1

History

The company was founded in 1922 by Emil Rohrer together with his father, John Rohrer, and took the father’s name.3 Its early work included cement components for Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium and an addition to the Quartermaster Depot.3 Emil Rohrer was active in the Builders’ Association of Kansas City, serving as its treasurer from 1943, and during the Second World War directed cement works at air bases and ordnance depots in Nebraska.3 In 1938 he commissioned the architect Phillip Drotts to design a house at 4425 Terrace Street as a demonstration of concrete methods in residential construction — the building later documented by the Midtown KC Post as the Emil Rohrer Home.3 Emil Rohrer died on August 2, 1948, at 46.3

Leadership afterwards stayed in the family: Emil’s son Tim Rohrer Sr. led the firm following the retirement of Walter Rohrer.3 The company’s own site marked 100 years of structural concrete restoration and preservation.1

“ — The chain of ownership from Tim Rohrer Sr. to the present has not been documented from any resolvable source, and whether the Rohrer family still holds the company is an open question on this page.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. John Rohrer Contracting — official site — asserts: “100 YEARS OF STRUCTURAL CONCRETE RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION”; turn-key restoration services and engineered maintenance programs; service list under Restore (structural concrete repair, post-tension repair, shotcrete, cathodic protection, FRP strengthening) and Protect (waterproofing, traffic coatings, sealant, sealers, expansion joints); “We’ve Completed Projects in 42 States across the US”; Kansas City office at 2820 Roe Lane, Bldg. S, Kansas City, KS 66103, contact cbarkley@jrcc.build; Colorado office at 4965 Van Gordon, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033; Hawaii office at 1585 Kapiolani Blvd, Suite 1720, Honolulu, HI 96814; copyright 2024. (Fetched via curl 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  2. Wyandotte Economic Development Council — business directory entry, John Rohrer Contracting Company, Inc — asserts: address 2820 Roe Ln., Bldg. S, Kansas City, KS 66103; phone 913-236-5005; named contact Analee Lanio; categories “Locally Owned Business, LOB Cont”; “Since 1922 John Rohrer Contracting has developed professional relationships within the concrete industry.” (Fetched via curl 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2

  3. Midtown KC Post — “The Emil Rohrer Home: A Landmark of Concrete Construction” — asserts: John Rohrer Contracting was co-founded in 1922 by Emil Rohrer and his father John; the firm performed cement work for Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium and an addition to the Quartermaster Depot; Emil Rohrer was treasurer of the Builders’ Association of Kansas City from 1943 and directed cement works at air bases and ordnance depots in Nebraska during the Second World War; he commissioned architect Phillip Drotts to design his 1938 residence at 4425 Terrace Street as a showcase of concrete construction; Emil Rohrer died August 2, 1948, aged 46; his son Tim Rohrer Sr. later led the company after Walter Rohrer retired. This is the primary independent history source and the only one carrying the founder names. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

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On the record — ks.city/registry/john-rohrer-contracting · record updated 2026-08-14