Merry Christmas from our family to yours! It has been a wonderful year and we’re so grateful we got to share it with you. As we head into 2025, we look forward to continuing to be of service. Of all the things we build, we know the most important are the relationships we have with our friends, our clients, and our community. 

As the Smyrna Bulldogs face off against the Brentwood Bruins Friday in the Class 6A playoffs, we’re urging everyone to cheer on our home team.

One of the highlights of the season for Dow Smith Company has been the opening of the new field house, which was a longtime dream of Dow’s.

Join us on a poignant episode of “From The Ground Up,” as host Taylor Loyal sits down with Jason Surratt, City President and Senior Vice President at Volunteer State Bank and a past president of the Smyrna Rotary Club. This week, Taylor and Jason explore the integral roles that banking and community service play in building and supporting the fabric of Smyrna.

Don’t make a million-dollar mistake. In construction, even minor errors can be costly. And they add up quickly if you’re not careful. We know you’re excited to start building, but rushing to the ground-breaking ceremony before you’re ready will catch up with you later. It’s critical in any project to get all of your ducks in a row.

Since 2006, The Journey Home has been a resource for unhoused and disadvantaged people in Rutherford County. Several years ago, the organization’s leaders recognized that its current facility would not be able to serve the future needs of our community and they began dreaming bigger.

This week, Journey Home team members and community leaders broke ground of a two-story, 20,000-square-foot facility in Murfreesboro. Dow Smith Company is honored to be the design-builder for the project.

For the ninth consecutive year, Dow Smith Company has been named a Certified Best Christian Workplace by the Best Christian Workplaces Institute. This certification is based entirely on a survey of our employees.

Dow Smith Company has been certified by the Best Christian Workplaces Institute longer than any other business in the state.

We recently completed work on 1 of 19 Cocktails and Raw Bar. The new bar and restaurant, located at 103 N. Maple Street in Murfreesboro, is open now. 1 of 19 is owned by Shawn and Christy Hackinson, the owners of the popular downtown Murfreesboro restaurant The Alley on Main. The Alley on Main is known for its steak, seafood, and scratch-made pasta dishes.

When the Hackinsons decided to open a cocktail bar around the corner from The Alley on Main, they knew exactly who to call.

We recently completed some big projects and we have even more big projects in construction. So it seemed like a good time to remind everyone that we do small projects, too.

For many years, we received calls from clients who needed small projects completed but they couldn’t get anyone to show up and make that work a priority. So, our Service and Small Projects Division was created to accommodate those requests.

Do you want a facility that serves your clients, represents your mission, and fits within your budget? Then you’ve got to start with the right design.

It makes sense that the contractor building your facility should help you design it.

Passion, Caring, Hustle, Detail. These are our Core Values and they are the foundation for everything we do at Dow Smith Company. 

In May, we held a banquet for our employees and gave awards for each Core Value as well as the Gary Grisham Service Award in memory of one of our greatest servant leaders.

Back in 1992, Dow Smith started his company with a little truck and a big dream.

“I was working out of a red Chevy S-10,” Dow remembers. “That was my office and my sole piece of equipment.”

This month, as Dow Smith Company celebrates 32 years in business, we’re thinking back to the beginning.

Thirteen years ago, Adam Comer walked through the doors of Spring 2 Life Recovery needing help.

Today, he’s the CEO.

As the Christian-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation center grows, Adam is working with Dow Smith Company to build a 26-bed facility on its 10-acre McMinnville campus.

Twelve years ago, when Dow Smith’s son was playing football for Smyrna High School, they walked into an opposing team’s weight room and Dow was impressed by the facility and all of the things that were available to that team’s players. But he also had a chip on his shoulder because he didn’t understand why the athletes at Smyrna High didn’t have everything they needed to be successful.

Many of the tools that make a project successful aren’t the kind you can fit in the drawer of a workbench or in the bed of a pickup truck. At Dow Smith Company, we’re a well-trained team that plans out and executes every step of the design-build process. But our company is about even more than that.

Next month will mark a milestone as we complete construction on the ninth and tenth buildings at Seven Oaks Business Park. 

These buildings will open nearly 20 years after local real estate icon Bob Parks began to envision flex office space in Smyrna, which was mostly unheard of in Smyrna and Rutherford County back in 2005. 

This year, Dow Smith Company CEO Joey Rhyne celebrates 20 years with the company.

He recently talked about the highs and lows of the past two decades in an interview on our From The Ground Up podcast.

For Joey, the best part of working at Dow Smith Company is the people.

Back in 2009, we were honored to build Parkway Baptist Church’s facility on Lee Victory Parkway in Smyrna. The nearly 15,000-square-foot project included a worship hall, administrative offices, and ministry education space. Over the years, we’ve kept in touch with the folks at Parkway Baptist and as the church grew, they needed more space. We were honored again to be of service. We recently completed a 7,725-square-foot addition to the church that includes new classrooms, a new all-purpose room, and a remodel of their office area. 

Construction is among the most dangerous industries in America, according to the National Safety Council.

“There are a lot of things that can go on with construction each and every day that can put our workers at risk of getting hurt,” Safety Coordinator Jason Tigg says on the most recent episode of our From The Ground Up podcast

Dow Smith Company has been in business since 1992. We’ve learned a lot about what to do and what not to do.

What we’ve found over the years is that the traditional method of construction—where the client hires a design team on their own and then brings it to general contractors and takes a low-bid approach—doesn’t work.

Not all of our clients need a brand-new, ground-up facility. Sometimes they simply need a minor renovation or an office build-out. But they need more than just a handyman with a hammer.

Our Service and Small Projects Division was created to accommodate those requests.

It’s not uncommon for people to want to lose weight, save money, and quit bad habits. What’s less common is for people to set goals and stick to them.

On the latest episode of our From The Ground Up podcast, Dow Smith Company Director of Well-being Holley Potts discusses what you can do to create practical New Year’s resolutions—and achieve them.

There’s a problem with having a design that includes every single thing you can dream of: It’s often impossible to afford.

On the latest episode of our From The Ground Up podcast, Dow Smith Company Partner and CEO Joey Rhyne explains why determining your budget early on is so important and why the Design-Build Method can help prevent costly mistakes.

It’s the Thanksgiving season. And I love Thanksgiving. I try to practice and express thankfulness and gratitude daily. Some days I do better than others.

It has been my experience that gratitude begins in our hearts and then pours into our behavior. And when we behave in a grateful manner, a healthy sustainable harvest of abundance returns.

Our core values—passion, caring, hustle, and detail—are the foundation for the work we do every day at Dow Smith Company. But did you know there's a story behind each one of our core values?

On the latest episode of our From The Ground Up podcast, Dow explains how our employees played a role in helping us determine our core values and how those values guide us in our relationships with each other, our clients, and ourselves.

When Murfreesboro Medical Clinic leaders cut the ribbon to open their new facility off of Veterans Parkway on Thursday, it marked the beginning of a new chapter for MMC and the end of another project for Dow Smith Company.

After some time off, the Dow Smith Company podcast “From The Ground Up” has returned with Chief Marketing Officer Taylor Loyal as the new host.

The podcast, which will be released twice a month, will feature clients, friends, and employees of DSC, including our Visionary Dow Smith, and our CEO Joey Rhyne.

Friday, August 25th finally arrived! It may have been warm but the sun was shining! It was the day we could use our new Outdoor Amphitheatre for our first House Celebration of the school year. Our stage showcased a banner for each of the six houses, a bright red carpet, and music that was blaring the song Celebration. Staff members danced with students as the YMCA song was playing.

Want to help local nonprofits, honor veterans, connect with the community, and check out some cool cars – all while eating delicious fish? Mark your calendar for 5 p.m. Saturday, September 9 and plan on attending Smyrna Rotary Club’s 21st Annual Wings Of Freedom Fish Fry & Classic Car Cruise In.

When North Boulevard Church of Christ opened its new West campus this month, it was nearly a decade in the making. After the campus existed in a portable church environment for nine years, Dow Smith Company was honored to build its new 25,000-square-foot facility on Burnt Knob Road in Murfreesboro. 

For the eighth consecutive year, Dow Smith Company has been named a Certified Best Christian Workplace by the Best Christian Workplaces Institute. This certification is based entirely on a survey of our employees.