Keep your brand and your people
Your company name stays on the trucks, the jobsite signs, and the bids. Your team and leadership stay in place.
A partnership of leading commercial masonry companies
We back the people who build great masonry businesses.
Cornerstone Masonry Partners brings together leading commercial masonry businesses. Partners keep their local brand and leadership while gaining the scale, capital, and support of a platform built for long-term growth.
Grow · De-risk · Build value
01Why Cornerstone
Owner-operators, not private equity.
Cornerstone is a collaboration among masonry owners who share a mission, values, and a long-term purpose. We partner with regional leaders who care deeply about their teams, customers, and communities.
Take chips off the table
Realize value from what you've built while keeping meaningful ownership and a share in what we build together.
Gain scale and support
Capital, buying power, and shared back-office support, so you can spend more time on crews, customers, and craft.
Great businesses.Better people.Built together.
02How It Works
Keep your company. Gain a platform.
Partners keep running their companies under their own names and leadership. Cornerstone provides the shared infrastructure that regional masonry businesses rarely get on their own, so owners can grow, de-risk, and build long-term value.
| Partnering with Cornerstone | Traditional sale | |
|---|---|---|
| Your brand | Stays on the trucks, the website, and the jobsite sign | Often rebranded or absorbed |
| Your team and leadership | Stay in place, with room to grow | Frequently restructured |
| Your ownership | Take chips off the table and keep a meaningful stake | Typically cashed out entirely |
| Support behind you | Finance, accounting, recruiting, technology, sales and marketing, and purchasing | Varies widely |
03Who We Partner With
Leaders in commercial masonry.
We focus on companies that keep existing buildings sound: repair, restoration, maintenance, and rebuild work that owners need year after year.
A
Repair and restoration first
Most of the work is repair, restoration, maintenance, and rebuild on existing buildings, not ground-up construction.
B
Recurring customer relationships
Repeat work from property managers, institutions, and owners who call you first when their buildings need attention.
C
Founder- or family-owned
Built by owners who care what happens to their name, their crews, and their customers.
D
Skilled crews, strong safety record
Experienced masons, a culture worth protecting, and a safety record owners and GCs trust.
Work our partners do
- Tuckpointing & repointing Repair
- Parapet, lintel & shelf angle repair Repair
- Facade restoration Restoration
- Terra cotta & cast stone restoration Restoration
- Historic preservation Restoration
- Facade inspections & assessments Maintenance
- Cleaning, sealants & waterproofing Maintenance
- Wall & chimney rebuilds Rebuild
- Select new construction Brick · CMU · Stone
04The Partnership Path
Four steps, at your pace.
Every conversation is confidential, and there's no obligation at any step.
- STEP 01
A conversation
We talk about your business, your goals, and what you want your next chapter to look like.
- STEP 02
Getting to know you
We spend time together reviewing the business and aligning on your long-term plan, whether you want to keep building or are planning an exit, to make sure it's the right fit, both ways.
- STEP 03
Partnership terms
We structure a partnership that lets you take chips off the table while keeping meaningful ownership.
- STEP 04
Building together
You continue leading your company or transition to your leadership team, with Cornerstone's shared resources and fellow owners behind you.
05Leadership
Operators and investors, side by side.
Cornerstone is backed by Village Partners Group, a Dallas-based firm that partners with founders of services businesses.
A proven model
From the team behind Chimney Collective
Village Partners Group founded Chimney Collective, a partnership of leading masonry and chimney companies. Cornerstone brings the same model to commercial masonry.
chimneycollective.com ↗7Partner companies
15Cities served
7/7Partners are founder-owned
Co-Founder, Village Partners Group
Rhett Hogan
Operating executive and investor. Most recently CEO of Heartland Infusion through its successful exit to IVX Health. Previously at Houlihan Lokey and Courage Capital Management, and six years as a cardiology and critical care pharmacist and pharmacy services manager at HCA. PharmD, Lipscomb University; MBA, Vanderbilt University.
Co-Founder, Village Partners Group
Branson Tibbs
Investor and operating executive across residential and commercial services. Previously an investor at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners focused on middle-market control investments, and an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey focused on mergers and acquisitions. NYU Stern School of Business, magna cum laude.
Talk with the partners
Reach out.
Whether you're planning a transition or looking for a partner to help you grow, we'd welcome a conversation. Every conversation is confidential.