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Stahly Engineering and Associates (SE&A) is a
civil engineering and surveying firm established
in Helena, in 1970 by J. David (Dave) Stahly.
Over the past few years, Byron Stahly, Greg
Benjamin, Jeff Larson and Dan Stahly have taken
over management and ownership of the
corporation. Dave Stahly continues to work with
the company as a Senior Project Engineer. The
services they provide include civil, structural,
environmental and transportation engineering
along with land surveying. They have offices
located in Helena and Bozeman. The firm is
currently staffed with 33 employees (23 in
Helena and 10 in Bozeman).
Prior to their purchase of land on Centennial
Drive in Helena and subsequent construction of a
8,000 square foot building, SE&A had been
operating out of rented space in Helena, which
had become cramped due to the company’s growth.
Not being able to find an existing building for
sale in Helena that would meet their expansion
needs, they entered into a design/build
agreement with Diamond Construction in September
2004. The firm provided structural and site
civil engineering services for their own
building and worked cooperatively with the
builder and architect to complete the project
under budget and on time. SE&A moved into their
newly constructed building in February 2005.
Financing for SE&A’s project was made possible
by First Interstate Bank (Helena) and Montana
Community Finance Corporation’s SBA 504 loan
program. According, to SE&A’s Vice President,
Jeff Larson, the firm “chose the SBA 504 loan
program because of the reasonable down payment
percentage (10%) and the fact that the interest
rate on the loan would remain fixed for 20
years.”
Jack Berry, Vice President at First Interstate
Bank in Helena, says he is proud to work with
Stahly Engineering and Montana Community Finance
in providing an attractive financing package for
his clients. Jack has helped many area
businesses with SBA504 financing projects over
his past 16 years of banking in the Helena
market. Jack states, “The SBA 504 program offers
a way for borrowers to obtain the most
attractive long term fixed rates available.”
Jack Berry
Vice President
First Interstate Bank
3401 North Montana Avenue
Helena, MT 59602
406-457-7171
e-mail
jberry@fib.com
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