{"id":3636,"date":"2019-10-14T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:58:53","slug":"celebrating-hispanic-heritage-month-building-a-construction-company-from-the-ground-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/celebrating-hispanic-heritage-month-building-a-construction-company-from-the-ground-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Building a Construction Company from the Ground Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the RTC is celebrating the many contributions of our employees, contractors, and community partners.<\/p>\r\n<p>Juan Mendez is the owner and president of MCON Inc., a construction and underground utilities company. He embarked on a business venture at the height of the economic recession in 2008. He now leads a successful company that has delivered on major construction projects in the valley including the Raiders Stadium and Lake Las Vegas.<\/p>\r\n<p>The company is a proud member of the National Contractors Association, National Association of Minority Contractors, and the Latin Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\r\n<p>Watch the video below to learn how Juan built a company from the ground up with a $10,000 investment and how he is giving back to his community.<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe class=\"lazyload\" title=\"Hispanic Heritage   Juan Mendez\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271100%27%20height%3D%27619%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201100%20619%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271100%27%20height%3D%27619%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pj1U7u5-OB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the RTC is celebrating the many contributions of our employees, contractors, and community partners. Juan Mendez is the owner and president of MCON Inc.,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46,109,26,47],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-diversity","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-small-businesses","tag-special-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}