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Showroom interior at Clay Cooley Cadillac in Mesquite, Texas, with new Cadillacs flanking a lounge seating area, built by The Charles Morgan Group

Success story · Construction · Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

The Charles Morgan Group

Now the website is as exact as the buildings

Services
Brand Storytelling & Messaging · Website Design · Photography
Location
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

The summary

What we did, and what it moved.

UPWARD rebuilt The Charles Morgan Group's website as the digital equivalent of its job sites: clean lines, honest materials, everything level. Project galleries, including aerial drone photography of completed work across Dallas-Fort Worth, let the buildings speak for themselves, and the story is told the way owners and developers evaluate a general contractor. In COO Davin Marceau's words, the site finally matches the precision, pride and professionalism of every build.

The engagement

Construction

Services
Brand Storytelling & Messaging · Website Design · Photography
Location
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
In their words · verbatim

UPWARD didn't just redesign our website, they delivered a digital experience that finally matches the precision, pride, and professionalism we bring to every build.

Davin MarceauChief Operating Officer, The Charles Morgan Group

Customer profile

The Charles Morgan Group

Industry
Construction
Location
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

The firm

Their buildings are exact. Their handshakes still mean something.

A commercial general contractor building auto dealerships, retail, and restaurants across Texas. Their buildings are exact; their handshakes still mean something.

Facade detail at Clay Cooley Cadillac in Mesquite, Texas, with white metal panels, entry canopy and Cadillac crest, built by The Charles Morgan Group

The mismatch

Precision on every job site. None of it online.

The old site looked like a subcontractor's afterthought, not a GC that owners trust with eight-figure builds. The precision that defines their job sites was nowhere in their digital presence.

The Charles Morgan Group, before
The Charles Morgan Group, after

Why UPWARD

The website as part of the vetting

Owners and developers evaluating a general contractor for an eight-figure build read the website as part of the vetting. The Charles Morgan Group's old site read like a subcontractor's afterthought, not the exact, disciplined company actually behind it. UPWARD understood that the story, the photography and the design all had to say the same thing: precision, pride and professionalism, told the way the industry actually evaluates a GC. The partnership continues.

Top-down aerial of Clay Cooley Hyundai of Rockwall in Rockwall, Texas, with its roofs and inventory rows, built by The Charles Morgan Group

The work

Let the buildings speak for themselves

We built the digital equivalent of their job sites: clean lines, honest materials, everything level. Project galleries, including aerial drone photography of completed work across Dallas-Fort Worth, let the buildings speak for themselves.

The story is told the way owners and developers actually evaluate a GC: precision, pride, and professionalism, with the proof in the portfolio.

Aerial view of the Clay Cooley Cadillac dealership in Mesquite, Texas, with its white showroom and inventory lots, built by The Charles Morgan Group
Clay Cooley Cadillac and Clay Cooley Genesis, built by The Charles Morgan GroupFeatured on the homepage of tmgconst.com  (opens in a new tab)

From the shoot · 8 of the company's library

The real buildings, from the ground and the air.

On location at the dealerships and shops The Charles Morgan Group built across North Texas. Open any frame for what, where and the story behind it.

See it live

The work is out in the world. Go see it.

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The ask

Your story deserves this treatment. Let's tell it.

A conversation

One conversation, with the two of us. No account manager between you and the people who'd do the work. And if you're happy with what you've got, that's fine too.

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