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Bazan Honored at the 2025 Painting & Decorating Foundation Finishing Touch Awards Banquet
Last month, Bazan participated in the 2025 Painting and Decorating Foundation’s Finishing Touch Awards Banquet (on November 4), where several of our submitted projects were recognized.
Highlights include a Second Place award for the Ritz-Carlton St. Louis Event Space Renovations, and Third Place awards for the Schnucks Mahomet, IL Floor Polishing project and the Campbell School District Indoor Pool Resurfacing. |
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Second Place
Ritz-Carlton Event Space Renovations
As part of The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis’ multi-million-dollar renovation and grand reopening of its historic 12,200-square-foot ballroom, Bazan Painting Co. contributed specialized finishing work that helped elevate one of the Midwest’s premier event venues.
The renovation—led by design firm BAMO and coordinated with BSI Constructors—transformed the Grand Ballroom and adjoining event spaces in celebration of the hotel’s 35th anniversary, integrating high-end materials and intricate design elements throughout the Event Corridor and ballroom.
Our team completed a range of detailed finishing tasks requiring precision, expertise, and careful coordination with the hotel’s luxury design vision.
- Specialty finishing of trim and moldings to complement the ballroom’s tailored furnishings and refined architectural details.
- Removal and installation of new decorative wallcoverings. These wallcoverings function as a large-scale mural throughout the Event Corridor and required alignment to maintain the intended color, texture, and dimensional flow.
- Installation of foil wallcoverings on ceilings, an intricate process that demanded perfect surface preparation due to the material’s reflectivity and tendency to reveal imperfections.
- Patching and surface smoothing where light fixtures were removed, refining ceilings and soffits to achieve the uniform, seamless appearance required for soft ambient lighting.
This project required collaboration with the design and construction teams as The Ritz-Carlton reintroduced its revitalized ballroom to host weddings, galas, and corporate celebrations. Our craftsmanship contributed to an event space that remains true to the property’s long-standing reputation for luxury.
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Third Place
Schnucks Floor Polishing
Schnucks Markets partnered with Bazan Painting Co. to modernize the floor at their recent Mahomet, IL total store remodel project.
Our team repaired cracks, replaced expansion joint material, and prepared the substrate after the General Contractor removed the existing flooring. A 2,600 sq. ft. oval in the center of the store was contained with negative air, shaved 1/2 inch around the perimeter, and abraded for proper profiling.
An epoxy primer with sand broadcast was installed, followed by 1/2 inch of Rapid Set TruPC Architectural Concrete Topping. The same method was used where floor drains and trenches were replaced.
The entire sales area was then ground, densified, and polished to a 3,000 finish using dust-collection systems. Work was performed after hours, out of town, with crews ranging from 4 to 15 painters over approximately four months. The project required coordinated scheduling, logistics management, substrate repair, TruPC installation, and large-scale concrete polishing.
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Third Place
Indoor Pool Resurfacing
This pool resurfacing project at the Campbell County School District Aquatic Center in Gillette, WY required preparation and painting of the concrete pit beneath a hydraulic, movable pool floor, along with precise layout and painting of lane lines on the PVC pool floor to seamlessly match the surrounding pool tile.
Precision was required while laying out and measuring the exact placement of the pool lines on the PVC surface. Because the floor surface was uneven, masking off the layout presented a challenge.
An additional complication arose when the blue coating selected for the cross-lane hash marks did not match the existing pool tile. With no time to reorder material—and because the underwater coating could not be tinted—our team quickly adapted. Using black paint available on-site, our painters created a custom color match that perfectly aligned with the client’s desired shade, saving time and cost.
Prepping and painting the pit beneath the pool floor presented its own set of difficulties, but our painters met the challenge and completed the project ahead of schedule.
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As the premier, full-service painting contractor in the Midwest, we serve industrial and commercial clientele across the country and take pride in the work we do. We are celebrating over 45 years in business and it still feels like we're just getting started.
With sincere wishes for continued success,
Val Perales & Kevin White
Bazan Painting Co. |
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