General contractor at 1121 Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037, founded by Tom Grunow — a Drexel University civil engineering graduate (construction management concentration) who started the company in Old Greenwich, Connecticut in 1975 before relocating to La Jolla in 1986. CSLB license #551663 (General Building, active since 1988). BuildZoom ranks Grunow in the top 6% of 336,931 California contractors with 149 permitted projects. The firm employs 11–50 people including full-time tradesmen with 20+ year tenures, and specializes in custom home remodels, historic preservation, new construction, and tenant improvements with Houzz-listed project budgets from $50,000 to $5 million. Tom's community involvement includes serving as founding board president of Winston School and president of the La Jolla Historical Society — civic roots shared with GDC Construction on Silverado St, which restored Fire Station 13 and built the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial. Open Monday–Friday 8 AM–5 PM. For landscape master planning around custom builds, Wichmann Landscape Architecture on Via del Norte has served San Diego for nearly 40 years.