CIRI COMPANY OVERVIEW
CIRI is an Alaska Native corporation. It is one of 12 Alaska-based regional corporations established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 to benefit Alaska Natives who had ties to the Cook Inlet region. The Company is owned by more than 7,300 Alaska Native shareholders of Athabascan and Southeast Indian, Inupiat, Yupik, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) and Aleut (Unangax) descent. It is based in Anchorage and has interests across Alaska, the lower 49 and abroad. CIRI’s well-diversified portfolio of business operations and investments includes:
Energy and resource development
Heavy construction services
Environmental remediation services
Real estate
Tourism and hospitality
Telecommunications
Minority business enterprise and government contracting
Private equity and venture capital investments
CIRI also created a family of nonprofit service organizations that provide needed health care, housing, employment, education and other social and cultural enrichment services for Alaska Natives and others.
Businesses
Alaska Interstate Construction LLC (AIC)
AIC moves earth. It is the heavy construction services company that energy and resource developers rely upon for extreme projects that have no tolerance for error, from mining projects to ice roads across fragile North Slope tundra and drill pads in ecologically sensitive near-shore zones throughout Alaska.
AIC is also Alaska's civil contractor of choice when public works projects require specialized expertise and fleets of heavy equipment. AIC moves mountains and bridges canyons for safer Alaska highways. Its winter construction capabilities accelerate timelines and minimize the environmental impact of extending roads across sensitive wetlands.
AIC is:
ANC Research & Development LLC (ANC R&D)
ANC R&D supports U.S. defense agencies, other government agencies and private contractors. It provides engineering and technical assistance, information technology, program and project management, research, training and civil construction services. It is a wholly owned CIRI subsidiary that is Minority Business Enterprise-, Small Disadvantaged Business- and Small Business Administration 8(a)-certified. Its combination of in-house capabilities and Alaska Native ownership enable government and private contractors to complete projects while also meeting minority procurement goals.
ANC R&D is both a prime contractor and a subcontractor. It is developing an Army prototype mobile satellite communications platform and is helping manage Army databases and designing test missile defense infrastructure. It is implementing leading edge information technology and processes and procedures for the Air Force at multiple locations around the nation. ANC R&D supplies key personnel support for the Air Force homeland security functions. ANC R&D's construction division builds civil projects for the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation, Fish and Wildlife Service and others in the western United States and Alaska, from replacing bridges to paving parking lots.
CIRI Alaska Tourism Corp. (CATC)
CATC is Alaska's largest locally owned tourism services provider. It helps travelers experience the best of Alaska, including national parks, wildlife viewing and glacier tours. CATC is the parent business of Seward-based Kenai Fjords Tours, one of Alaska's leading marine day-cruise companies.
CATC's land-based properties include the 212-room Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge near Denali National Park, the 180-room Seward Windsong Lodge near Kenai Fjords National Park and the exclusive Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge on Fox Island in Southcentral Alaska's Resurrection Bay. CATC's Alaska Heritage Tours packaging service helps independent travelers plan and book reservations for their Alaska adventures and prepare travel packages for group meetings, weddings, conventions and incentive travel.
CATC is a wholly owned CIRI subsidiary and a certified Minority Business Enterprise.
CIRI Land Development Co. (CLDC)
CLDC is a vertically integrated, full-service real estate development, investment and property management company with holdings located primarily in Alaska, Texas, Arizona, California and Hawaii. CLDC's holdings include major commercial real estate asset classes. Its development projects range from Tikahtnu Commons - Alaska's largest shopping and entertainment center being built on CIRI land in northeast Anchorage - to mixed-use office, retail, multifamily and residential developments in Alaska, Arizona, central Texas and California, to raw land for sale or lease.
CLDC and its subsidiaries provide a full spectrum of real estate services. Pacific Tower Properties Inc. (PTP) is a CLDC subsidiary and Alaska's premier commercial property management, sales, leasing and brokerage firm. PTP's property management portfolio includes more than 50 properties and 4 million square feet of commercial space statewide. CLDC is a wholly owned CIRI subsidiary and a certified Minority Business Enterprise.
Fire Island Wind LLC is a wholly owned CIRI subsidiary that is developing Alaska's first commercial-scale wind power generation project on CIRI land on Fire Island, in Cook Inlet just west of Anchorage. Fire Island Wind is Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)-certified.
Southcentral Alaska uses natural gas to generate more than 90 percent of its electricity. However, Cook Inlet gas reserves are running out. Clean, renewable wind energy could diversify Railbelt power resources, which would increase reliability and decrease ratepayers' vulnerability to gas shortages and price increases.
The first phase of the project will include 11 1.6-megawatt turbines capable of producing 17.6 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 6,000 homes. Fire Island Wind anticipates beginning power production in fall 2012.
North Wind provides environmental cleanup and restoration, project management and construction services for government and private projects. It has a highly skilled team of hazardous materials specialists and other workers at offices and projects across the United States and Puerto Rico. Its client portfolio includes the Departments of Energy, Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security, NASA and such commercial interests as Bechtel, Chevron Phillips Chemical, Duke Energy and General Electric.
North Wind is Minority Business Enterprise-, Small Disadvantaged Business- and Small Business Administration 8(a)-certified.
North Wind's core capabilities include:
North Wind Services is a Small Business Administration 8(a)-certified Small Disadvantaged Business that provides environmental assessment, cleanup and restoration, project management and construction services for government and private projects.
North Wind Services is Minority Business Enterprise-, Small Disadvantaged Business- and Small Business Administration 8(a)-certified.
North Wind Services' core capabilities include:
Pacific Tower Properties Inc. (PTP) is a subsidiary of CIRI Land Development Co. and Alaska's premier commerical property management, sales, leasing and brokerage firm. PTP is Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)-certified.
PTP's property management portfolio includes more than 50 properties and 4 million square feet of commercial and institutional space statewide, from retail and service businesses to schools and public and private office space.
PTP Management Inc. is a division of PTP that provides a full range of property management, construction and consulting services, including leasing, accounting, reporting, marketing, tenant coordination, development and consulting services.
Stone Horn Ridge LLC is a wholly owned CIRI subsidiary that is moving to develop an underground coal gasification (UCG) project to initiate commercial operations and production as soon as 2015. Stone Horn Ridge is Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)-certified.
The project site is on remote CIRI land that is being carefully selected for geologic and hydrologic characteristics to minimize environmental risk. CIRI's core drilling programs have confirmed the existence of significant commercial coal reserves and favorable geology in the project area that can support safe, clean and economic UCG development.
The initial project will provide syngas that can be used to generate electricity, upgraded with methanation into synthetic natural gas for local use and export, or used as feedstock to produce clean liquid fuels, fertilizer or other petrochemical projects. It will also offset declining domestic natural gas reserves, bringing price stability and clean, safe and reliable base load power to meet Southcentral Alaska's energy needs.
