Kenneth Thomason

About Kenny

Some people choose construction. Kenny Thomason was born into it.

A fourth-generation Las Vegas native, Kenny grew up in a family where construction wasn’t just a career — it was a way of life. While other kids showed up to career day dressed as doctors, lawyers, and athletes, a young Kenny arrived in jeans, boots, and a hard hat, his dad’s tape measure on his hip and an old radio in hand. He didn’t need to imagine what he wanted to be. He already knew.

Kenny graduated high school early in 2007 and immediately committed to the craft, completing a rigorous four-year program to earn his Journeyman Carpenter status through the union — one of the youngest to do so. By 17, he was already working high-rise construction in Las Vegas, learning the trade from the ground up on some of the most demanding job sites in the country. What most people spend careers trying to reach, Kenny was doing before he could legally have a beer.

During his union years, Kenny worked as a carpenter for MJ Dean Construction — at the time one of the most prominent contractors in Las Vegas — contributing to some of the most significant construction projects in Nevada’s history, including Planet Hollywood (Aladdin Conversion), the East Side Cannery spanning the tower, low-rise, site work, and central plant, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Expansion encompassing the joint venue, casino expansion, central plant, south garage, south tower, north tower, and pool expansion, and the Forever 21 at Fashion Show Mall — one of the largest tenant improvements in the mall’s history.

Then the recession hit. Rather than wait for the industry to recover, Kenny grabbed a Ford Ranger and bet on himself — launching a handyman business in 2010 built on a simple promise: be someone people can count on. That scrappy one-man operation would become the foundation of everything that followed, formally becoming Thomason Construction Inc. in 2011 with a singular focus: be the best subcontractor in Las Vegas.

In 2013, Kenny was recruited by Capital West Construction. He accepted — and then did something that most people in this industry would consider impossible. For nearly a decade, Kenny ran both companies simultaneously. By day he was rising through the ranks at Capital West, eventually reaching Director of Construction. Nights, weekends, and every hour in between, he was growing Thomason Construction and sharpening it into the most reliable subcontracting operation in the valley.

At Capital West, Kenny served as the lead superintendent for Area 15 — Las Vegas’s immersive entertainment complex that has become one of the most talked-about venues in the country. He took the site from a vacant parking lot with sewer lines and utility poles running through it all the way to a completed, turnkey building ready for tenant improvements. He then led the majority of those tenant improvements himself, including Museum Fiasco, Oddwood, The Beast Food Hall, Bizarre Bizarre, the Portal Production Area, BOH Kitchen, Halley’s Comet, Wink World, Ibuku, The Spine, the Portal Entrance, and the Skull Platform.

And he didn’t just manage the project — Thomason Construction self-performed the framing, drywall, grid ceilings, insulation, and painting across the majority of those spaces. Kenny was both the general superintendent and the subcontractor delivering the work. That’s a level of ownership and accountability that almost no one in this industry can claim.

Beyond Area 15, Kenny led ground-up commercial projects, tilt-up construction, high-rises, and a wide range of commercial tenant improvements during his time at Capital West — adding yet another dimension to an already extraordinary resume.

In 2017, Kenny identified another gap in the Las Vegas market — honest, reliable plumbing. He launched Dignity Plumbing as a residential and commercial service repair company, built on the same values that had driven everything else he had built. By 2018, Dignity Plumbing had expanded into new construction, taking on both residential and commercial plumbing projects across the valley.

From January 2017 through October 2024, Kenny was simultaneously running three companies — Thomason Construction, Dignity Plumbing, and serving as Director of Construction at Capital West. Not managing from a distance. Not delegating from a corner office. Actively leading all three, every single day.

In October 2024, Kenny retired from Capital West to focus solely on Thomason Construction Inc. and Dignity Plumbing — and for the first time, channeled his full attention into transforming Thomason from the best subcontractor in town into a full-service general contracting powerhouse.

Today, Thomason Construction Inc. stands as a full-service general contractor with five unlimited Nevada contractor licenses, multiple self-performing trade divisions, and a team that at its peak has included over 127 W-2 employees. Kenny has done it all — tilt-ups, high-rises, casino expansions, tenant improvements, ground-up commercial builds, and everything in between. There isn’t a project type he hasn’t touched, and there isn’t a problem on a job site he hasn’t seen — and solved.

With 19 years of hands-on experience and a family legacy stretching back four generations, Kenny leads Thomason Construction with the perspective of someone who has held every single position on a job site. He didn’t learn this business in a classroom or a boardroom. He learned it with his hands, his boots on the ground, and an unrelenting drive to be someone his clients, his team, and his family can count on.

When it matters most, you can Count On Thomason. That promise starts with Kenny.