Allen Greene II had spent most of his life believing he could outwork almost anything.
He learned that mentality from his father, Allen Greene Sr., while working alongside him on flooring crews across Tampa Bay, hauling material before sunrise, mixing self-leveling cement and spending long days inside unfinished buildings, where Greene II absorbed the belief that persistence and physical labor could solve almost any problem. He later carried that mindset into Envision Construction Services, the commercial construction company he and his father built in the wake of the recession after losing their separate flooring businesses, before years of setbacks, loss and faith forced him to reconsider how much hard work alone could actually hold together.
Only weeks after Greene II and his wife, Ariana, brought home their first child following years of fertility treatments and a difficult pregnancy, Greene II was critically injured in a crash and rushed to Tampa General Hospital with broken ribs, a brain bleed and severe lung damage. Doctors warned the family he might never breathe independently again while Greene Sr. listened to discussions about a tracheotomy and neurological uncertainty. Greene Sr. asked them to wait, went home to pray and returned the next day to sit beside his son, who could not speak but could still squeeze his father’s hand…