Steps Plus

Specialties

Custom is standard at Steps Plus. The founder of Steps Plus, Robert Kopp, started making precast concrete steps as a side business in the mid-1950’s. Bob would work all day at his day job, then come home and cast steps in a walk-​out basement with a partner. Because the concrete would not be ready for finishing in the evening, he’d set his alarm for 2:00 AM, at which time he’d get up, trowel & broom the steps, go back to bed, and then get up the next day to go to his regular job. Installations were done on the weekends. When the step business took off in the late 1950’s, he and his partner bought a building in Utica, NY and turned their full attention to the business of making precast concrete steps. In 1967, Bob moved to Syracuse, NY to open a second branch located just off of Erie Blvd East. Gradually, commercial contractors started coming to him for architectural precast items such as sills and copings…