<p><a href="http://www.hok.com">HOK </a>made<em> Inc. </em>magazine's<a href="http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2009/index.html"> list of the 5,000 fastest-growing U.S. companies</a>. It was the only St. Louis construction industry firm to do so.</p>
<p>Forty-nine St. Louis-area companies made Inc. magazine's&nbsp; annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the nation.</p>
<p>In order to qualify for the Inc. 5000, companies must be U.S.-based,
privately held, for profit and independent &mdash; not subsidiaries or
divisions of other companies &mdash; as of Dec. 31, 2008.</p>
<p>They must also have achieved revenues of at least $200,000 in 2005 and $2 million in 2008.</p>