People often ask us where our next office or what our next practice area will be. While other firms grow through acquisition, or by taking on debt and going public as part of a conglomerate, we maintain an entrepreneurial culture and a one-firm strategy of self-governance. This is why we recently became the first architecture and design firm to achieve $1 billion of revenue in a single fiscal year. Our firm revolves around a shared commitment to design excellence and a culture of entrepreneurial self-sustaining leadership, and our talented professionals all over the globe constantly leveraging the power of design to create a better, more livable world.Īt Gensler, we are laser-focused on delivering powerful creativity to each and every one of our clients. These are the things Gensler strives to accomplish each and every day. Helping our clients achieve their goals and being their trusted advisors. The 2nd Tallest Building in the World and A New Icon for China. We need to show Salem that rural Oregon has a voice, and demand it be heard! It is time.The Shanghai Tower. Then download the e-petition, sign and send it to the Lottery Local Control Committee. Go to to learn how much money that means to your county. We can begin by reclaiming 50% of lottery funds being taken from our local counties currently going into a "honeypot" in Salem. Could it be because their own pocketbooks are at stake? It is time for a grassroots movement to bring local control back to local communities. Do they not understand the word emergency? Where was the $2 billion that would have given rural counties the ability to provide basic public safety services to its citizens, and saved nearby jurisdictions from sacrificing their own public safety concerns and dollars? Why did we not see the PERS financial time bomb addressed? This will financially affect every city, county, state agency (and yes that means taxpayer), as they scramble to fund PERS liabilities now, not 2025. To add insult to injury, they classify them as emergency measures, to take effect immediately, and push them through the short legislation session. They have continuously ignored our pleas to help stabilize funding in counties dependent upon our natural resources for county funding, yet they push for clean energy reforms which are not proven to be cost effective, and will roll out by 2025. We have stood by and waited too long for Salem to take notice of the difference in rural and urban communities. It is time for those of us in rural Oregon to take responsibility and charge of our needs.
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