Gardens CEO Brian Vogt gets a bird’s-eye view of the Gardens’ construction projects from atop the tower crane used to build the parking structure.

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

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2009 at the Gardens started out with holes. One great big hole could be found between Josephine and York where, after 37 years of hoping and planning, we were building an amazing new parking structure.

Throughout the Gardens, there were more holes, lots of them. We replaced the old, leaky, clay and asbestos irrigation system with state-of-the-art infrastructure that included potable and recycled water lines, fiber optics, electricity and telephone lines. It was a huge step, but pretty messy.

Another hole was right at our front door, where we were building the Bonfi ls-Stanton Visitor Center. Yet another could be found where our old greenhouses once stood.

The final hole was the toughest – a potential hole in our revenues in the wake of a severe recession.

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