2 minute readLeft to right: Steven Parrish, TeamPMP, Lisa Parrish, TeamPMP, Summer Parrish, TeamPMP, Tim Sullivan, Zonda, Shane Parrish, TeamPMP
Last Wednesday evening, in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, there came a moment. It was real estate, construction, and design’s A sister. An infant daughter. A great-great grandson. An uncle. A mother. A grandfather. A brother. A dad. A cousin. A teacher. A workmate. A friend. Someone we sit next to on a plane. That one laughing. This one in tears. This one working into the night or past the wee hours of dawn. And always, the reality we circle back to is of a gold standard in the Gold Nugget process, its stewards and stakeholders, its forebears, and its profoundly wide and deep legacy that is unswayable, a human daisy chain that spans decades of hard, messy, costly, daunting, trial-and-error realities hewed and coaxed into value that stands amid all these present moments as a promise worth working for. If experts were to delve into and build out a Gold Nuggets econometric model, its nearly 30,000 project entries across 59 years would roll up to gross domestic product economic value creation – the toil, applied brilliance, multiplier and flywheel effects, job creation, local taxation, and community growth impacts – those economic impacts and valuations would soar into the tens of billions of dollars, millions of lives living in places and prospering from their homes and communities, countless new livelihoods spawned, What inspires the ones whose work – architecture, engineering, planning, building technology, community engagement, site development – inspires us? What calls to those who do the work that calls out to us as important, bold, iconic, literally ground-breaking? That’s what you mine as you look across the Gold Nugget Award’s 59 years, questions that calm us at a time rife with turmoil, strife, and high-volume clamor, and focus us instead on the timeless, the kiss of our collective efforts to make a place in a continuum that is limitless.Join the conversation
