City Center

This is a bit of an update on Matt's business. He got a call from Control4 (the company who produces the products they use) a week ago Saturday, asking for help with the City Center project. The City Center is a massive project under the MGM umbrella with several towers containing 1000's of hotel rooms and condos/apartments of varying sizes. Control4 was contracted to automate ALL the rooms. They are scheduled to open in 2-3 weeks and are not ready, needed help. So Matt, Tim (his partner) and another guy they hired have been doing 12 hours a day for the past 7 days, programming and bug fixing room by room by room.

This is a wonderful opportunity for many reasons. First, the basic ability to put this on their (Padwerx) company resume. Working on this massive project holds a lot of weight. Then there is the relationship they are building with control4 and the builders downtown. Turns out Matt and Tim have been able to train up a few of their "experts" and have been a real asset to them. That can only help in the future. Control4 now knows they have a solid team on site here to call on rather than the previous go-to guy in Phoenix. They have already asked if they are available to help on another downtown project (smaller) coming up. Matt is bringing in the director of operations of another resort and their COO on Wednesday to show them what's possible--a little pressure to keep up with the Jones, so to speak. And lastly, they are being paid well, and that is really great for our fledgling business.

So, Matt does not want to loose this opportunity while it lasts and I fully agree. So he is missing the drive to Utah and Thanksgiving. It would be silly to stay here with him, because he is leaving at 6am and getting home between 7 and 8pm, so it's not like we would have a Thanksgiving here. We are going to have a celebration dinner with a turkey roast and lots of rolls after the project is over. We will have many things to be thankful for then.

So that's just to fill you in. I can tell more, if you want later. Matt is getting an interesting look at the building process and behind the scene view of a massive project. He has to wear a hard hat the whole time and sometimes is climbing 24 floors of stairs (that's the record for now) because the elevators can have an hour wait at times. He doesn't see how they will open on time, but there are 100's of people working on 100's of different things trying to complete the whole.