business, from start to finish
Photographs by Adam Amato
Labor foreman Don Borg was one of j
the workers that spent many months j
working on the Lillis Business Complex.
“I spend more time with these guys
than I do with my family," Borg said last
spring.
Linda Ivie painted much of the steel in
the Lillis Business Complex. Her
reason for doing so was simple: “This
beats sitting at home watching Oprah,"
Ivie said last spring.
(Bottom middle) Charles H. Lundquist
College of Business Dean Philip
Romero and naming benefactors
Charles M. Lillis, Ph.D. and wife
Gwendolyn H. Lillis, Ph.D. watch
University President Dave Frohnmayer
as he overturns the last shovel full of
earth at the groundbreaking of
the Lillis Business Complex
on April 2,2002.
Ironworker Gerald Kordon from CARR
Construction Inc. put many of the
finishing touches to the iron skeleton of
the Lillis Business Complex.
The Lillis Business Complex will be a
model in sustainable design for the
Pacific Northwest and provide much
needed quality classroom space for the
wider University community.
The Lillis Business Complex is the
largest privately funded University
academic building ever and was
designed to complement the Charles
H. Lundquist College of Business'
team-based curriculum.
(Top middle) Charles M. Lillis, the
benefactor for whom the building is
named, watches as balloons fall into
the completed Lillis Business Complex
at the ribbon-cutting celebration Friday.
The spiral staircase on the building’s
west side is one of the many features
of the $41 million Lillis Business
Complex designed by SRG Partnership.