{"id":8866,"date":"2024-11-25T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:22:32","slug":"a-bit-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/a-bit-different\/","title":{"rendered":"It Feels A Bit Different"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last several years, I have written the end-of-the-year article for our newsletter. \u00a0And every year I have the usual struggle of writing about something different, trying not to say the same things that I said last year.<\/p>\n

But this year it feels a bit different<\/em>.\u00a0 This year I write this as I close out my first full year as President of our company.\u00a0 For the past thirty-nine years, my father, Tim Joy, has been at the helm of Christensen\u2019s Plant Center.\u00a0 Taking over ownership with Frank Huber in 1984\u2026\u00a0 Surviving the economy of the 1980\u2019s\u2026\u00a0 Which to hear my father and others of his generation of ownership, was really something. (Don\u2019t complain about your 7% mortgage.\u00a0 Rates peaked around 15% in the 80\u2019s.\u00a0 And did not go below 10% for the decade.)\u00a0 Moving our business from Livonia to its current location in Salem Township in 1989…\u00a0 Then the boom of the 90\u2019s, when housing soared in metro Detroit.\u00a0 And the new facility they built and expected not to outgrow in their careers was outgrown in five years.\u00a0 So, they expanded it again, and again.\u00a0 The market then completed its cycle with the housing crash in 2006-2008.\u00a0 Our business constricted, as did the entire landscape market… And I watched my father drink Maalox every night, straight from the bottle that lived on the top shelf of our refrigerator.\u00a0 To the post-crash boom\u2026\u00a0 As landscape projects soared, and inventories bottomed out.\u00a0 Thirty-nine years to come full circle.<\/p>\n

Now 39 years later, I have the lead. I am forever grateful for the lessons of the last 4 decades.\u00a0 I am grateful that my dad is still around for me to access that wealth of knowledge.\u00a0 I am grateful for the relationships that I have made over my first years and for the counsel from a great many of them.\u00a0 But it definitely feels a bit different.<\/p>\n

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To the staff of Christensen\u2019s Plant Center, my most profound thanks.\u00a0 This team is the reason that Christensen\u2019s is what it is today.<\/p>\n

To our wonderful customers.\u00a0 Thank you for your continued business.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing each of you next year.\u00a0 We have some cool things coming next year.<\/p>\n

May you all have a safe and blessed holiday season.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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