WGM Group is well aware of the impact transportation costs have on our employees' discretionary income. Every hike in gas prices is a pay cut to our employees. For a number of years, we have provided bus passes to our employees through the Missoula Downtown Association. We also encourage biking, walking, and car pooling, and we participate in the annual Bike/Bus/Walk week. We provide company vehicles for necessary work-related trips, or for the occasional emergency or late night.
Brooks / South / Russell Intersection Improvement project recently placed as a national finalist in the 2008 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Awards. WGM Group was the only company for the state of Montana to be recognized. This project has also won three other awards including the Grand Project Award in the 2008 ACEC Montana competition.
Receiving the award for the
Brooks / South / Russell project, from second left to right,
Woody Germany (WGM Group), Bruce Bender (City of Missoula),
and Brent Campbell (WGM Group).
At WGM Group, we continue to believe that street lighting is one of the most important public infrastructure needs in Missoula to make our streets complete. WGM Group is in the process of analyzing the City of Missoula's street lighting system to determine whether or not the City's residents are receiving value from the current system, or if there is a better way to light the streets and sidewalks of Missoula.
The Greater Downtown Master Plan vision is to create a broadly accepted guiding tool that ensures the long term health, character and vitality of our central city.
How do you envision the downtown area of Missoula changing? The Urban Land Magazine recently published a section on New Age Retail. These stories give a new and exciting take on how the next generation retail will look and feel. Click the link below to read these articles.
Urban Land Magazine: New Age Retail
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As published in the Missoulian -
By JEREMY W. KEENE and BRENT A. CAMPBELL
As a community, we have a problem. Our population growth has outpaced our transportation infrastructure. As a result, traffic has gotten worse. Traffic affects everyone. It affects how we work, spend money and choose to live. It's part of our decision when visiting friends, or take a position on political issues, such as the environment. And it affects how we feel about our town. Transportation is at the root of everything we do.
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