More landscaping tools transformed into art

 Once again Steven Smith Landscape, Inc. got a request  from our friends at Stone Brewing Company.  This time Chris Cochran, Community Relations Manager asked for well worn pickaxes, for the September 2012 groundbreaking ceremony of Stone's new, 22,000-square-foot restaurant and brewery in Liberty Station. Our President, Steve Smith, and Chris Cutler, our Maintenance Superintendent gathered together a great collection from our 'tool archives', not a shiny new one in the bunch.  Thank you guys for unearthing these vintage axes for the project. The Stone's artists then transformed them into objets d' art for groundbreaking day.  After the ceremony  pickaxes were presented to former City of San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, Kevin Faulconer and Brian Bilbray (shown in photo flanked by Stone Pres. Steve Wagner and CEO Greg Koch) And we also received one which for display at our Escondido headquarters. Don't forget to check in with stevensmithlandscape.com to see our portfolio of projects.

Landscaping tools transformed into art!

We got a request last month from our friends at Stone Brewing Company.  Chris Cochran, Community Relations Manager specifically asked for 'used shovels', NOT shiny new ones to be used at the groundbreaking ceremony for their new 59,815 sq ft Stone Packaging Hall in Escondido on August 2nd. We never realized that some of our old, broken-in, but still quite useful shovels would be such a hot commodity.  Or that their resident artist 'Chili' would see the potential in the mottled, patinated surface.  As you can see our old shovels were transformed into really cool commemorative art pieces.  After the ceremony two of the shovels were presented to Escondido Assistant City Manager Charles Grimm and Escondido Mayor Sam Abed. And we also received one which we proudly display at our Escondido headquarters.  You can read about the groundbreaking and see more photos of our shovels on the Stone Blog.

 Author: Leslie C.