The vendor contract led to numerous jobs for dozens of people in the area, including women and minorities looking to gain experience in the field. That motto paved the way for success for Clemons and his family’s 33-year-old painting company, which was contracted to handle the painting on-site during the construction of MGM Springfield. “Fortunately, we had some parents that really instilled some incredible work ethic in us, and literally, our motto was: ‘the only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.’” “It was a race to the cereal in the morning,” Clemons said during a recent MGC public meeting in Springfield on September 26. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”īased on that quote, Lamont Clemons’ parents raised eight artists in Massachusetts, and that upbringing led Clemons to his role as the Executive Vice President of his family’s company, S-Cel-O Painting.Ĭlemons’ own career journey helped pave the way for dozens of other jobs to be created as a result of the construction of the state’s two destination-resort casinos: MGM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor.īefore his rise to his position at the certified minority and women business enterprise, Clemons was born and raised in the City of Springfield, and grew up with seven siblings. Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist.
