Such status has certainly opened some doors, but Murphy has had the entrepreneurial drive, and that determination, to march through those doors and, as noted, put down some ambitious plans for what comes next. She’s done all this by making connections, forging relationships, and, yes, taking full advantage of City Enterprise’s status as a woman- and minority-owned business. Park Service from the General Services Administration to the U.S. Indeed, she has taken City Enterprise from a small, one-person venture that started with Murphy designing, building, and flipping homes to a multi-dimensional company with 14 employees that has secured work with clients ranging from UMass Amherst to the U.S. We get there through collaboration and partnerships, we get there by building the employees based on our core values, get there through outside-the-box thinking and vision, more than just focusing on getting the next job.” And I have some very aggressive goals for the next five years. “We’re in a transition period now where I’m growing the company. Getting where she wants to go will certainly be a challenge, but Murphy has already clearly shown that she has the ability to set goals and then reach them through hard work, determination, and overcoming obstacles in her path.

I want to be a $150 million company, and we get there by scaling, we get there by duplication, we get there through collaboration and partnerships, we get there by building the employees based on our core values, get there through outside-the-box thinking and vision, more than just focusing on getting the next job.” “And I have some very aggressive goals for the next five years. “We’re in a transition period now where I’m growing the company,” she said. But she believes it’s all realistic, and, more importantly, she has a blueprint for getting there. She wants to add more staff, and she wants to broaden the portfolio with larger projects, likely through partnerships with larger construction firms. She wants to build a new headquarters facility in this region because the company has clearly outgrown its current home on Berkshire Avenue in Springfield. She wants to expand geographically and open new locations, perhaps one in Florida and another in Maine or New Hampshire. She wants to take it to $150 million in annual revenue - roughly six times the current level.

Wonderlyn Murphy has some ambitious plans for City Enterprise, the construction company she started nearly two decades ago.

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