How did OPN start?

OPN buys its way into what ever govt building plan its wants to get its cut and drive cost up  backroom deal with CRCSD http://homegrowniowan.com/opn-architects-among-top-donors-to-cedar-rapids-school-district-vote-yes-bond-campaign-marion-woman-is-top-individual-donor/ 

O is for Olson 

Scott Olson has been on the city council since 2000? he become a realtor for commercial real estate in 1993 and left OPN then 

P is for Popa 

Popa  is mostly retired the only thing i could find about him was an obit of his wife from 2014 https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2014/Oct/Myrna-J-Robertson-Popa/?PF=True

N is for Novak

JAMES A NOVAK, Principal

 foundered of Novak Design Group founded in 1986 he split from OPN 

 that group later merged into Emergentarch some time after 2020. 

 https://emergentarch.com/about/james-novak/ 

Olson Plaun

Novak