Bill Kenwright has highlighted the role of Farhad Moshiri, Denise Barrett-Baxendale and Colin Chong as Everton's Bramley-Moore Dock stadium work continues at great pace.
Wednesday marks one year since the Blues were handed unanimous approval at a Liverpool City Council planning committee, allowing their plans at the waterfront to accelerate.
By July 2021, enabling works had begun on the club's state-of-the-art new home - with numerous exciting landmarks and milestones taking place over the following months since.
Everton have completed the dock infill and are starting to lay the first sections of the superstructure ahead of what will be some amazing visible progress over the course of the next year.
And this is something Kenwright is very excited for.
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The club's chairman has highlighted the work of many of Everton's hierarchy in bringing the Blues to the position they are in.
In particular, majority-shareholder Moshiri and his continued support of the project are given a prominent mention.
Kenwright wrote: "It seems like only yesterday that our inestimable CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale and our Stadium Director Colin Chong were superbly presenting the case for our move to an unbeatable new home, to the planning department of Liverpool City Council.
"The outcome of that landmark meeting, on February 23, 2021, is now a significant piece of local history – and an enormous amount of work has already been completed since that momentous day.
"We have witnessed the decommissioning of unexploded wartime devices, the relocation of marine wildlife - and the Herculean task of some 500,000 cubic metres of sand being transported in from the Irish Sea, by a dredger called Shoalway, to infill the Bramley-Moore Dock. That was all so much preparatory work.
"In August we were involved in a modest project commencement ceremony to mark the breaking of ground and since then work began in earnest to sink 2,500 concrete piles into the ground that will provide the building blocks for the new structure.
"Physically seeing structures rise from the ground on the Dock fills me with an enormous sense of pride – and it goes without saying that we would not be in the position we are now without our owner, Farhad Moshiri’s, continued support on every level, and the drive and determination of Denise and her team."
Everton edging close to a move to a new home means that they are also nearing the end of their time at Goodison Park.
Wednesday also marks a year since outline planning for a legacy project of the area was handed unanimous approval by the same Liverpool City Council committee that ruled on Bramley-Moore Dock.
And Kenwright took time to write some words on the "wonderful old stadium" and explained that the excitement of moving to a new stadium will make the exit from Goodison more bearable.
"Of course, every significant construction stride we take brings us one step closer to the day when we must leave our much-loved home of the last 130 years," he added.
"Some of the happiest, most poignant moments of my life have taken place inside that wonderful old stadium.
"But soon words like 'old', 'traditional' and 'grand' will be replaced by 'modern', 'dynamic' and 'futuristic'.
"It is the knowledge that we are moving to such a stunning new stadium which will make that day bearable.
"Our fans, their children and their children’s children will hopefully be able to experience the kind of joy there that we have shared in L4.
"There is much more work to be done before that day – but before we know it, we will be contemplating a stunning new chapter in the storied history of our cherished football club.
"It will be a truly momentous occasion – and although it will not bring back the memory of 1892 to any of us (!) I am pretty sure that, like me, it will leave all Evertonians feeling tremendously excited and immensely proud."
