Thanks from Alum Eliot Quon, Postdoctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
ARCS Foundation has been a highlight of my academic career thus far, thank you for the support!
On November 5, the Atlanta Chapter of ARCS Foundation held a Fall Educational Event at Riverview Landing on the Chattahoochee, which is in the beginning stages of development as a mixed-use, planned community. This is a partnership between the Chattahoochee Riverkeepers and Nature Center and Chattahoochee NOW. Walter Brown, Senior Vice President and co-founder of Green Street Properties, presented a slide show of the Ponce City Market (formerly City Hall East) renovation in which 90% of its demolition materials were recycled. Attendees also learned about the LEEDs building standards and "report card,” waste reduction and environmental sustainability. Finally, Mr. Brown explained about the post-industrial brownfield clean-up process used at Atlantic Station. After the presentation, participants toured Riverview Landing which is being transformed from an industrial site to a beautiful pedestrian friendly town with up to 2.3 million square feet of mixed-use entitlement including boating and fishing access docks, mountain bike trails, organic farms, dog parks, storm-water ponds, and preserved wetlands.
Riverview Landing Field Trip
On November 5, the Atlanta Chapter of ARCS Foundation held a Fall Educational Event at Riverview Landing on the Chattahoochee, which is in the beginning stages of development as a mixed-use, planned community. This is a partnership between the Chattahoochee Riverkeepers and Nature Center and Chattahoochee NOW. Walter Brown, Senior Vice President and co-founder of Green Street Properties, presented a slide show of the Ponce City Market (formerly City Hall East) renovation in which 90% of its demolition materials were recycled. Attendees also learned about the LEEDs building standards and "report card,” waste reduction and environmental sustainability. Finally, Mr. Brown explained about the post-industrial brownfield clean-up process used at Atlantic Station. After the presentation, participants toured Riverview Landing which is being transformed from an industrial site to a beautiful pedestrian friendly town with up to 2.3 million square feet of mixed-use entitlement including boating and fishing access docks, mountain bike trails, organic farms, dog parks, storm-water ponds, and preserved wetlands.
RIverview Landing Overview
Walter Brown, Senior VP and co-founder Green Street Properties
Atlanta Chapter President, Gracia Conn
Leslie Petter, Elizabeth Spiegel, Michelle Nordin, and Lissa Webber
Natalie and Michelle Nordin
Anne Easterly
Lunch!
ARCS Foundation has been a highlight of my academic career thus far, thank you for the support!
I am immensely grateful to the ARCS Foundation and Turner Enterprises for making my award possible. I am honored to have been part of the talented and promising group of young researchers from the Atlanta-area!
Let me start by saying how thankful I am for being selected as an ARCS scholar. I consider it one of my greatest achievements thus far and I am immensely proud to count myself as one of the amazing group of students that your organization selected to receive this award. I want you ladies to know you are doing an outstanding job! You all are embarked on a truly altruistic endeavor and it is my fervent prayer that this organization thrives for years to come.