Retrofitting Suburbia: A Luncheon with Ellen Dunham-Jones
February 22, 2010, 11:30am- 2pm
The Medallion Center
Columbia, SC
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Please join ULI South Carolina on February 22, 2010 for a very special lunch with world renowned architect Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA. The former director of the architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, January 2009), is an expert on urban and suburban design, and she shows how design of sustainable, walkable places can solve some of the most pressing issues of our times.
   Ellen has gotten considerable coverage from Retrofitting Suburbia, from CNU and other specialized groups to large scale media including TIME magazine, which named her concept of retrofitting dead and dying retail properties number three of their "Top Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now".
   Ellen maintains that the growing retail crisis presents us with an ideal opportunity to change the way we use these existing structures, building new mixed-use communities ideal for living, working, and shopping - thereby reducing the necessity of the automobile in everyday life and providing affordable and sustainable housing options for the future.

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APRIL 29, 2010
“Planning for the New Economy via Economically Sustainable Urbanism –The Importance of Creating Quality Jobs through Mixed Use Development.”
BUCKWALTER PLACE
BLUFFTON, SC

Participants will tour the fully entitled 94 acre Buckwalter Place site, followed by a presentation about the project and a thorough examination of the land plan.  A brief description of CareCore National, the initial anchor tenant of the technology park, and its objectives and plans for future expansion will be presented.  The tour of the site will be followed by a forum discussing future plans for the development and how knowledge based primary jobs can be attracted to an area economy that has historically relied on tourism and service sector employment.

Buckwalter Place is a 94 acre mixed use development in Bluffton, SC that is planned to become the focus and nexus of a significant amount of economic, commercial, governmental, educational, entertainment, social and cultural activity in southern Beaufort County.  For more information on Buckwalter Place, please visit the website at www.buckwalterplace.com.  To view project related articles, please visit the blog at www.buckwalterplace.com/blog