Sustainable Land Development Today - November/December 2007 - (Page 47) SLDT RESOURCES ulation. Also, it evaluates existing laws, regulations, and strategies and provides a report on growth management issues to the Governor and Florida Legislature. Serving as a repository for best practices and “community building” ideas, the Century Commission is comprised of 15 members, with the Governor, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and President of the Florida Senate each appointing five members. Paulmann is a Senior Vice President, Principal with WilsonMiller, Inc. I The Engineering & Construction Contracting (ECC) Association has named Anne-Marie Walters, Global Marketing Director with the Bentley Plant division of Bentley Systems, Inc. the chairperson for 2007-2008. Among her responsibilities as the new chair is to lead the 40th Annual ECC Conference (www.ecc-conference.org), being held Sept. 3-6, 2008, at the Westin Keirland Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. I The Parkway Apartments located on Paseo Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, was recently awarded the Kansas City Beautiful Award by Kansas City Missouri (KCMO) Parks & Recreation and The Kessler Society. Swope Community Builders developed the property in partnership with Neighborhood Housing Services and the City of Kansas City. The $4 million new construction project, designed by Rosemann & Associates, P.C., was completed in June 2007. The block at 41st and Paseo was rundown with neglected and abandoned housing before development began. I The design of the Topcon Positioning Systems GR-3 GNSS receiver was one of the “Best 15” winners of the Good Design Award contest in Japan. This recognition of the GR-3 follows the product being declared a winner of the prestigious European International Forum (IF) product design award earlier this year. Also recognized were Topcon’s FC-200 field controller and the GPT-9000 total station series, both winning Good Design awards. I Turner|Gilbane, a joint venture of Turner Construction Company and Gilbane Building Company, has been awarded a $649 million contract by the U.S. Corps of Engineers at Ft. Belvoir, Va., to construct a 1.1 million sq. ft. community hospital. This award is part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program and one of the first BRAC projects of this magnitude and scope. BRAC is expected to bring an additional 19,000 personnel to Fort Belvoir by 2011. The scope of work will include a main in-patient facility, several outpatient clinics, parking garages, a helipad, ambulance shelter, medical office building and a central energy plant. Construction started this fall and completion is expected in late-Summer 2010. The new hospital replaces the DeWitt Army Community Hospital which opened its doors in 1957. I Todd Mansfield, chairman and CEO of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Crosland LLC, announced that Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund, the nation’s largest real estate investment fund focused on urban revitalization in America, has invested with Crosland in Terrazzo, a $65 million mixed-use development under construction in The Gulch, an arts redevelopment district in downtown Nashville. It is Canyon-Johnson’s first participation with Crosland and its first investment in the Nashville market. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Canyon-Johnson is a joint venture between Canyon Capital Realty Advisors and basketball-legendturned-business-tycoon Earvin “Magic” Johnson, CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises. Crosland has announced three projects in The Gulch since the company acquired Nashville-based Armistead Barkley in 2005 and established a Tennessee regional office, headed by Bill Barkley. 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