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75-Minute Education Session

SAT-C08: How Green Infrastructure Captured the Heart of Lexington: Town Branch Commons

Saturday, October 28, 2023
3:45pm – 5:00pm CT
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, Auditorium 3
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW
Weaving 2.5 miles of green infrastructure and multi-modal transit through Lexington, Town Branch Commons represents a decade of public-private partnership, investment, and painstaking coordination. Hear from project leaders, including the designer behind the concept, a former agency lead behind its realization, and a local landscape architect who worked on its implementation.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Dive into the behind-the-scenes process underpinning large-scale urban transformations and green infrastructure projects—including the complexities of interagency and public-private partnerships extended over a decade.
  • Learn project-specific tactics to preserve the essence of a visionary design concept through rigorous funding requirements and other procedural challenges.
  • Examine stewardship for longer-term design team collaborations—especially in the context of changing firms, business models, and regional markets.
  • Learn about navigating public and private properties at a downtown scale, applicable especially to those working on public landscapes and planning initiatives in mid-sized cities.