Prior to the presentations of the draft master plan on April 28, 2008, General Growth Properties (GGP) hosted a series of Community Forums to further engage the community in the development of a master plan for Columbia Town Center. These forums featured GGP’s world-class design and planning team, including:
Alan Ward: Ward is a principal with the landscape architecture firm Sasaki Associates, Inc. His accomplishments include acting as principal landscape architect responsible for winning the international design competition to develop the master plan for the site of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and for the development of Reston Town Center in Virginia.
Gail Dexter Lord: As president of Lord Cultural Resources, the world’s largest cultural planning firm, Lord specializes in planning in the museum and cultural sector. Her notable projects include the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain and the Smithsonian’s National African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Keith Bowers: Bowers is the founder and president of Biohabitats, an ecological restoration design, planning and assessment firm. He has a broad and comprehensive background in restoration ecology, ecological planning, and landscape architecture, which he has applied to hundreds of projects throughout North America.
Jaquelin T. Robertson: As founding partner of the architecture and urban design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners, Robertson has led his firm’s design work on many award-winning architectural and planning projects including Daniel Island, S.C., New Albany, N.Y., Celebration and WaterColor in Florida and Val d’Europe in France.
