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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Designing the World’s First Underground Park</b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Registration and more info: <a href="http://urbangreencouncil.org/content/events/designing-world%E2%80%99s-first-underground-park">http://urbangreencouncil.org/content/events/designing-world%E2%80%99s-first-underground-park</a> </div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Event Description</b></div>
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Beneath the Williamsburg Bridge sits the Delancey trolley terminal, out of service for more than 60 years. A revolutionary project, called the Lowline, is transforming this under-utilized space into the world's first underground park. The project has engaged
the local community, and generated conversation and awareness over the importance of green spaces for healthy living, while also showcasing technical ingenuity and creativity.</p>
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The Lowline Lab opened to the public this spring to serve as a testing ground and promote the concept while the full project continues to develop. The lab is designed to support a thriving and evolving ecosystem with adaptive (some even edible) plants, fed
by active solar harvesting technology that "pipes" light in from large rooftop collectors.</p>
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Members of the multidisciplinary team will discuss in detail the innovative design, research and technologies used to bring plants (and people) below ground, and the ongoing testing, monitoring and measuring that will enable them to realize the full vision
and join the ranks of other NYC parks that have turned abandoned spaces into urban oases.</p>
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<div><b style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Signe Nielsen</b><br style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">
<span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Principal, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, P.C.</span><br style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">
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<b style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Mark Mini</b><br style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">
<span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Vice President, John Mini Distinctive Landscapes </span><br style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">
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<b style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Andrew Engel</b><br style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">
<span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Lead Horticulturalist, John Mini Distinctive Landscapes </span><br style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">
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<b style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Star Davis</b><br style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">
<span style="font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; widows: 1;">Daylighting + Lighting Designer, ARUP</span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><b>Daryle Ward-Cherry</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">
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<b>Urban Green Council</b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13px;">U.S. Green Building Council of New York<br>
55 Broad Street, 9th Floor<br>
New York, NY 10004<br>
212.514.9385 x118</span></div>
<div><a href="dwc@urbangreencouncil.org" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">dwc@urbangreencouncil.org</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b><font color="#ccda4b"><span style="font-size: 12px;">THE WORLD'S FIRST UNDERGROUND PARK </span></font></b></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">July 19 | Grohe</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.ebies.org/" style="font-family: Helvetica;"></a><a href="http://ugc.nyc/design-efficiency"></a><a href="http://urbangreencouncil.org/content/events/worlds-first-underground-park">http://ugc.nyc/design-lowline</a></span></div>
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