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Symbolic sprinkling

Posted on April 18, 2007April 18, 2007 by Staff


Photo by Kirk Ross

It wasn’t a groundbreaking, but a symbolic sprinkling of rainwater on native plants that marked the official event celebrating the pending construction of the new North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Visitor Education Center Saturday on Laurel Hill Road.

The center is the first building at a major U.S. campus to be designed as a Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) structure, the highest certification given by the U.S. Green Building Council.

The privately funded center is expected to open in fall of 2008. Joining student leaders Janie Hauser and Jesse Prentice-Dunn are Bill Bracey, president of the botanical Garden Foundation, Peter White, director of the garden, Lt. Governor Beverly Perdue and Chancellor James Moeser.

In an agreement with the town, Laurel Hill Road will be closed, possibly as early as this fall, and the pavement replaced with greenspace between the new center and the garden’s habitat collections.

1 thought on “Symbolic sprinkling”

  1. Terri says:
    April 21, 2007 at 7:19 am

    The UNC student-funded Renewable Energy Special Project is helping to fund the NC Botanical Gardens Visitor Center. Our students are becoming more and more active in promoting renewable energy and putting their money to work to drive the change.
    http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may06/gardensgift052306.htm

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