Congratulations to our good friend, Joe Anglin! Your work will be appreciated by generations to come! We wish you a long and fruitful retirement!
Joe Anglin plans his retirement from Glatting Jackson
July 3, 2008 - Anglin’s career as a landscape architect and planner began in 1968 with Sasaki Associates in Massachusetts. He joined Glatting Jackson in 1982. Over the course of his career, Anglin’s work won nearly 50 awards. In 2005, he was inducted into the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. (Read the entire story)
Orlando Sentinel Editorial:
April 27, 2008 – Our position: It's great to see "green" development, but more are needed
Orange County keeps working at becoming one of the greener counties around. It's trying to get solar and other eco-energy sources to provide at least 15 percent of the power that county-owned buildings will generate in the next 15 years. And it says all new county buildings will meet independent green standards.
Good, as far as that goes. But the county's not yet requiring the same tough standards of new developments. (Read the entire story)
Castle & Cooke, Florida Joins U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to Launch Builders' Challenge in Orlando, Florida
February 12, 2008 – Castle & Cooke, Florida Ltd., joined today with U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to announce a new national energy-saving initiative – the U.S. Department of Energy’s Builders Challenge. Castle & Cooke, Florida, Ltd. was at the Builders Challenge kick-off event held at the International Builders Show in Orlando, Florida...(Read the entire story)
News: Business
Building green is goal in Oakland Park
Castle & Cooke calls it 'a walkable community' and says it is 'planned around a connected network of streets and trails.' There are strict rules to follow when building a home according to "green" standards. Creating an entire green community is even trickier. But the Developers of Oakland Park est. 1844, a new community of traditional homes being built on the southern shore of Lake Apopka, aim to do just that...(Read the entire story)
Oakland Park Developer Preserves Trees, Earns 'Green' Certification
June 15, 2007 ~ A sprawling live oak weighing more than 50 tons was carefully uprooted and moved Thursday by Castle & Cooke Florida to a special spot within a new development it is building in west Orange County.
The tree is the largest of dozens of oaks the developer is moving to preserve as work begins on the community, called Oakland Park... (Read the entire story)
Castle & Cooke's Oakland Park will be Orlando Area's First Certified 'Green Development'
May 1, 2007 ~ The Florida Green Building Coalition has certified Oakland Park as a "green development." Every home built in Oakland Park also will be certified as "green." The green designation reflects Oakland Park's commitment to standards that create a sense of community, connect neighborhoods, preserve open space, protect the natural ecosystem and maximize energy efficiency. Oakland Park's pledge to a green future has been written into the community's covenants and deed restrictions... (Read the entire story) |
