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grantandpowerlandscaping · 1 year ago
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Darien Landscaping Services Company | Landscape Design Darien
Transform your outdoor space with our professional landscaping services in Darien. We specialize in landscape design, installation, & maintenance services in Darien.
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miniaturetalecrown · 9 months ago
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Hetalia Character Profiles - Scotland
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Character Name: Scotland. Mhairi Eilidh McDougall (858-1295), Mhairi Eilidh McDougall-Bonnefoy (1295-present), Ri (by Shannon, Dylan, Alfred, Jake, and Rachel), Cherie (by Francis), Mum/Mother (by Matthew).
Age: Human - Baby, toddler, and child (500s-858), Teenager (858-1500), Appears 18 by 1500, 26 in the modern day.
Height: 5”6 (167cm).
Physical Description: Average height, Mhairi is the second shortest of her siblings, being only an inch taller than her older sister, Shannon (Ireland), and being shorter than both Dylan (Wales) and Arthur (England). Mhairi has a strong hourglass figure with broad shoulders.
Eye Colour: Emerald green.
Hair Colour/Style: Long dark red messy curls, Mhairi often has her hair up in ponytails and buns to keep her hair out of her face. Mhairi’s hair is also very thick and gets everywhere.
Other Physical Traits: Freckles all over her face and body. Mhairi also has her ears pierced, a nose stud, a tongue piercing, a Celtic tattoo on her left leg, a thistle tattoo on her right arm, and a Scottish unicorn tattoo on her back. Mhairi doesn’t have the infamous Kirkland eyebrows like Dylan and Arthur.
Personal Appearance/Style: Mhairi wears a lot of black, blues, reds, and purples. Mhairi’s wardrobe is full of comfy t-shirts, jumpers, a couple of kilts, pencil skirts, and dresses. Mhairi only wears dresses and skirts for meetings and special occasions.
Verbal Style: Mhairi speaks with a broad Scots accent. Mhairi also speaks Scottish Gaelic and Scots as well as English.
Education: Mhairi is well-educated and even taught Alfred (America), Matthew (Canada), Jake (Australia), and Rachel (New Zealand) when they were young.  Mhairi has a degree in nursing and a degree in midwifery that she earned in the 1920s.
Occupation: Diplomat. Mhairi in her spare time, works as a nurse. During the pandemic, Mhairi worked as a nurse to help ease the strain on the health service.
Past Occupations: A military nurse, a military officer during the Second World War, and a teacher.
Skills, Abilities or Talents: Mhairi is a talented dancer and enjoys traditional Highland dancing, including sword dancing. Mhairi is also a talented artist and paints landscapes in her spare time with Francis (France). Mhairi also enjoys baking and often bakes cakes, Scottish tablet, and biscuits.
Positive Personality Treats: Friendly, an animal lover, compassionate, and outdoorsy.
Negative Personality Traits: Stubborn and can be hot-headed.
Sense of Humour: Sarcastic, dark, and witty.
Physical/Mental Illnesses or Afflictions: Mhairi was badly affected by the failures of the Jacobite risings in 1715 and 1745, as well as the aftermath when her culture was outlawed. Mhairi has never fully forgiven Arthur for what happened during the period. In 1700, Mhairi lost her younger child, Lachlann (New Caledonia/Darien), after the Scottish colony in modern-day Panama failed. The loss of her child deeply affected Mhairi, and it still affects her.
Hobbies/Interests: Dancing, baking, painting, singing, playing bagpipes, and hiking.
Favourite Foods: Haggis, macaroni pies, and stovies.
Most Important Personal Items: Her sapphire engagement ring, her family photo albums, and her collection of Scottish artworks.
Person/Friend Close to Character: Her older sister and best friend, Shannon. Mhairi and Shannon are the closest siblings of the British Isles and often spend time together, usually hiking. Mhairi tries to visit Shannon at least once a month, and Shannon will also try to visit Mhairi. The sisters share a lot of history together, and they can both speak Irish and Scottish Gaelic, as the languages are similar. The two were Suffragettes in the 1900s and 1910s, along with Rachel, and all three often went to protests around the UK.
Background: Mhairi was born around the 500s AD to Caledonia and Brittannia. Mhairi is the second eldest of four and the youngest daughter. Mhairi is close to Shannon and Dylan but has a strained relationship with Arthur after he invaded her in the 1290s, but it wasn’t until the 1700s that their relationship hit an all-time low. In October 1295, Mhairi married Francis, and the two formed an alliance; they married as they were both at war with Arthur at the time. In 1621, Mhairi gave birth to her firstborn, Matthew, with Shannon as her midwife.
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booknridecarservice · 7 months ago
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Luxury Rides to New Canaan's Top Golf Spots: Your Limousine Service Guide
New Canaan, Connecticut, is not only known for its affluent community and picturesque landscapes but also for its exceptional golf courses. For golf enthusiasts looking to indulge in a day of luxury and relaxation on the greens, New Canaan offers some of the finest golfing experiences in the region. Below we will discuss the top golf courses in New Canaan and how you can elevate your golfing experience with a New Canaan Limo Service.
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Country Club of New Canaan:
Nestled in a serene setting, the Country Club of New Canaan is a private club renowned for its challenging yet scenic 18-hole golf course.
Book-N-Ride offers seamless transportation to and from the Country Club of New Canaan, ensuring you arrive in style and comfort for your tee time. Enjoy a stress-free journey and focus on your game.
Pound Ridge Golf Club:
Located just across the border in Pound Ridge, New York, Pound Ridge Golf Club is a championship course designed by Pete Dye, offering a blend of natural beauty and strategic challenges.
Experience the ultimate convenience with Book-N-Ride's luxury transportation to Pound Ridge Golf Club. Relax during the ride and arrive ready to tackle the course with energy.
Woodway Country Club:
Situated in nearby Darien, Connecticut, Woodway Country Club boasts a meticulously maintained golf course surrounded by lush greenery and scenic views.
Let Book-N-Ride handle your transportation to Woodway Country Club, allowing you to focus on enjoying the game and the stunning surroundings without worrying about traffic or parking.
Oak Hills Park Golf Course:
Located in neighboring Norwalk, Connecticut, Oak Hills Park Golf Course offers a challenging layout with picturesque landscapes, making it a favorite among local golfers.
Enhance your golfing experience by choosing Book-N-Ride's luxury transportation to Oak Hills Park Golf Course. Arrive refreshed and ready to tee off for a memorable round.
Rockrimmon Country Club:
Just a short drive from New Canaan in Stamford, Connecticut, Rockrimmon Country Club features an 18-hole course that combines natural beauty with strategic design elements.
Enjoy a stress-free journey to Rockrimmon Country Club with Book-N-Ride's reliable transportation services. Focus on your game while we take care of the travel details.
Conclusion:
Elevate your golfing experience in New Canaan by combining the beauty of premier golf courses with the luxury New Canaan CT Limo Car Service offered by Book N Ride Executive Car Service. Whether you're heading to the Country Club of New Canaan or exploring nearby courses, Book-N-Ride ensures a seamless and stylish journey, allowing you to focus on what matters most – enjoying the game and the stunning landscapes of Connecticut and New York.
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hoffmanlandscapes · 2 years ago
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Hoffman Landscapes
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fatehbaz · 4 years ago
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regarding the difference between a forest and a tree plantation. again today, encountered a headline about this. because of some highly-publicized academic research in late 2019, involving comparisons between Colombian and Southeast Asian plantations, all of these “authoritative” and “serious” Scientists and revered academic journals have recently been talking about “sustainable” plantations in Colombia in 2019/2020. which they only qualify as: plantations can be sustainable if they provide “vegetative cover” or perform “carbon storage” and “ecosystem services”, which are suspect categories of Euro-American values systems and veiled neocolonial/extractivist logic to begin with. but these grand-sounding scientific articles and headlines fail to consider that, uh, regardless of whether or not a landscape “performs ecosystem services,” plantations harm actual human beings, especially the Indigenous and Afro-descendant people who depend on those forests in the Choco-Darien bioregion (one of the rainiest and most biodiverse locations on the planet) where plantations are expanding. Choco-Darien bioregion’s human communities: 90% Afro-descendant. the nation of Colombia is the world’s fourth-largest producer of palm oil. (outside of Southeast Asia, the nation of Colombia is the world’s largest producer.) “climate and wildlife friendly” plantations? hard to believe that statement to begin with, but how friendly are the plantations to communities of Colombia? did these esteemed Euro-American academic institutions just ... forget to consider this before flooding pop-sci magazines with headlines like this?
stuff on dispossession and palm oil plantations in the Choco-Darien bioregion:
-- Ulrich Oslender. “Geographies of the Pluriverse: Decolonial Thinking and Ontological Conflict on Colombia’s Pacific Coast.” January 2019.
-- Taran Volckhausen. “How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse.” Mongabay. 31 May 2018
-- Arturo Escobar, “Thinking-Feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimensions of the Epistemologies of the South.” Revista de Antropologica Iberoamericana. 2016.
-- Claudia Leal. Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia. 2018.
and for “technical” info:
-- Fagua, Baggio, and Ramsey. “Drivers of forest cover changes in the Chocó‐Darien Global Ecoregion of South America.” Ecosphere. March 2019. And also: Camila Fagua and R Douglas Ramsey. “Geospatial modeling of land cover change in the Chocó-Darien global ecoregion of South America; One of most biodiverse and rainy areas in the world.” PLOS One. February 2019.
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Even if the relations that keep the mangrove-world always in a state of becoming are always changing, to mess up significantly with them often results in the degradation of such worlds. Such is the case with industrial shrimp farming schemes and oil palm plantations for agro-fuels, which have proliferated in tropical regions in many parts of the world, often built at the expense of mangrove and humid forest lands, with the aim to transform them from ‘worthless swamp’ to agro-industrial complexes (Ogden 2010). Here, of course, we find […] the conversion of everything that exists in the mangrove-world into ‘nature’ and ‘nature’ into ‘resources’; the effacing of the life-enabling materiality of the entire domains of the inorganic and the  non-human, and its treatment as ‘objects’ to be had, destroyed, or extracted; and linking the forest worlds so transformed to ‘world markets’ for profit. In these cases, the insatiable appetite […] spells out the progressive destruction of the mangrove-world, its ontological capture and reconversion by capital and the State. […] Another clear case […] comes from the  southernmost area in the Colombian Pacific, around the port city of Tumaco. Here, since the early 1980s, the forest has been destroyed and communities displaced to give way to oil palm plantations. Inexistent in the 1970s, by the mid-1990s they had expanded to over 30,000 hectares. The monotony of the plantation – row after row of palm as far as you can see, a green desert of sorts – replaced the diverse, heterogeneous and entangled world of forest and communities. […] The ‘plantation form’ effaces the relations maintained by the forest-world.
[Arturo Escobar. “Thinking-feeling ...” 2015.]
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Researcher Victoria Marin-Burgos’ studies on palm oil expansion between 2000 and 2010 showed that Uribe’s special treatment helped to expand palm oil projects into municipalities that had experienced high and medium levels of displacement. Marin-Burgos [...] said that Carlos Murgas, who served as Agricultural Minister during the presidency of Uribe’s predecessor Andres Pastrana, was responsible for developing the “palm oil model” [...]. Murgas’ palm oil business Oleoflores S.A. received support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) [...]. However, critics such as Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ) lawyer Jhenifer Mojica said that the ZIDRES law would “spearhead the expansion of the multinational agroindustrial groups in Colombia.”Mojica said the ZIDRES land use changes will effectively “legalize the accumulation of land” that agribusiness interests “illegitimately obtained [...].“ In an interview with Fede/palma trade magazine Palm/icultor, J**** E***** V****, who played a critical role in crafting the ZIDRES legislation, said the land ownership model in the baldios would change to “surface rights that would allow for land exploitation.” [He] explained that the surface rights would not be affected by Colombia’s laws against land accumulation because a single business owner, entity or multinational corporation could “buy various surface rights” without being required to own the title to the land.
[Volckhausen. “How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse.” Mongabay. 31 May 2018.]
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halsteadproperty · 6 years ago
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Small Business Spotlight Series: Best Ice Cream Shops in the NY Metro Area
Sweltering temperatures, heat vapors rising from the black tar streets, wafts of cool air hitting you as you pass open storefronts; the summer heat in the city can wear you down. Yet, there is always one common treat that will serve as Ol Reliable – and that is the cool taste of ice cream. From gelato to sorbet, sundaes to Italian ice, our agents all around NY, NJ and CT have the best recommendations for your next summer treat.
The Lemon Ice King of Corona
52-02 108th St, Corona, NY 11368
When you want some fun, a change of scenery and the perfect cool treat on the dog days of summer, look no further than The Lemon Ice King of Corona, Queens! “This family owned business with a homemade, secret recipe offers 100 flavors of the best Italian ices in all of New York, dare I say the world!” says agent Maryann Johnson. “On a hot summer night, my girlfriends and I would get in the car and drive on the LIE to 108th Street Corona and order not one, but two or three of the most flavorful, homemade, fresh summer flavors, like lemon, coconut, watermelon, mango and so much more!” The Lemon Ice King has been a unique and colorful dessert destination for over 60 years. Stay and enjoy your ice while watching a traditional and competitive Bocce game in Spaghetti Park, or head over to Citi Field and cheer on the NY Mets.
(Recommended by Maryann Johnson of our Upper West Side office)
Milkcraft
1215 Post Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824
“New technology ice cream with lots of novelty makes Milkcraft a Connecticut staple,” says agent Sheila Higgins. The trendy creamery freezes every scoop to order with food grade Liquid Nitrogen, which creates smaller ice crystals when freezing, and results in the smoothest possible ice cream. Their caramelized Hong Kong style waffles are made from scratch to order and their hot Creamee buns are made fresh daily, along with artisan toppings.
(Recommended by Sheila Higgins of our Wilton office)
Emack and Bolio’s
389 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10026
Emack & Bolio’s is so good that The New York Times called it “an ice cream shop with more than a lick of promise” and Good Housekeeping labeled them as “the best ice cream purveyors in the country.” Talk about a seal of approval. According to agents Keith Marder and Olga Bidun of the OK Team, their best flavors include ice cream based Deep Purple Chip, S’Moreo, salted caramel chocolate pretzel, chunk of funk and grasshopper pie as well as “The Original Oreo.” They also have sorbet and low-fat options. “Most flavors have great texture with the addition of Oreos, chips, pretzels, etc. and for some added crunch you can get a gargantuan waffle cone dipped in things like Nutella, Cookie Krisp cereal, sprinkles and Capt’n Crunch,” says the team.
(Recommended by the Olga and Keith Team of our West Side office)
Sugar Hill Creamery
184 Lenox Ave, New York, NY 10026
An indie ice cream shop in Harlem, this family-owned spot offers scoops (including non-dairy varieties) in both familiar and creative flavors.
“They use really high-end ingredients and have funky, savory flavors. In the summer they need to have an employee making ice cream all night long to keep up with summer demand.” – Jeffrey Green of our Harlem office
“Sugar Hill Creamery has an old-fashioned neighborhood feel with an artsy flair from the mural on the wall to the roasted corn and jalapeno flavors. The owners are there scooping and greeting folks at the door!” - Leanne Stella of our Harlem office
Saugatuck Sweets
575 Riverside Ave, Westport, CT 06880
A unique spot located in the beautiful river-front inlet neighborhood of Saugatuck in Westport, Connecticut. Nothing like a moonlit night sky near the waterfront and an awesome ice cream cone creation of your own making,” says agent Sheila Gallo. Saugatuck Sweets is within walking distance from the train and serves as an easy night out of Manhattan.
(Recommended by Sheila Gallo of our Westport office)
Anopoli Ice Cream Parlor and Family Restaurant
6920 3rd Ave Brooklyn NY, 11209
In an age of trendy ice-cream shops dishing up exotic flavors, agent Shira Rosenhaft always loves to visit this tried and true time capsule of a diner and soda fountain that happens to make their own ice cream, too. It’s like stepping back in time - the Kelly-green booths are the perfect place to enjoy an old-fashioned sundae or a root beer float, and much of the place looks unchanged since the early 1900s. The ice-cream flavors are simple - chocolate, vanilla, pistachio - but delicious. And, its central location amongst the hustle and bustle of Third Avenue’s shops and restaurants in Bay Ridge makes it the perfect spot to stop and cool off. 
(Recommended by Shira Rosenhaft of our Global Services office) 
Ample Hills Creamery
623 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Extraordinary ice cream is an understatement when it comes to Halstead favorite, Ample Hills Creamery. At one point in time cows grazed on Brooklyn's lush ample hills. Although the cows are gone, and the grassy hills have made way for rows of brownstones, the pastoral small-town spirit of old Brooklyn lives on at our neighborhood ice cream shops and in the playful, nostalgic flavors we create.
“What makes Ample Hills ice cream special is the mix-ins. My personal favorite is the Pistachio Brittle. They make pistachio brittle (think “peanut brittle”) and put large chunks of it in wonderfully flavored pistachio ice cream. The flavors are creative and unique with fun names and again, those mix-ins!” – Jenet Levy of our Park Avenue office
“The Ample Hills Creamery down on Union Street in Gowanus is a favorite stop.  Located at the corner of Union and Nevins, it stands out as an oasis in the post-industrial landscape. And of course, the Ice Cream is fantastic.” - Lisa Gaytan of our North Slope office
“Flavors change regularly, and they are currently offering Oooy Gooy Butter Cake and PB Wins the Cup among many others - plain and fancy!” - Perri Defino of our Bed-Stuy office
“Best ice cream by far is Ample Hills. Specifically, the vibe of the Vanderbilt Avenue location. Peppermint Patty with hot fudge is to die for. My boys always go for Chocolate Milk and Cookies and my husband is partial to Salted Crack Caramel. The staff is always full of energy, super nice and the cone size is enormous! Gets my vote for best ice cream in NYC!” - Karen Wolfe of our Park Slope office  
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
1 Water Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 
What is better than waterfront ice cream with views of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge? “The Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is one of Brooklyn’s best ice cream shops,” agent Jared Goodloe says. Whether you are taking the ferry after a long day, walking your dog along the pier, or just out on the town Brookly Ice Cream Factory is the perfect stop. “Due to high demand, the line can be a little long but don’t let that stop you. The factory has a vast assortment of flavors and toppings to fit all your desires,” Goodloe says.
(Recommended by Jared Goodloe of our Park Slope office)
Gofer Ice Cream 
1020 Boston Post Rd, Darien, CT 06820
Gofer Ice Cream opened in 2004 in the heart of Darien on picturesque main street. People passing by can see families enjoying their unique products like Gofer Lite, Go-Yo, Milk Shakes, Razzles, Gofer Cakes and more. It is a favorite spot for locals to walk or bike into town for a summer treat. The shop features a few small tables inside, but most people prefer to sit out on the patio watching the buzz downtown. They have been so successful that agent Cheryl Williams placed them in a second location in Wilton, CT in 2014 near the Wilton High School, Wilton Deli and adjacent to the football field. You can hear kids across town asking their parents if they can "Go Fer" ice cream tonight!
(Recommended by Cheryl Williams of our Darien office)
UES
1707 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10128
This ice cream shop is like no other (keep reading for the secret info!). The large neon cone awning strikes you from a distance along with the typical line of patrons eagerly awaiting entrance, but nothing is what is seems.  The vibrant and cozy bubble-gum pink shop offers a unique rotating menu of delicious flavors such as banana brownie, ginger and espresso cookie coupled with chocolate chip and M&M cones. Why is everyone dressed to impress for ice cream? Say the magic words and you are transformed to an elegant 1920s prohibition-style speakeasy behind the mystery door serving decadent cocktails at the large bar or tufted banquets outfitted with chandeliers, exposed brick and other classy homages to Upper East Side culture. Contact Rory for the secret password!
(Recommended by Rory S. Clark of our Village office and Elissa Drassinower of our West Side office)
Sundaes and Cones
95 E 10th St, New York, NY 10003
“On East 10th St. in the East Village is the best ice cream shop I have ever encountered,” agent Robert Brody says. Though located on a side street, it still attracts a big following. The scoops can be in a cup or cone. “Though a bit pricey, it is worth the extravagance,” explains Brody.
(Recommended by Robert A. Brody of our East Hampton office)
Fro-Yo
43 S Euclid Ave, Montauk, NY 11954
Katie Haggerty’s favorite spot on Euclid street in Montauk is Fro-Yo & Gelato. “It’s right next to the jitney spot and the minute you arrive to Montauk you are welcomed to the best little ice cream spot,” she explains. The days you leave Montauk you grab your treats at Fro-Yo and back to reality, leaving your happy place in Montauk.
(Recommended by Katie Haggerty of our East Hampton office)
Scoop Du Jour
35 Newtown Ln, East Hampton, NY 11937
Snuggled amidst all the beautiful high-end shops and restaurants is Scoop Du Jour, a tiny shop on Newtown Lane and one of Margaret Turner’s favorite ice cream spots. “When you walk in to the narrow shop you feel like you’re back in the 70's with the dim lighting, the old posters and pictures of earlier times in East Hampton and the old rod iron chairs with lumpy cushions. But you’ll delight on the yummy ice cream in over 15 flavors and tons of different toppings,” says Turner. If you don't feel like ice cream, you can order a good old grill cheese sandwich or burger.
(Recommended by Margaret Turner of our East Hampton office)
Brendan's 101
101 Rowayton Ave, Rowayton, CT 06853
Brendan's has continued its 133-year tradition as the centerpiece of village activity. “Whether a grocery store, library, arts center, lobster house, antique house or the gathering place for the "Rising Sons of Temperance" to keep liquor out of Rowayton, Brendan’s 101 has always been Rowayton's place to meet,” says agent Gwen Alexis.   Now open year-round and offering breakfast, lunch and dinner, it's signature all-natural ice cream remains it's heart and soul. Each year at the town's major fund raiser, the River Ramble, Brendan's donates the coveted "Golden Cone," giving the highest bidder an ice cream cone a day for life! To date there are 30 "Golden Cones" in existence.
(Recommended by Gwen Alexis of our Darien office)
Van Leeuwen
48 1/2 E 7th St, New York, NY 10003
The Classic Michel Cluizel chocolate ice cream is to die for! Homemade dark chocolate fudge and chunks of homemade gooey chocolate chip brownies is such a rich treat, no other chocolate ice cream compares!  The vegan ice cream in coffee flavor is a winner too! You will be in heaven on earth!” – Roni Pall of our Cobble Hill office
(Recommended by Fern Hammond of our Park Avenue office and Roni Pall of our Cobble Hill office) 
Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain
513 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
“They serve Adirondack Creamery ice cream which is the purest you can get. It was converted from an actual pharmacy and now is set as an old fashioned “soda shoppe.” They have live music and amazing food too.” – Anna Shagalov of our Village office
“This place looks like you walked back in time and the sundaes are unique.” – Marta Quinones
Bischoff's Confectionary
468 Cedar Ln, Teaneck, NJ 07666
The best ice cream in NJ, and in Sabina L. Feiler-Fluger’s opinion, the entire country, is at Bischoff's Confectionary in Teaneck, NJ. Going to Bischoff's was like winning the lottery when she was a kid. “We would select a flavor and sometimes sit at the bar, or at the booths in the back and the ice cream was always served in old school, metal dishes on top of a small white ceramic plate. They still do that today,” explains Sabina. This place is legendary and exactly what you would imagine a traditional ice cream parlor to look like. It opened in 1934, has been family run through generations. It still maintains relics of a 1950's style parlor with wood paneling, an antique mirror with the logo etched on it, two sides to the shop- one with ice cream in a multitude of flavors scooped out of antique metal freezers, and the other side sells candy- chocolates, hard candy, gummies, even toys. “They have the BEST coffee chip ice cream, and all sorts of flavors- basic and unique, even weekly specials,” says Sabina. They have been written up in many publications as one of the top places to go in NJ for ice cream.
(Recommended by Sabina L. Feiler-Fluger of our Hoboken office)
Serendipity 3
225 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022
Divinely decadent and devilishly delectable, Frozen Hot Chocolate is the signature item at Serendipity! In addition, you can find the most outrageous sundaes, milkshakes, cakes, pies, and cookies to satisfy any sweet tooth. “You can’t beat the drugstore sundae at serendipity,” says agent Zoraida Morales.
(Recommended by Zoraida Morales of our Park Avenue office)
Uncle Louie G
157 Prospect Park SW, Brooklyn, NY 11218
From stick ball on the street to sitting on the stoop, out of all the memories, the one treat that made summer what it was, in all its sweet goodness was Italian Ices. Uncle Louie G’s has been a staple in Brooklyn and continues to provide that old-fashioned feeling when you enter. It’s just a great spot on the stroll along the park in Brooklyn.
(Victoria Vinokur of our Park Avenue office)
Dolce Brooklyn
305 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Dolce Brooklyn gelato starts with all natural, award winning milk from the Hudson Valley and only the finest ingredients are added to create our gelato & sorbetto (vegan).  Each flavor is made on premise in small batches to ensure freshness. Chef Kristina sources many of the fresh fruits and vegetables from the local farmer's market and other top ingredients from specialty markets. Agent Gerard Splendore recommends the chocolate bourbon gelato!
(Recommended by Gerard Splendore of our Brooklyn Heights office)
L’Albero Dei Gelati
341 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
“They have some of the best gelato that I've eaten outside of Italy. In fact, I like the consistency of the gelato here just a little bit better because it doesn't melt quite as fast.” - Joanna Mayfield Marks
(Recommended by Joanna Mayfield Marks of our Cobble Hill office)
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architectnews · 3 years ago
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New Davison Art Gallery, Connecticut
New Davison Art Gallery Design USA, Connecticut Architecture Images, Wesleyan University News
New Davison Art Gallery in Connecticut
August 3, 2021
Location: Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA
Design: Peterson Rich Office with Newman Architects
Address: 252 Church St, Middletown, CT 06459, United States
Peterson Rich Office unveils design for new Davison Art Gallery in Connecticut, USA
New Davison Art Gallery Building Design
Middletown, CT, USA; August 3, 2021 – Today Peterson Rich Office (PRO) and Wesleyan University simultaneously unveiled and announced breaking ground on the new Davison Art Gallery. A significant and historic project for the 190-year-old liberal arts university, the PRO-designed 5,550 square foot art building will dramatically enhance Wesleyan’s student-serving facilities and integrate visual art into daily campus life as the first new art building in over 50 years, following the Center for the Arts completed in 1973 and designed by the late Kevin Roche. PRO is completing the project in collaboration with Newman Architects, a New Haven-based architecture firm working on other significant projects on campus, including the renovation of the connected Public Affairs Center.
Established in 1952, Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center holds an art collection of more than 25,000 works—including one of the finest print collections at any university in the United States, with works by Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, and Manet—but had not had adequate or archival space to store it or to exhibit it to the nearly 4,000 students, faculty and staff on its 360-acre campus.
Nestled between the University’s Public Affairs Center (PAC), currently undergoing renovation and expansion, and the historic McKim, Meade & White-designed Olin Memorial Library, PRO’s contemporary gallery will be accessible through the PAC and library, as well as creating a prominent new entrance and campus presence facing a great lawn along Church Street to the south. The new building will facilitate the multi-disciplinary study of visual culture in a space designed to foster community while also better connecting the east-west flow between buildings and north-south flow to Andrus Field. It will provide the exhibition component to complete the art collection‘s new home in centrally located Olin Library, designed by Newman and constructed by FIP in 2019, a move to expand and improve collection storage and symbolize the intended use of the collection as a teaching and learning resource for all departments and disciplines.
On their design approach, PRO founding principals and lead architects Nathan Rich and Miriam Peterson stated, “The new gallery presents an opportunity to expand the visual arts from the iconic Kevin Roche-designed Center for the Arts to the very heart of the campus. The building is deliberately designed for interdisciplinary learning and to expose a range of students to this renowned collection.”
Paying homage to the Center for the Arts and complementing the library’s base material, the new Davison Art Gallery will be constructed with blocks of Indiana limestone. The main Church Street-facing side of the building features a sweeping roof and glass-walled lobby that elegantly distinguishes the art space from its more interior-focused neighbors. Upon entering visitors will immediately feel a sense of intimacy and community before entering an expansive gallery designed to display a variety of light-sensitive pieces from the Davison Art Center’s collection. The design puts equal emphasis on exterior space as it does interior, and is surrounding a teaching courtyard and forecourt gathering space to welcome outdoor learning and socializing.
Building on Wesleyan’s 2016-2021 Sustainability Action Plan, the new Gallery prioritizes energy efficiency and social sustainability. Features include a green roof, radiant floors, displacement ventilation, sensor-controlled LED lighting, solar panels, and low-maintenance native green space that will establish a new prototype for sustainable landscaping on campus.
Unanimously chosen through a design competition, the new Davison Art Gallery will be PRO’s first ground-up building for the arts and education, building on the founders’ experience as project architects for major cultural projects at firms Steven Holl Architects and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
With this project, PRO currently has three arts and culture projects underway, including the Rubin Museum of Art’s Mandala Lab, an innovative initiative that uses the mandala as inspiration for teaching social, emotional, and ethical learning, in New York City and a new live/work studio for the artist Nina Chanel Abney in Hudson Valley, both slated for completion this fall. The firm is also overseeing the soon-to-be-revealed transformation of a historic Catholic Church into a new gallery and arts center and housing design as part of a multi-phased neighborhood redevelopment plan in Detroit.
The targeted completion date for the new Davison Art Gallery is Summer 2023.
New Davison Art Gallery Design – Building Information
Client: Wesleyan University Location: 252 Church St, Middletown, CT 06459 Project Team: Peterson Rich Office (Design Architect); Newman Architects (Architect of Record); Michael Horton Associates (Structural); Van Zelm Heywood & Shadford (MEPFP); Fisher Marantz Stone (Lighting); Jonathan Leavitt Associates (Exterior Envelope); The Green Engineer (Sustainable Design); Langan Engineering (Landscape and Civil); FIP Construction (Construction Management) Size: 5,550 square feet Budget: Undisclosed
Status: Design Competition Winner, June 2019 Groundbreaking, June 2021 Expected Completion, Summer 2023 Expected Occupancy, Spring Semester 2024
Images © Peterson Rich Office
About Wesleyan University—Davison Art Center
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The Davison Art Center strives to inspire ambitious inquiry of ourselves and our world by fostering research, knowledge, and enjoyment of art. Home to Wesleyan University’s art collection, the DAC is dedicated to preserving, exhibiting, interpreting, and documenting the objects in its care, as well as strengthening the collection itself. The Art Center collection spans over six centuries of art, from the fifteenth century CE to the present, principally in print and photographic media. It also encompasses drawings, paintings, and artwork in other media. Website: Wesleyan University
About Peterson Rich Office
Peterson Rich Office (PRO) is a Brooklyn-based architecture and design firm recognized for its cultural and residential projects at multiple scales. Founded by Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich in 2012, the firm’s early work included an artist studio for Tula Telfair and New York City flagships for PERROTIN and Glossier. In recent years, the firm’s body of work has expanded to include a ground-up gallery building at Wesleyan University; a new gallery and arts center in Detroit; residential spaces for artist and design clients; and scalable design solutions for affordable public housing. Opening in fall 2021, the Mandala Lab at the Rubin Museum of Art will be PRO’s first museum project in New York City. Recent awards include being named a 2020 Emerging Voice by The Architectural League and part of Cultured’s inaugural Young Architects List. Website: Peterson Rich Office
About Newman Architects
Newman Architects is a renowned architectural and planning firm with offices in New Haven, Connecticut, and Washington, DC. Founded in 1964 by Herbert S. Newman, FAIA, the firm has received more than 150 awards for design excellence and has built a national reputation for the quality of its work and client service. Newman has designed academic, residential, and athletic buildings on more than fifty college and university campuses across the country. Website: Newman Architects
Address: 252 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459, United States of America Phone: +1 860-685-2500
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Colombia is that country to go to when you want to disconnect and enjoy the picturesque beauty of its streets, the friendliness of its people, always ready to help and, of course, relax on one of the best beaches in Colombia. We relate this destiny with color, joy, and life. Nothing better than squeezing it to the maximum lying on the sand or taking a bath in its crystalline waters.  To think about the summer, we have prepared a list of the most chosen beaches by Colombia, so that your trip is perfect. Discover them!
1. Playa Blanca, in Cartagena
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The Playa Blanca, besides being one of the best Colombian beaches, is the most famous on Barú Island. It is a beach crowded by countless tourists and travelers who arrive to enjoy the charms of this heavenly corner. It might not be a pleasant place for those looking for quiet beaches in Colombia, due to the massive tourism it receives. However, it is a destination that must be visited for sure, if you are a lover of paradisiacal beaches. The beauty of Playa Blanca is captivating, thanks to its calm turquoise waters and exquisite white sand. In addition, it is very close to Cartagena and has the attractiveness of nature, being surrounded by coconut trees and mangroves.
2. San Bernardo Archipelago, in Bolívar
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This archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea immerses us in the benefits of authentic paradise. It is two hours sailing from the well-known Cartagena de Indias and is made up of ten dream islands that are part of the Corales del Rosario National Park. If you wonder what to visit in Colombia, this is one of the places that can not be missed. Here we find islands as well known as Isla Boquerón, Isla Palma, Isla Cabruna, Isla Maravilla or Santa Cruz del Islote. Through them, beaches of Colombia extend that count on endless services so that the traveler feels an exquisite treatment. Among them, stand out the picturesque restaurants on the beach and several options to stay.
3. San Andres Island, in San Andrés and Providencia
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San Andres Island was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. Here we find a beautiful landscape formed by mangroves, coral reefs, exquisite palm trees, and beautiful sea meadows. Of the Colombian Islands, it is currently the favorite of travelers. The waters of different shades, ranging from deep blue to green through the light blue or turquoise, gives the origin of the nickname "Sea of ​​the Seven Colors". Bahía Sardina is one of the best beaches in San Andrés, an urban beach where a large part of the tourist services in the area can be found.
4. Beaches of Tayrona National Park, in Magdalena
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Tayrona Park is located near Santa Marta and is a reserve where we find spectacular landscapes, from the Sierra Nevada to the marine areas of the Atlantic Ocean. Here are some of the most spectacular beaches in Colombia. Among all of them, Playa La Piscina could be highlighted, one of the safest beaches in Tayrona Park. Here we find coral reefs, large rocks, and areas of jungle that are integrated up to the beach. Its waters are so crystal clear that they allow you to see corals and fish just without having to have any special equipment for it. Keep in mind that in Tayrona National Park we can find dangerous beaches for swimming, so it is convenient to be well informed or consult with the staff of the area.
5. Crystal Beach, in Santa Marta
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Crystal Beach is also found in the Tayrona National Natural Park, located in Santa Marta. It also stands as one of the beaches of Colombia preferred by tourists in recent years. This is due to its beauty, its crystalline waters, the tranquility that is perceived in it and, of course, the white and warm sands that make it a paradise on earth. Here you can swim, sunbathe or just relax and rest in its soft sand. If you have time, you can go kayaking, diving or snorkeling. In fact, even if you don't have the necessary equipment you can rent it once there. The key is to have fun, alone, with friends, or family. If you are on vacation in Colombia, Playa Cristal is a must-see.
6. Rosario Islands Archipelago, in Bolívar
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This archipelago is made up of 27 islands in the Caribbean Sea and is a great destination for tourism in Colombia. You can reach them after an hour and a half sailing from Cartagena de Indias. The territory is also part of the Corales del Rosario National Park, so they share the beautiful marine scenery of the Colombian Caribbean. On the Big Island of Colombia, we find most of the tourist services in the area. This is the island that has the largest size of the archipelago and in it, we find wonderful white sand beaches and warm waters, perfect to enjoy a quiet day at sea or practice water sports such as diving.
7. Taganga, in Magdalena
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A short distance from Santa Marta, we find a picturesque and curious fishing village. In this town we will stay with our mouths open thanks to its beautiful landscapes, seeing the mountains of an intense green will contrast with the beautiful Caribbean beaches that we will find in Colombia. In Taganga we will find Playa Grande, one of the most tourist beaches in Colombia. It is accessible from the village through a boat. Here you can immerse yourself in its crystalline waters to practice scuba diving or enjoy famous marine scenarios for its extensive coral reefs and great marine biodiversity. If you are thinking of traveling to Colombia, this destination cannot be missed.
8. Bahia Solano Bay, in Chocó
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Solano Bay, one of the best beaches in Colombia and is known as "The Whale Park". It is a beach on the shores of the Colombian Pacific. Here marvelous scenarios of mountains, tropical forests, waterfalls, and beautiful Colombian beaches converge that have great biodiversity. The humpback whales, which can be seen from July to October, stand out. Near here you can visit the reddish beach of Punta Huina that is ideal for sports such as snorkeling. You will also find nearby the Utría Natural National Park, which has a wide variety of marine and jungle ecosystems. It is considered one of the most biodiverse in the world.
9. Cabo de La Vela, in La Guajira
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If you plan to go sightseeing in Colombia, Cabo de la Vela is a great choice. It is located in La Guajira, north of South America and is another of the best beaches in the Colombian Pacific. It is a desert territory with incredible landscapes, and enjoying its charms is an adventure that any traveler should enjoy. Arriving here you can immerse yourself fully in the Wayuu culture. It is a different culture that has customs and rituals full of color, magic, and life. In addition, you will feel like in the Middle East thanks to the presence of the Omar Ibn Al-Jattab Mosque, a legacy of former immigrants who settled in the area. A great destination to learn more about Colombian culture, but also to enjoy family vacations. It should be noted that Cabo de la Vela is one of the most beautiful and economic beaches in Colombia next to La Guajira.
10. Capurganá, in Chocó
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This small town is on the edge of the border with Panama. Here you can enjoy the beaches of Capurganá, which are the most beautiful beaches in Colombia. It is possible to find huge cliffs, such as quiet coral bays. All of them bathed in the calm crystalline waters of the Caribbean Sea and the flora of the Darien Forest. One of the landscapes that we cannot ignore is La Piscina de Los Dioses, a natural pool where we can snorkel quietly. Also the Cascada del Cielo or Plamparejo Beach. Here you can swim among true corals that make up the beaches of the Colombian Caribbean, without a doubt, a dream come true. Read the full article
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A bright array of phalaenopsis, cattleyas, vandas, dendrobiums, and oncidiums stand in pots and hang graciously from stands inside the lobby of Hospice of the Golden Isles. As visitors and staff walk by, one man gently pulls off dead leaves and tends to the plants under his care. Some may need repotting, others periodic fertilizing. Under his careful eye, the plants provide a beautiful landscape inside, where passersby often comment on the curated garden.
Taylor Schoettle has been traveling from Darien once a week to tend to the orchids at the hospice facility for the past six years. Throughout his career, he has been a zoo curator in Puerto Rico, a marine education specialist with the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service in Brunswick, and a biology teacher. And now, he is known as the Orchid Man.
“It’s just like people who collect coins or glassware or antiques. For me, it’s orchids,” says Schoettle, who first started displaying his plants at the Nativity of Our Lady Catholic Church in Darien for two decades before moving them to Hospice of the Golden Isles.
“I can’t have a greenhouse with orchids and not have people enjoy them,” he says.
Schoettle’s greenhouse, which he built with the help of his sons, is filled with different types of orchids, from the exotic cattleyas to the classic phalaenopsis. He has been known to travel to Jacksonville for the orchid show in March each year. “You will be fascinated by what you see. Oftentimes, I like the weird ones,” he says.
But Schoettle didn’t immediately jump into growing orchids after he was given one while living in Puerto Rico. His first love was reserved for heliconia, known as the lobster-claw, wild plantain, or false bird-of-paradise. “They are very rich in color … bright, brilliant; My God, they are just amazing. I took some with me, but they kept dying,” he says.
So he shifted his focus to orchids and found the species to be more resilient than most people believe. With the right care and dedication, he says, the plants can thrive. And for those that don’t seem to bloom, don’t give up on them. “I had a vanda that didn’t flower for years. Then, I put it in front of a window and, all of a sudden, it flowers. Last year, of the flowers I had, most were vandas,” Schoettle says.
Dawn Hart of Ace Garden Center on St. Simons Island enjoys vandas, too. “They are smaller, but their blooms are a true blue orchid; not one that has been dyed, which there are some,” she says. “You can get blues and dark, dark purples in the vandas.”
Hart often has a display of orchids at the front of her nursery, with new arrivals every two weeks or so. Classic white phalaenopsis stand in pots next to blossoming cymbidiums. Orchid hanging baskets near the entrance are ready to be filled with cattleyas or dendrobiums.
Hart often sees a spike of orchid purchases during wedding season and before the holidays. At a higher price point among the houseplants, orchids are often given as gifts, Hart says. “Typically, people don’t want to indulge themselves, so that’s why it’s kind of a special gift. It might not be something you think to do yourself,” she says.
In fact, Hart was gifted her first orchid, just like Schoettle was. For both, the plants proved to be more resilient than they first thought. “Don’t be afraid of them. Even though they are delicate looking, they are a pretty great, long-lasting, interior houseplant. There’s not many as refined and elegant looking as an orchid,” Hart says.
Many orchids are ephiphytic, which mean they can live on other plants — such as trees — and derive moisture and nutrients from the air. Because of this, their roots are often exposed. Orchid growers know not to trim the roots that may extend over a pot; it’s actually a sign the plant is healthy, Hart says.
Moisture — but not necessarily water — is critical for orchid care. “Part of the problem is that people hear ‘tropical’ and think they need a lot of water, and they drown them. A lot of times, the roots really need air to breathe more than water,” Schoettle says. Think of the Amazon, he explains. High humidity and a mist that covers everything is hard to mimic inside our dry environments here, which is why many serious orchid enthusiasts have a greenhouse.
Drainage pots are ideal to avoid drowning the plants. For those kept indoors, orchids can stay in the grower pot inside a larger pot; that way the water can flow out of the smaller pot without leaking all over the furniture, Hart suggests.
For those who want to keep orchids inside the home, they need to consider places that avoid direct sunlight but provide a lot of bright, indirect, or filtered light. Hart says orchids tend to do well in bathrooms, where steam from showers and baths can mimic the humidity the plants enjoy.
Watering amounts depend upon the type of orchid medium used — bark uses more than moss, which allows for more aeration. The ice cube philosophy says you can water an orchid with one ice cube, but the trick is divisive in the orchid community. “Our orchid supplier doesn’t like that ice cube philosophy. He says the ice cube kind of shocks it. So he’s not a proponent of it,” Hart explains.
Even under the best conditions, sometimes orchids can be a bit finicky. “It can bloom for three weeks and then you won’t see it at all again. It happens,” Schoettle says. To enhance the chance of respiking, Hart suggests you cut lower down the stalk, not near the bloom, and above a joint.
While tropical conditions are best for the majority of orchids, certain types can grow in northern climates or higher altitudes, including odontoglossums, masdevallias, cymbidiums, and miltonias. Generally, most orchids need to live in environments above 60 degrees. They can handle a brief cold spell but nothing sustained. Think of it this way: Orchids tend to like the same degrees that humans prefer.
“There’s usually a space in any household to accommodate them,” Hart says. “I think they are a special gift for someone who has everything. And they are also long-lasting enjoyment for the homeowner. I don’t think they ever go out of style.”
The Orchid Primer
Phalaenopsis
Phalaenopsis, sometimes called the moth orchid, is a popular choice for orchid lovers today. “They are more popular and some people find them easiest,” says Hart.
While there are a variety of colors, most phals in stores are usually white or purple. And the blooms are long lasting; under the right conditions, they will flower for a few months. “In an ideal world, if you buy one that is both budded and blooming, you should get two to three months,” Hart says.
For Schoettle, phalaenopsis is a personal favorite. “It’s probably one of the most elegant kinds … rows and rows of those faces, so broad, so expressive. It’s also one of the easiest to bloom,” he says. “I don’t want to say they have been cheapened because they are so common. They haven’t; no, they haven’t. And when I was first doing orchids, they weren’t common.”
How to Keep Them Alive
Temps They can handle up to 90 degrees or as low as 60 degrees.
Water Don’t let them dry out. Potting mediums will determine how much water is retained; bark needs watering weekly whereas sphagnum should be watered when the top layer feels dry.
Light Low light or shaded areas are better. A key to look for are the leaves, which should be an olive green color. If they are darker, the plant isn’t getting enough light; if they have a red edge, they are getting too much light.
Cymbidium
Cymbidiums, which usually have several blooms on the plant, are a favorite of Hart. “So many different colors; they are beautiful,” says Hart, as she looks over a large display of orchids at Ace Garden Center. On that day, she has cymbidiums in mustard yellow and deep crimson colors that stand out amongst the purple and white phalaenopsis nearby.
Since cymbidiums can be a pricier option of orchid, they are popular choices to celebrate special occasions, found in corsages or bridal bouquets. “You know you are special when you get a cymbidium orchid corsage. Sometimes in bridal bouquets, you will see cymbidium orchids. White cymbidium would be a very classic upgrade,” Hart says.
How to Keep Them Alive
Temps Ideal range is 70 to 85 degrees and 55 at night.
Water Keep moist throughout the summer, can lessen to barely moist during winter. Mist the bottom on the plant, not the blooms. “A lot of blooms themselves prefer not to be misted. Just around the foliage,” Hart says.
Light Strong indirect light during summer. The leaves can burn, so check for a medium green color.
Dendrobium
Dendrobiums are taller options of orchids, and the smaller blooms aren’t the only eye-catching element. This orchid also has a cascading amount of foliage and roots. They also like to be in smaller pots, which enhance their height.
For Hart, she selects dendrobiums that have a lot of foliage — “that’s just part of it for me,” she says — and will use them in mixed arrangements where the dendrobiums provide the height and ferns can be nestled around the bottom. “If someone has a cachepot for the dining room table, just sitting one orchid in it doesn’t do much; but add plants around the bottom,” she says. “They can be potted in same pot. Some people will change things out and put them in their cachepot and then line the top with moss. That way, they can water everything individually.”
How to Keep Them Alive
Temps They can stand a bit of heat, as high as 95 degrees, and down to 45 degrees at night.
Water Water more during summer months, when the plant is growing. Less so in winter.
Light Dendrobiums like a lot of light, just not direct sun.
Cattleya
These exotic orchids have striking blooms with a ruffled fringe on the flower. Like cymbidiums, cattleyas can be found in wedding bouquets and corsages.
The vivid colors of cattleyas create a beautiful spray of flora inside one’s home. Cattleyas tend to do well in pots, and they can even handle the light on a windowsill. But as an epiphytic plant, these species thrive best when air can get to their roots. “You see them in hanging baskets. You can really do some dramatic things with them on tall house plants and on the trunk of the trees, where you have them in little indentations in the trunk and have them in there and spritz them,” Hart says.
Cattleyas come in different sizes, from large to miniature. “I tend to favor the big cattleyas. I love the intricacies of the faces,” Schoettle says.
How to Keep Them Alive
Temps Keep between 55 and 85 degrees.
Water The size of the plant matters in how often you water. Minis and seedlings will need to be watered more often, usually five to seven days, because they store less water in their pseudobulbs and roots. Larger ones can be watered every 10 days or so.
Light Light should be strong, but not direct. The leaves should be medium green, and the blooms should look healthy. If you are having difficulty with your plant blooming, it may not have enough light.
Source:  Golden Isles:  The Magazine for Brunswick, St Simons Island. Jekyll, & Sea Island, By:  Bethany Leggett
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Today i'm going to talk to you about the beautiful town of Capurganá. Here you can do many things and visit many places.
 Boats leave Capurganá almost every day. You can book your tickets online or use a travel agent. There are two options for travel to Capurganá:
Travel in boat from Turbo in 3 hours or from Necocli in 1 hour 45 minutes.
Travel in plane from Medellín, the travel has a duration of 45 minutes.
PLACES TO STAY.
If you have family here, you can stay with them, otherwise you can stay in a hotel or in a cabin.
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- Cabaña Pura Vida Pluss
Price: 330.909 .
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¿Wich services does my hotel have in my trip?
In my hotel there's tv but there isn't parking service, there are restaurants and the food is delicious, there isn't bar, but there's a fantastic service room, there's also tourist guide service.
 THINGS TO DO IN CAPURGANÁ
-You can do many things here:
-You can dive and see many species of fishes in the different beaches of Capurganá, also you can visit the town of sapzurro, is a beautiful town the people here is very friendly. You can visit the house of molas, the owner of this house is a very creative Man. If you want to see something more natural, the nature reserve called “El cielo", has some beautiful waterfalls.
There are excursions and camps for people who want to know more about the landscape. There are also hiking trails and many more activities to do.
  THINGS TO PACK
I often travel to Capurganá for my holidays. In my suitcase today, there's glasses, there's a phone charger, there are swimsuits, there's clothing, there's makeup, there are some shoes, there's Colgate, there's toothbrush, there's diving suit, there's shampoo, there's hair cream, there's Backpack, there’s a hat, there are pain pills, there's underwear, there's sunscreen, there are some pijamas, there's a pair of diving fins, there's insect repellente, there's a camera, there's headphones, there's documents identification and there's a comb.
 ITINERARY DAY ONE
-I get up at 6:30 in the morning to take a shower and be ready at 8:30am for breakfast in the hotel restaurant. I meet at 9am with my hiking group to know the place and take some pictures and then at noon we return to the hotel for have lunch together. From 2 to 4 we have free time to swim in the sea and at 5 we have a snack. At 5:20pm i'm going to do sightseeing around the place and meet people. I returned to the hotel at 7pm for a shower and at 8pm my group and i ended the night having and amazing dinner next to the beach. I go to bed at 10:00pm.
ITINERARY DAY TWO
-I get up at 6:30am and take a shower, at 6:50am i'm ready for have breakfast in the hotel. At 9:00am i have an excursion through The Darien viewpoint with my friends. I have a snack at 10:30am before lunch. At 1:00pm i have lunch with my friends in a restaurant near the beach. At 2:00pm we have a boat ride to go to the island of San Blas, at 3:00pm we arrived on the island and started swimming in the sea. At 5:00pm we drink cocktails and have a snack before returning to the hotel. I take a shower at 6:30pm and go to the restaurant. At 9:00pm we have a wood fire in the beach and we drink a lot of alcohol and i go to bed at 12:30am. ITINERARY DAY THREE -I get up at 8:30am and take a shower, i have a breakfast at 9:00 am, at 10:00 we go to buy souvenirs because it's the last day of vacations and we come home at 12:00 pm and is the end of my travel.
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This article has been updated to clarify that *accessory apartments have been allowed in Greenwich since the 1980s, though **not in the R6 zone, which is already zoned two-family as of right. Still there are only about 100 of these units in town.
At an affordable housing forum hosted by State Rep Kimberly Fiorello (R-149) and State Senator Tony Hwang (R-28) on Jan 19, hosts and panelists said new statewide zoning legislation would cede local zoning control to the State, and possibly might have adverse impacts to towns.
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The legislation could be introduced as early as Monday.
The elephant in the room was DeSegregate CT, a coalition founded by Sara Bronin that is crafting state legislation with the goal of increasing affordable housing in towns across the state, and in turn decreasing segregation.
Ms Bronin, who has an impressive CV – she is an architect, land use attorney and law professor – is also a preservationist, and only recently stepped down from her role of chair of Preservation CT.
Also, she served on Hartford’s P&Z commission from 2013 until this past summer.
“We’re not touching large lot zoning – at least not at this point. We’re not tackling some of the bigger things. We’re actually going for the things that are consensus, but high impact at low cost to towns.”
Sara Bronin, DeSegregate CT
The point of view of DeSegregate CT was absent during the Jan 19 town hall forum, but Jan 21 Bronin was the featured speaker on a Zoom talk titled “Making Urbanism Antiracist,” organized by YIMBY Action, a group of inclusive housing advocates.
Bronin said her group came to life in June, which was soon after George Floyd’s death prompted the #BlackLivesMatter movement and increased awareness across the country of systemic racism.
DeSegregate CT now has 55 organizational members.
“The truth is that Connecticut is an extremely segregated state. Not everybody believes that in Connecticut. So when some communities, some people hear desegregate, they think oh, gosh, it means, you know, crazy radicals are going to try to overrun my neighborhood with, you know, ‘those people.’”
Sara Bronin, DeSegregate CT
“What we’re proposing this year is really a package of reforms that won’t by themselves magically desegregate Connecticut,” Bronin said. Rather, she talked about the importance of increasing opportunities.
She said the effort had input from landscape architects, zoning enforcement officers and planners across the state
“The association of zoning enforcement officers have gone through our draft bills and said, ‘This will work, this will work.’ This is how a zoning officer would read this.”
“It’s been really heartening that our professionals have come together,” she added. “We’ve come to what we’re doing with taking everybody in and saying this is our problem.”
Bronin, whose husband Luke is the Mayor of Hartford, said she lived in the Capital’s downtown.
Hartford has a population of 125,000. Home ownership in the city is as low as 11% in some neighborhoods.
“Living in a city like Hartford, which is a very low income city, which is a 15% white city nestled in a sea of wealthy suburban towns in one of the wealthiest regions in the country,” she said. “The differences here, depending on your zip code, dictate your health outcomes, educational opportunities, your economic opportunities and your chance for inter-generational wealth.”
Community Character
“Character is a terrible word,” Bronin said, when asked about the term when it is used by zoning commissions.
“The reason the three preservation organizations in the state – Preservation Connecticut, Connecticut Main Street center and Connecticut Preservation Action – signed on to our language is because they wanted it to be known that character is not going to be used in their name to inflict racist outcomes on communities.”
“We have a case in a suburb, it’s in the court system, I won’t name it,” Bronin said. “The lawsuit is partly based on the fact that two of the commissioners, in the last few months, held a meeting where they essentially mocked an immigrant and his lawyer who said this person fears for his life because of zoning violations he’s brought before you. The commissioners joked about deporting him. That was their joke. You can’t legislate for that.”
Housing on Main Streets
Bronin said a key part of her group’s proposal was “Main Street Zoning,” which would call for towns to fast track two- to four-family housing, making it “as of right.”
“As of right” means proposals could be approved by staff without public hearings.
There would be no minimum parking requirements, within a quarter mile of a “main street” in towns with over 7,500 people or with “concentrated development” as defined by the Census.
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Bronin was whether “Main Street Zoning” might result in less affordable housing, and lead to both gentrification and more expensive housing. The cost of land in Greenwich is possibly the highest in the state.
In response, Bronin used the example of housing prices in NYC which have declined during the pandemic.
“It’s really true, the more supply you have, the lower the price will be,” she said.
Transit Oriented Development
According to the DeSegregate CT website, their proposal would bring housing with a minimum of 4 units to 50% of the lot area within 1/2 mile of fixed transit stations.
These would include commuter rail stations, bus rapid transit (not bus stops) and ferry terminals. These could be live-work units, mixed-use developments, or straight-up multifamily housing.
“Of course, some desirable density around train stations might not be affordable to everybody,” Bronin said. “(That’s why) one of the reasons we’ve put in our proposal a 10% affordability requirement for any building of 10 units. So if a town chooses to, and we hope they will, zone for a 10+ unit housing, every unit above 10 would have to be affordable.”
Bronin noted that Connecticut has no statewide rules on accessory dwelling units.
“We’re big believers in creating more housing, period. More housing opportunities, dividing the large houses we have into accessory dwelling reasons for environmental reasons, but also for opportunity reasons, and so on. We’re big believers in supply.”
Sara Bronin, DeSegregate CT
At Fiorello and Hwang’s town hall forum, panelist Francis Pickering director of WestCOG, said the proposed legislation was flawed in assuming that if developers could build multi family housing that it would increase affordable housing.
“Most Americans’ primary source of savings is their home equity,” he said. adding that state zoning legislation would “meddle” with that process.
“Given how critical home equity is in our society, we have to proceed delicately and not do things that could bankrupt one family and unduly enrich another family,” he added.
“Often developers find the greatest profit margin in the most expensive product,” Pickering added.
Also, during the Jan 19 town hall forum, Greenwich’s P&Z chair Margarita Alban said here in Greenwich, the commission had already made strides to remove barriers to creating accessory units.
*In fact, in Greenwich accessory apartments have been allowed since the mid 1980s, and recently a text amendment allowed them to be larger. Still there are only 100 of these units in town.
Last September the commission approved an amendment to encourage elderly and affordable accessory apartments.
Accessory apartments are not allowed in the R6 zone since two-family homes are already “as of right.”
The town also created an affordable housing task force and P&Z is collaboration with the housing authority.
The commission is also working to revise its 6-110 workforce housing regulation. It recently held a workshop attended by land use attorneys and developers.
Meanwhile developers continue to propose 8-30g developments. This is the state 8-30g affordable housing statute that waives local zoning regulations, including parking requirements, in order to achieve a percentage of affordable units in a proposed development. The statute applies to any Connecticut town that does not yet have at least 10% of its housing deemed affordable. And units owned/rented to employees of private schools, country clubs and Greenwich Hospital don’t count. They are not advertised on the open market.
The 8-30g applications will continue to be submitted in parallel to statewide zoning regulations if they are implemented.
Two 8-30g developments currently under consideration in Greenwich are 4 Orchard Street in Cos Cob and 28 Hollow Wood in Pemberwick.
The accusation of racism always stings.
While Bronin singled out New Canaan for their 4-acre zoning, their First Selectman said last week at the town hall forum that his town had instituted a fee to developers for a trust fund for affordable housing.
Darien and Westport both have inclusionary zoning, and both Ridgefield and New Canaan are in the process of drafting inclusionary zoning language.
Other panelists at Fiorello’s town hall argued there were better conversations to be had about racial justice and social equity.
Jayme Stevenson, First Selectman of Darien, said it was time for a conversation on improving the economy, generating jobs and improving education.
Cars and Parking Requirements
Bronin talked about how existing land use laws were car-centric and parking requirements resulted in higher housing prices.
The DeSegregate CT platform proposes to reduce parking requirements, which Bronin said ties people to their cars.
“Cars are a scourge on modern society,” she said, adding that parking requirements make housing more expensive and in turn force people to be in cars in order to commute to work. “It becomes this self perpetuating cycle.”
She said 4-acre zoning, the type found in New Canaan and Greenwich, represented a lifestyle that has lost popularity and given way to a preference for walkable downtown neighborhoods.
“That’s great and good for watershed protection,” she said of 4-acre zones. However, she noted, “Until the pandemic, a lot of that housing was not desirable. People from New York City have scooped it up, (but) it’s not the way people want to live any more.”
“We’re not touching large lot zoning – at least not at this point,” she said.
She said while on Hartford’s P&Z commission, the last three years of which she served as chair, they “pulled off the Bandaid,” and eliminated parking requirements city wide.
“We hope it is a radical move that will turn the city around. We’re not advocating (that) in DeSegregate CT,” she said. “We’re just asking for communities to stop their parking mandates that are more than one space for a studio or one bedroom.”
“Whether it’s a wealthy town, it’s a rural town, an urban town. There’s not a good case that’s made for the arbitrary parking requirement,” she continued. “We have some of the wealthiest towns in Connecticut requiring 3 parking spaces for a studio apartment. What does that do to the cost of the apartment or the building as a whole? Of course it makes it higher, keeps people out and prevents that development from ever actually happening…”
** While GFP couldn’t find a town that requires 3 parking spaces for a studio apartment, here in Greenwich, in the R6 zone, where two-family is allowed “as of right,” adding an accessory apartment to a single family home makes it technically a two-family home and subjects it to a parking formula requiring 1.5 spaces per bedroom. For a house with 5 bedrooms, just to add an accessory unit, a total of 8 parking spaces would be required.
Accessory Dwelling Units – ADUs
In addition to reducing parking requirements, DeSegregate CT’s platform includes a push to add accessory dwelling units (ADUs). They note that most of Connecticut’s towns already allow accessory dwelling units, but their goal is to make it much easier.
Bronin said zoning is neither preordained nor organic.
“They (towns) think it’s handed down from God,” she said. “Changing it is not going to result in bad places, crime and school overcrowding.”
She said zoning in Connecticut towns came about during periods of time when communities thought they should exclude certain groups of people, and tightened over time.
“This isn’t about local control,” she said, adding it was more about homeowners being able to carve out an accessory dwelling unit in their single family home.
The coalition submitted that because of their size, accessory dwelling units were “naturally affordable.”
Further, they say accessory dwelling units are neatly tucked into existing single-family housing, and neither alter the streetscape nor add to sprawl.
Another pillar of DeSegregate CT’s platform is to include a model codes, or “form based codes” developed at the state level.
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Bronin said when she served on the P&Z commission, Hartford switched to a form based code.
“We threw out the old code entirely and adopted a new code in one night,” she said. “The consultant said she’d never seen that before. But the reason we were able to do that.”… Is because first of all we’re all about robust consensus building, we met with neighborhood leaders again and again about zoning.”
Now, in the City of Hartford, all housing is ‘as of right,’ which means it doesn’t go through the public hearing process, which can be lengthy and expensive for applicants.
She said Catherine Einstein studied many P&Z decision making meetings with regard to zoning in Massachusetts, and found a lot about the nature of decision makers and as well as the people who attended the meetings.
“She took their zip codes and was able to extrapolate on the basis of race, age, and gender and found that largely the decision makers and commentators were white men in their 50s or older,” Bronin said.
Bronin said after changing to a form based code, Hartford received a Best Zoning Code award from the Form Based Codes Institute and Smart Growth America.
“The main benefit of a form based code is that it has set out the rules in advance. It has a lot of community engagement in the development of the code, but after you’ve done it, somebody can look at the code and say, ‘This is what’s required. I’m going to do that.’ There might be a little negotiating with staff, but it can be approved by staff. So, for those places that see housing challenges, housing supply that may be desperately needed, form based codes are really important.”
The codes would be a free tool for towns to use. The DeSegregate CT website notes that often towns don’t have the funds or expertise to update their codes, and model codes give them a place to start at no cost.
The morning after the Fiorello-Hwang forum, Greenwich Town Planner Katie DeLuca reflected on the proposal during a debrief on WGCH.
DeLuca said the new proposal replaces an original proposal she described as “quite extreme.”
“It really took away almost all local control,” she said. “That was obviously met with just extreme opposition.”
“This (version of the legislation) is still troubling to a lot of people,” she said. “It’s questionable as to whether something like that would work. And, number two, I think it does take away from local control. The biggest issue we’ve had with this group is their research.”
DeLuca said DeSegregate CT had misrepresented the social and economic makeup of the town.
“It’s just easy to say Greenwich is nothing but rich people,” she said. “It’s a nice thing to say, but actually it’s not quite accurate.”
DeLuca said what Fairfield County has done is quite innovate and successful in terms of providing different housing options.
“We would like to continue our efforts,” DeLuca added. “More importantly I think we’d like to work with them. There seems to be quite a feeling of unwillingness on their part to have conversations and do this together. That’s added to this level of animosity where there’s the feeling we’re being told what to do.”
“Someone described it best by saying, ‘We’re going to eat our vegetables anyway.'”
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This article has been updated to clarify that *accessory apartments have been allowed in Greenwich since the 1980s, though **not in the R6 zone, which is already zoned two-family as of right. Still there are only about 100 of these units in town.
At an affordable housing forum hosted by State Rep Kimberly Fiorello (R-149) and State Senator Tony Hwang (R-28) on Jan 19, hosts and panelists said new statewide zoning legislation would cede local zoning control to the State, and possibly might have adverse impacts to towns.
The legislation could be introduced as early as Monday.
The elephant in the room was DeSegregate CT, a coalition founded by Sara Bronin that is crafting state legislation with the goal of increasing affordable housing in towns across the state, and in turn decreasing segregation.
Ms Bronin, who has an impressive CV – she is an architect, land use attorney and law professor – is also a preservationist, and only recently stepped down from her role of chair of Preservation CT.
Also, she served on Hartford’s P&Z commission from 2013 until this past summer.
“We’re not touching large lot zoning – at least not at this point. We’re not tackling some of the bigger things. We’re actually going for the things that are consensus, but high impact at low cost to towns.”
Sara Bronin, DeSegregate CT
The point of view of DeSegregate CT was absent during the Jan 19 town hall forum, but Jan 21 Bronin was the featured speaker on a Zoom talk titled “Making Urbanism Antiracist,” organized by YIMBY Action, a group of inclusive housing advocates.
Bronin said her group came to life in June, which was soon after George Floyd’s death prompted the #BlackLivesMatter movement and increased awareness across the country of systemic racism.
DeSegregate CT now has 55 organizational members.
“The truth is that Connecticut is an extremely segregated state. Not everybody believes that in Connecticut. So when some communities, some people hear desegregate, they think oh, gosh, it means, you know, crazy radicals are going to try to overrun my neighborhood with, you know, ‘those people.’”
Sara Bronin, DeSegregate CT
“What we’re proposing this year is really a package of reforms that won’t by themselves magically desegregate Connecticut,” Bronin said. Rather, she talked about the importance of increasing opportunities.
She said the effort had input from landscape architects, zoning enforcement officers and planners across the state
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“The association of zoning enforcement officers have gone through our draft bills and said, ‘This will work, this will work.’ This is how a zoning officer would read this.”
“It’s been really heartening that our professionals have come together,” she added. “We’ve come to what we’re doing with taking everybody in and saying this is our problem.”
Bronin, whose husband Luke is the Mayor of Hartford, said she lived in the Capital’s downtown.
Hartford has a population of 125,000. Home ownership in the city is as low as 11% in some neighborhoods.
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“Living in a city like Hartford, which is a very low income city, which is a 15% white city nestled in a sea of wealthy suburban towns in one of the wealthiest regions in the country,” she said. “The differences here, depending on your zip code, dictate your health outcomes, educational opportunities, your economic opportunities and your chance for inter-generational wealth.”
Community Character
“Character is a terrible word,” Bronin said, when asked about the term when it is used by zoning commissions.
“The reason the three preservation organizations in the state – Preservation Connecticut, Connecticut Main Street center and Connecticut Preservation Action – signed on to our language is because they wanted it to be known that character is not going to be used in their name to inflict racist outcomes on communities.”
“We have a case in a suburb, it’s in the court system, I won’t name it,” Bronin said. “The lawsuit is partly based on the fact that two of the commissioners, in the last few months, held a meeting where they essentially mocked an immigrant and his lawyer who said this person fears for his life because of zoning violations he’s brought before you. The commissioners joked about deporting him. That was their joke. You can’t legislate for that.”
Housing on Main Streets
Bronin said a key part of her group’s proposal was “Main Street Zoning,” which would call for towns to fast track two- to four-family housing, making it “as of right.”
“As of right” means proposals could be approved by staff without public hearings.
There would be no minimum parking requirements, within a quarter mile of a “main street” in towns with over 7,500 people or with “concentrated development” as defined by the Census.
Bronin was whether “Main Street Zoning” might result in less affordable housing, and lead to both gentrification and more expensive housing. The cost of land in Greenwich is possibly the highest in the state.
In response, Bronin used the example of housing prices in NYC which have declined during the pandemic.
“It’s really true, the more supply you have, the lower the price will be,” she said.
Transit Oriented Development
According to the DeSegregate CT website, their proposal would bring housing with a minimum of 4 units to 50% of the lot area within 1/2 mile of fixed transit stations.
These would include commuter rail stations, bus rapid transit (not bus stops) and ferry terminals. These could be live-work units, mixed-use developments, or straight-up multifamily housing.
“Of course, some desirable density around train stations might not be affordable to everybody,” Bronin said. “(That’s why) one of the reasons we’ve put in our proposal a 10% affordability requirement for any building of 10 units. So if a town chooses to, and we hope they will, zone for a 10+ unit housing, every unit above 10 would have to be affordable.”
Bronin noted that Connecticut has no statewide rules on accessory dwelling units.
“We’re big believers in creating more housing, period. More housing opportunities, dividing the large houses we have into accessory dwelling reasons for environmental reasons, but also for opportunity reasons, and so on. We’re big believers in supply.”
Sara Bronin, DeSegregate CT
At Fiorello and Hwang’s town hall forum, panelist Francis Pickering director of WestCOG, said the proposed legislation was flawed in assuming that if developers could build multi family housing that it would increase affordable housing.
“Most Americans’ primary source of savings is their home equity,” he said. adding that state zoning legislation would “meddle” with that process.
“Given how critical home equity is in our society, we have to proceed delicately and not do things that could bankrupt one family and unduly enrich another family,” he added.
“Often developers find the greatest profit margin in the most expensive product,” Pickering added.
Also, during the Jan 19 town hall forum, Greenwich’s P&Z chair Margarita Alban said here in Greenwich, the commission had already made strides to remove barriers to creating accessory units.
*In fact, in Greenwich accessory apartments have been allowed since the mid 1980s, and recently a text amendment allowed them to be larger. Still there are only 100 of these units in town.
Last September the commission approved an amendment to encourage elderly and affordable accessory apartments.
Accessory apartments are not allowed in the R6 zone since two-family homes are already “as of right.”
The town also created an affordable housing task force and P&Z is collaboration with the housing authority.
The commission is also working to revise its 6-110 workforce housing regulation. It recently held a workshop attended by land use attorneys and developers.
Meanwhile developers continue to propose 8-30g developments. This is the state 8-30g affordable housing statute that waives local zoning regulations, including parking requirements, in order to achieve a percentage of affordable units in a proposed development. The statute applies to any Connecticut town that does not yet have at least 10% of its housing deemed affordable. And units owned/rented to employees of private schools, country clubs and Greenwich Hospital don’t count. They are not advertised on the open market.
The 8-30g applications will continue to be submitted in parallel to statewide zoning regulations if they are implemented.
Two 8-30g developments currently under consideration in Greenwich are 4 Orchard Street in Cos Cob and 28 Hollow Wood in Pemberwick.
The accusation of racism always stings.
While Bronin singled out New Canaan for their 4-acre zoning, their First Selectman said last week at the town hall forum that his town had instituted a fee to developers for a trust fund for affordable housing.
Darien and Westport both have inclusionary zoning, and both Ridgefield and New Canaan are in the process of drafting inclusionary zoning language.
Other panelists at Fiorello’s town hall argued there were better conversations to be had about racial justice and social equity.
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Jayme Stevenson, First Selectman of Darien, said it was time for a conversation on improving the economy, generating jobs and improving education.
Cars and Parking Requirements
Bronin talked about how existing land use laws were car-centric and parking requirements resulted in higher housing prices.
The DeSegregate CT platform proposes to reduce parking requirements, which Bronin said ties people to their cars.
“Cars are a scourge on modern society,” she said, adding that parking requirements make housing more expensive and in turn force people to be in cars in order to commute to work. “It becomes this self perpetuating cycle.”
She said 4-acre zoning, the type found in New Canaan and Greenwich, represented a lifestyle that has lost popularity and given way to a preference for walkable downtown neighborhoods.
“That’s great and good for watershed protection,” she said of 4-acre zones. However, she noted, “Until the pandemic, a lot of that housing was not desirable. People from New York City have scooped it up, (but) it’s not the way people want to live any more.”
“We’re not touching large lot zoning – at least not at this point,” she said.
She said while on Hartford’s P&Z commission, the last three years of which she served as chair, they “pulled off the Bandaid,” and eliminated parking requirements city wide.
“We hope it is a radical move that will turn the city around. We’re not advocating (that) in DeSegregate CT,” she said. “We’re just asking for communities to stop their parking mandates that are more than one space for a studio or one bedroom.”
“Whether it’s a wealthy town, it’s a rural town, an urban town. There’s not a good case that’s made for the arbitrary parking requirement,” she continued. “We have some of the wealthiest towns in Connecticut requiring 3 parking spaces for a studio apartment. What does that do to the cost of the apartment or the building as a whole? Of course it makes it higher, keeps people out and prevents that development from ever actually happening…”
** While GFP couldn’t find a town that requires 3 parking spaces for a studio apartment, here in Greenwich, in the R6 zone, where two-family is allowed “as of right,” adding an accessory apartment to a single family home makes it technically a two-family home and subjects it to a parking formula requiring 1.5 spaces per bedroom. For a house with 5 bedrooms, just to add an accessory unit, a total of 8 parking spaces would be required.
Accessory Dwelling Units – ADUs
In addition to reducing parking requirements, DeSegregate CT’s platform includes a push to add accessory dwelling units (ADUs). They note that most of Connecticut’s towns already allow accessory dwelling units, but their goal is to make it much easier.
Bronin said zoning is neither preordained nor organic.
“They (towns) think it’s handed down from God,” she said. “Changing it is not going to result in bad places, crime and school overcrowding.”
She said zoning in Connecticut towns came about during periods of time when communities thought they should exclude certain groups of people, and tightened over time.
“This isn’t about local control,” she said, adding it was more about homeowners being able to carve out an accessory dwelling unit in their single family home.
The coalition submitted that because of their size, accessory dwelling units were “naturally affordable.”
Further, they say accessory dwelling units are neatly tucked into existing single-family housing, and neither alter the streetscape nor add to sprawl.
Another pillar of DeSegregate CT’s platform is to include a model codes, or “form based codes” developed at the state level.
Bronin said when she served on the P&Z commission, Hartford switched to a form based code.
“We threw out the old code entirely and adopted a new code in one night,” she said. “The consultant said she’d never seen that before. But the reason we were able to do that.”… Is because first of all we’re all about robust consensus building, we met with neighborhood leaders again and again about zoning.”
Now, in the City of Hartford, all housing is ‘as of right,’ which means it doesn’t go through the public hearing process, which can be lengthy and expensive for applicants.
She said Catherine Einstein studied many P&Z decision making meetings with regard to zoning in Massachusetts, and found a lot about the nature of decision makers and as well as the people who attended the meetings.
“She took their zip codes and was able to extrapolate on the basis of race, age, and gender and found that largely the decision makers and commentators were white men in their 50s or older,” Bronin said.
Bronin said after changing to a form based code, Hartford received a Best Zoning Code award from the Form Based Codes Institute and Smart Growth America.
“The main benefit of a form based code is that it has set out the rules in advance. It has a lot of community engagement in the development of the code, but after you’ve done it, somebody can look at the code and say, ‘This is what’s required. I’m going to do that.’ There might be a little negotiating with staff, but it can be approved by staff. So, for those places that see housing challenges, housing supply that may be desperately needed, form based codes are really important.”
The codes would be a free tool for towns to use. The DeSegregate CT website notes that often towns don’t have the funds or expertise to update their codes, and model codes give them a place to start at no cost.
The morning after the Fiorello-Hwang forum, Greenwich Town Planner Katie DeLuca reflected on the proposal during a debrief on WGCH.
DeLuca said the new proposal replaces an original proposal she described as “quite extreme.”
“It really took away almost all local control,” she said. “That was obviously met with just extreme opposition.”
“This (version of the legislation) is still troubling to a lot of people,” she said. “It’s questionable as to whether something like that would work. And, number two, I think it does take away from local control. The biggest issue we’ve had with this group is their research.”
DeLuca said DeSegregate CT had misrepresented the social and economic makeup of the town.
“It’s just easy to say Greenwich is nothing but rich people,” she said. “It’s a nice thing to say, but actually it’s not quite accurate.”
DeLuca said what Fairfield County has done is quite innovate and successful in terms of providing different housing options.
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“We would like to continue our efforts,” DeLuca added. “More importantly I think we’d like to work with them. There seems to be quite a feeling of unwillingness on their part to have conversations and do this together. That’s added to this level of animosity where there’s the feeling we’re being told what to do.”
“Someone described it best by saying, ‘We’re going to eat our vegetables anyway.'”
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Controllers Talk Switching Gears From Public Accounting to Industry
If it wasn’t for Fred Butterweck, CPA, this article may not have come to be.
I was introduced to Butterweck, corporate controller of New York-based Clickspring Design, who worked for six years at PwC, via email as a potential source for the industry articles I’d be writing for Going Concern. During our email conversation, he wrote, “Not sure if you already covered the topic, but the transition from public accounting to industry has always interested me.” I read that and thought, “That’s a great idea. Why didn’t I think of that?”
I then pitched Butterweck’s idea to Caleb, who said, “That’s a great idea. Why didn’t I think of that?”
So, I spoke to Butterweck and 13 other corporate controllers about their transition from public accounting to industry, including the biggest adjustment they had to make or challenge they had to face. In addition, I asked them whether they used their time in public accounting as a steppingstone to a career in industry, why they left public accounting, and what they took away from public accounting that has helped them most as controller.
The 13 other controllers I spoke to, and the public accounting firms they worked for (in parenthesis), were:
Julie Brand, CPA, corporate controller, Pattern Energy Group, San Francisco (Deloitte)
Tony Combs, CPA, corporate controller, Urban Airship, Portland, Ore. (CBIZ MHM, PwC)
Lindsay Gorang, CPA, corporate controller, SightLife Surgical, Seattle (Deloitte)
J.C. Gum, CPA, vice president and corporate controller, Ag Processing Inc, Omaha, Neb. (KPMG)
Brian Harding, CPA, vice president, corporate controller, and principal accounting officer, FLIR Systems, Wilsonville, Ore. (KPMG)
Drew Hester, CPA, vice president, controllership and global business services, Beam Suntory, Chicago (PwC)
Lauren Johnson, CPA, senior controller, Portfolio Advisors LLC, Darien, Conn. (BDO USA)
Will Majic, CPA, CA, controller, corporate finance, Calian Group, Ottawa, Ontario (Deloitte)
Senad Mustafic, CPA, senior director – corporate controller, Smartsheet, Bellevue, Wash. (Deloitte)
Matt Nelson, CPA, vice president and corporate controller, Tableau Software, Seattle (PwC)
Mitra Rezvan, CPA, vice president and corporate controller, PagerDuty, San Francisco (KPMG)
Paul Starrantino, CPA, corporate controller, Sierra Nevada Corp., Sparks, Nev. (PwC)
Christopher Sullivan, CPA, corporate controller, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Rockville, Md. (EY)
What I learned is that, for the most part, controllers have fond memories of their time in public accounting, and some envisioned they’d spend their entire careers there. But for one reason or another—whether it was not wanting to be a partner, pursuing a new challenge, less travel, or just losing passion for it—the controllers decided to make the jump to industry.
Here’s a sampling of the answers they provided me. Some of their responses have been edited for length and clarity:
Going Concern: Did you envision using your time in public accounting as a steppingstone to a career in industry accounting? Or did you have other plans?
Fred Butterweck: At the time I received my offer [in November 1999, during his senior year of college], I figured I would be at PwC my entire career. About four or five years into my time at PwC, I started to assume the role of acting manager on some of my engagements. It was at that time I began to realize being an auditor wasn’t what I wanted to do for the rest of my career.
But I wouldn’t exactly use the term “steppingstone” because, to me, that infers a one-way relationship where you take what you want and move on. If done correctly, the public experience should be more symbiotic. In other words, the firm is going to work you hard, but in exchange, you gain valuable experience and come out stronger and tougher for your efforts.
Tony Combs: When I started my career at CBIZ MHM, I seriously considered a long-term career in public accounting. At a mid-tier firm, you get to work on a wide variety of clients, and it was fun seeing and learning a lot of different things. I thought going into industry would be boring at the time.
A friend of mine helped recruit me over to PwC, and I was curious if the Big 4 was any different from a mid-tier firm. At PwC, I had the opportunity to work on a Fortune 500 company [client], which I felt gave me a real 360-degree public accounting career. I had a young family at the time and eventually decided that I wanted to move out of public and into industry. My experience at PwC gave me a nice background to exit into another Fortune 500 company to start my career in industry.
Will Majic: When I began my career, it was a requirement to obtain your professional designation [CPA, CA], which required three years of public accounting working experience. For the first few years, all I had exposure to was my colleagues receiving their professional designation and immediately looking at employment outside the firm. That’s what I thought I wanted during that time as well, because it’s what I was exposed to.
But the more I worked at Deloitte, the more I enjoyed my experience and the more the idea of staying in public accounting appealed to me. I was lucky to have interesting clients and good relationships with the partners I worked for. It wasn’t until I heard of the right opportunity that I seriously considered leaving.
Matt Nelson: My father has been a business owner for 40 years. Growing up, he turned me onto the idea of working for myself one day. So, I always knew I wanted to find a role where I could help contribute to running a company. That was motivation for me while I was working at PwC, and I took cues from the partners in our office. They helped shape me as a professional and prepared me for the role I have taken on at Tableau.
Mitra Rezvan: Earlier in my career at KPMG, I planned to eventually become a partner at the firm. But as I worked with different audit clients, I became more interested in being on the corporate side, running the business and implementing processes, systems, and controls. Above all, I wanted to learn how to set up and run a business, and how larger organizations worked. As an auditor, I felt that I could provide valuable feedback, but I never had the chance to implement that feedback and see the ultimate results.
GC: When did you know it was time to leave public accounting and take a new path for your accounting career?
Julie Brand: What prompted me to leave public accounting was a great career opportunity on a client that I had provided services to. I was also interested in a reduced travel schedule that public accounting could not otherwise ensure.
Brian Harding: While at KPMG, I’d always assumed I’d pursue a partner opportunity. When I returned to KPMG in Portland, Ore. in 2011 after spending over a year at the firm’s European headquarters in London, the recommended path to partner would involve a rotation through the national office. I was asked to consider that path and come back with a “yes” or “no” on our willingness to move to New York in the next year. After much deliberation and stressful discussions, my wife and I decided we’d be open to the New York rotation. But a little while after communicating that willingness, the landscape had shifted and I learned that the partner promotion opportunity was no longer dependent on the transfer through the national office. After wrestling with this decision and kind of putting life on hold for the next move, it was somewhat disappointing to have the rotation off the table. It also introduced another layer of uncertainty in the timing for the partner opportunity.
Shortly thereafter, I was offered the opportunity to join FLIR. The position checked many boxes for me as an opportunity for professional development with a market-leading, innovative, and growing technology company.
Drew Hester: I was missing out on the experience of building something really lasting. Teams assemble, disassemble, and reassemble very quickly in public accounting, and the audit product itself is so intangible. It can be difficult to sustain a sense of having accomplished something that is more than fleeting. It’s also been really enjoyable to have great spirits brands to talk about at parties when people ask me about my job rather than watching smiles slowly fade and eyes glaze over as I explain that I audit multinationals.
Paul Starrantino: I left public accounting in 2010 during the downturn in the economy after working at PwC for 14 years, the last four as a senior manager. I no longer had the same passion [for] the profession that I had earlier in my career and felt it was time to seek opportunities in industry that would further broaden my professional experience.
Christopher Sullivan: During my time at EY, I felt challenged with new career experiences; however, I felt the experiences began to plateau once I was promoted to senior manager. Therefore, I felt it was time to evaluate what my long-term professional goals were. It came down to whether I wanted to commit to attempting the partner path or jump over to the world of industry accounting. Ultimately, I made the decision to move to industry because becoming a CFO one day seemed more exciting to me than the thought of becoming partner.
GC: What was your transition like from public accounting to industry? What was the biggest adjustment you had to make or challenge you had to overcome?
Julie Brand: The most impactful part of the transition was not working under a level of materiality. Public accountants perform procedures in conjunction with evaluated risk profiles and a defined client materiality scope, which is not the case in industry accounting. Industry accountants must perform their procedures at lower levels of materiality, if defined at all.
My biggest challenge was to effectively integrate the strategy of the business within the constraints of accounting. In other words, the “big picture concept”—there is more to the business decisions of the company that reside outside of accounting, such as operations, legal support, and IT.
Lindsay Gorang: I had two main concerns with leaving Deloitte and was pleasantly surprised in both cases. First, I thought I would miss the variety of working with so many different team members. I moved on from Deloitte to a small company with only 40 employees and feared I was significantly slimming my work network. What I failed to consider was how many outside parties I would regularly collaborate with: joint venture partners, lenders, key suppliers, attorneys, consultants, and affiliate companies.
Second, I thought I would miss working with the caliber of talent I worked with at Deloitte, but I was delighted to discover that my new colleagues were equally bright and motivated, and from a far broader array of fields. I love teaming with cross-functional leaders; they help me learn about so many areas beyond accounting-specific matters.
J.C. Gum: In public accounting, if I came across an accounting issue with which I had no previous experience, I could walk down the hall and usually find a couple of others who had. They could provide quick references, helpful leads, and generally get me started on researching the issue. In industry accounting, I found myself being the resource of last resort. I really missed having that interaction with others, bantering concepts and pitfalls on the most complex accounting issues.
Brian Harding: One of the biggest challenges for me was stepping into a new position where I was expected to be a leader in the organization, but I initially had no direct staff members to supervise. Coming from KPMG, where we had droves of managers, seniors, staff, and interns to support each engagement, there was a challenging transition into a new reality that, while I’d regularly report and present to the board and executive leadership, I’d also be the one to roll up my sleeves and do much of the heavy lifting to complete a project.
Lauren Johnson: The most difficult challenge for me, in the beginning, was dealing with the pace of activity that exists in private industry. There is this sort of urban legend that those in public accounting talk about which is that private sector is slower-paced than public. I can say that it’s absolutely not true; private is not slower-paced than public, and that’s not a bad thing.
Senad Mustafic: I like diversity—not only in terms of race, ethnicity, or gender, but also in terms of educational backgrounds, ways of thinking, and approaching problem-solving. In industry, it’s been refreshing to work with people from different professional disciplines. When it comes to diversity, the public accounting environment is monotonous—people have the same educational background, a lot of them went to the exact same college, and their career goals are similar.
The real challenge on the industry side, in my opinion, is you fully own the numbers. You see exactly where they come from, how they’re generated, and you’re fully responsible for their accuracy and completeness. I don’t think I appreciated the full science behind that process while I was in public accounting.
Matt Nelson: The biggest adjustment has been a greater appreciation for the operational side of the business, but it’s also been the most rewarding. In public accounting, there are rules to follow for almost everything. If there’s a question, there’s probably a guide where you can look up the answer. In industry, you have to figure it out. You make hard decisions every day.
I’ve also learned how to be a better communicator. In public accounting, you generally work closely with other finance and accounting professionals who understand what you do. In industry, many of the people you interact with each day think all accountants are tax professionals, and April 15 is the busiest day of the year.
Mitra Rezvan: Perhaps the hardest part of the transition was learning the hands-on operational accounting. It’s one thing to audit and provide technical guidance, but it’s another thing to build a process, know what reports you need, and work with technical teams to build systems for running the business efficiently.
Paul Starrantino: It’s a different experience to sit on the other side of the desk and close the period, prepare financial statements, perform acquisition due diligence, forecast, or plan the year. Accounting or controllership touches all aspects of an organization. As a result, some of the challenges stem from other departments approaching matters from a different lens and the need to balance an approach within a GAAP environment without sounding like an accountant but rather a partner in a mutually beneficial situation. However, I believe the biggest challenge is change management—large organization change—and the ability to partner, persuade, and obtain buy-in with others.
Christopher Sullivan: The transition was a very positive experience. It was fun and challenging to figure out how the sausage gets made, beginning with booking transactions in the general ledger all the way through to the end result of financial reporting and improving that process. The technical accounting foundation that I gained while at EY has made me comfortable with SEC reporting and the technical accounting knowledge and research skills needed in my role as controller.
GC: What’s one thing you’ve taken from your experience working in public accounting that has helped you the most in your job as a controller?
Fred Butterweck: As an auditor, you have to be able to quickly sort through a lot of information and key in on what’s important in short order. I feel this has helped me become a quick learner and hone my ability to identify key business issues and risks and stay focused on what’s important.
Tony Combs: The work ethic you get in public accounting. I had a lot of confidence in my capabilities coming out of public; I felt I could take on any type of project.
Lindsay Gorang: Managing teams effectively, by setting a high bar and providing frequent feedback to help my team achieve lofty goals.
J.C. Gum: KPMG taught me to be an owner. From my first audit when I was assigned cutoff at my client, ownership was critical to my success in public accounting. I quickly learned no one else is assigned to my areas, and the more I owned it, the more responsibility I was given. Similarly, industry accounting requires you to fully own all aspects of your job.
Drew Hester: The sheer variety of companies, clients, partners, staff, technical accounting issues, tough deadlines, and challenges I encountered. While navigating all of that, there is an inherent breadth of experience, required adaptability, and development of a sense that you can find a successful outcome in any situation that quietly accumulates. It makes for a very solid foundation when dealing with the more focused challenges that working for a single enterprise presents.
Lauren Johnson: Public accounting teaches you the “why” behind the process and the numbers, while private industry teaches you the “how.” Understanding the why has helped me tremendously when answering technical questions, problem-solving, and implementing process improvement.
Will Majic: There are tight deadlines and numerous demands at accounting firms that cause you to make good use of your time and work a few extra hours here and there at night or on weekends. That has taught me to be effective with my time during the day and has also given me an appreciation for putting in extra hours when required.
Senad Mustafic: I learned a lot about people management at Deloitte. Working on different audit engagements, one gets exposed to different management styles. I remember one year, as an audit senior, I reported simultaneously to six audit managers. Seeing their different styles helped me understand the style I wanted to have for myself and the style I wanted to avoid.
Stay tuned for more from these controllers in a future article where they offer advice to CPAs about making the jump from public accounting to industry.
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