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2 November 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates

A Day in the Life of An Advance Strategist

About a year ago, I gave you an update of what was going on in my work life. Looking back over the last year of Life@HOK, I thought it might be fun to revisit that post,and let you know what’s going on now! You’ll see from the list below that some things have stayed the same, but lots of cool new things have come up too!

Revisiting old news:

GSA Unit Cost Study: just about wrapped up!
U.S. Capitol Complex Master Plan (still going, and I still can’t tell you more or I’d have to shoot you)
Blogging on The Green Workplace
Blogging on Life@HOK

Sharing new news:

NeoCon East presentation

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That thing in the middle

Big things happened in Toronto yesterday. A local Architect presented his idea for what he would do to with our inter-city expressway, the Gardiner Expressway. The same expressway the city has been talking about tearing down/repairing/doing nothing with, for almost a quarter of a century. It’s a great time to do it also, with the city will be going on strike come Sunday night. But never the less, I thought I would show my friends to the south as not many people from Toronto actually look at my content.

The Gardiner Expressway, built between 1955-1966. Named after Robert G. Gardiner, (our Robert Moses) was the Chair of the now defunct Metro Council. It stretches about 20 kilometers running east west, and …