UNC Asheville Receives $100,000 Kresge Grant;
Funds to be Used for Craft Campus Green Building Planning
The University of North Carolina Asheville has been awarded a $100,000
grant from the Kresge Foundation
to aid with planning costs for green building design at UNC
Asheville's Craft Campus. The $100,000 grant is the maximum
planning grant that the Foundation awards through its Green Building
Initiative.
"We are grateful to the Kresge Foundation and its Green Building
Initiative," said Dan Millspaugh, UNC Asheville Craft Campus
director. "Kresge not only believes in the importance of exceptional
planning on an innovative project such as this, they afford us an
opportunity to research and capture the best technology, the best science,
and the best wisdom that has been accrued in building environmentally
sustainable facilities."
UNC Asheville's Craft Campus, to be located next to Buncombe County's
former landfill on the French Broad River, will be a fully
"green" facility, including its energy sources, building
materials and studio operations. Methane from the
capped landfill will provide the primary energy source for studios, kilns,
glass furnaces and for a separate visitors' center. The University is
leasing 153-acre site for a $1 a year from Buncombe County. This unique
project partners UNC Asheville's policy of high-performance, toxin-free
green buildings with Buncombe County's desire to return the land to
sustainable, productive public use.
The Kresge Foundation grant will allow the University to move through
the planning stage leading to the design of the facility. The Craft Campus
is expected to open in four to five years, Millspaugh said.
Media Contacts:
- Merianne Epstein, UNC Asheville Public Information Director,
828/251-6676,
- Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director,
828/251-6526
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