2023: A Year in Review

2023

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OUR MISSION & HISTORY

In 1969, the late Bruce McCarty, FAIA, then-President of the local AIA, alongside several local architects, returned from a trip to the community design center in Philadelphia and gathered roughly forty local professionals to discuss the need for such a center in this region. On April 15th, 1970, the East Tennessee Community Design Center (ETCDC) was incorporated.

The objective of ETCDC has been to make East Tennessee a better place by bringing professional design and planning assistance to communities and organizations lacking resources to acquire those services. Our mission is to Envision, Inspire, and Improve East Tennessee communities through design, collaboration, and leadership. The ETCDC also serves as a catalyst to initiate projects within our service area and serves as an advocate for quality design in the public realm. The ETCDC offers these services through the pro-bono contributions of area architects, interior designers, landscape architects, planners, engineers, construction specialists and other professionals.

Since its founding, the ETCDC has completed over 1,300 projects in the 16 county region it serves; this is thanks to our professional volunteers who have donated over 101,000 hours of their time!

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WHO WE SERVE We serve a 16 county region within East Tennessee.

The star is Knoxville. The counties we serve, seen in blue, include:

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Anderson Blount Campbell Claiborne

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Cocke Grainger Hamblen Jefferson

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Knox Loudon Monroe Morgan

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Roane Scott Sevier Union

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Welcome

2023 marked the 53rd year of the East Tennessee Design Center, and it showed yet again why this organization is such a crucial asset to East Tennessee. We worked on nearly 30 projects for local nonprofits and communities with the aid of over 20 professional volunteers. Those volunteers donated over 1,000 hours of their time, and our dedicated Staff worked over 6,500 hours on both projects and community outreach. The following pages highlight those projects and that outreach. Other information relating to the ETCDC, such as our 2023 project volunteers and Board of Directors, is included. Projects shown in this book were worked on during the calendar year; some were completed and others are still in the design process as we transition into 2024. We hope you enjoy what follows, and we look forward to our 54th year of operation in 2024. Here’s to another year of Envisioning, Inspiring, and Improving East Tennessee through Design!

-The ETCDC Staff

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Table of Contents

Project Selection & 2023 Volunteers

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2023 Projects

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Other Involvements

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Board, Staff, & Award Winners

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Project Selection Criteria

The ETCDC and its volunteers work on numerous projects throughout the year.

Design Center projects and clients must meet 4 qualifications: Be from a nonprofit or community organization Be for the benefit of the entire community and not solely for the benefit of their members Be unable to acquire financial or other resources from the private sector Be able to demonstrate the commitment and ability to pursue the project through to completion

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2023 Adam Buchanan, AIA, McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects || Family Promise, Knox County

Curtis Catron, LA || Sutherland Heights Pocket Park, Knox County

Project Volunteers

Markus Chady, AIA, Studio Four Design, Inc. || Sertoma Center Renovations, Knox County Bobby Haines, PE, SE, Haines Structural Group, Inc. || Burlington Lighthouse, Knox County Chris Hall, Arcadis || Gary Underwood Park Master Plan, Knox County Suz Holbrook || Faith N Friends Horse Rescue Programming Plan, Knox County Nathan Honeycutt, AIA, McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects || Sunsphere Welcome Center, Knox County Grace Hooper, Assoc. AIA, McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects || Family Promise, Knox County Don Horton, AIA, Horton Built Environments Consulting, Inc. || SEEED Mixed-Use Offices, Knox County Emanuel Huber-Feely, AIA, McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects || Sunsphere Welcome Center, Knox County Doug Kennedy, AIA, Johnson & Galyon Construction || Burlington Lighthouse, Knox County Caroline Lezon, PLA, Sanders Pace Architecture || SHORA Youth & Garden Center, Knox County Randy Merritt, The Christman Company || Sunsphere Welcome Center, Knox County // Heritage Park, Union County Aaron Miller, AIA, McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects || Fountain City Ballfields Master Plan, Knox County Ric Mixon, AIA, WystWynd Designs || Grove Theater Renovations, Anderson County Allison Montgomery, AIA, McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects || Fountain City Ballfields Master Plan, Knox County Thomas Noggle || Vestal UMC Post-Foster Care Housing, Knox County Brandon Pace, FAIA, Sanders Pace Architecture || SHORA Youth & Garden Center, Knox County Josh Shaffer, AIA, Sparkman & Associates Architects || Vestal UMC Post-Foster Care Housing, Knox County Claire Shue, AIA, Sanders Pace Architecture || SHORA Youth & Garden Center, Knox County Gregor Smee, AIA, Smee + Busby Architects || Burlington Lighthouse, Knox County Susanne Tarovella, AIA, Sparkman & Associates Architects || Vestal UMC Post-Foster Care Housing, Knox County Oren Yarbrough, AIA, Design Innovation Architects || Heritage Park, Union County

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Grove Theater

Exterior renovation plans for a historic Oak Ridge theater County: Anderson || Volunteer: Ric Mixon, AIA 8

Gary Underwood Park

Design for park improvements based on community input survey results County: Knox || Volunteer: Chris Hall 9

Burlington Lighthouse

Design for a new conference and performing arts center in the Burlington neighborhood County: Knox || Volunteers: Gregor Smee, AIA / Doug Kennedy, AIA / Bobby Haines, PE, SE 10

William Powell Park

Creation of a community survey for new park amenities and public art County: Knox || Staff Work 11

Fountain City Ballfields Master Plan

Master Plan for improvements to the existing ballfields County: Knox || Volunteers: Allison Montgomery, AIA / Aaron Miller, AIA 12

Rendering by MHM Architects post-ETCDC involvement

Sunsphere Welcome Center

Design for Visit Knoxville’s new welcome center for the Sunsphere County: Knox || Volunteers: Emanuel Huber-Feely, AIA / Randy Merritt / Nathan Honeycutt 13

Vestal UMC Foster Care Housing

Conversion of former church education building into post-foster care young adult housing County: Knox || Volunteers: Josh Shaffer, AIA / Susanne Tarovella, AIA / Thomas Noggle 14

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EXTENDING REACH THROUGH “ THE FRONT PORCH”

PRESERVING INDIVIDUALIT Y

Family Promise of Knoxville

DISTRIBUTED SANCTUARIES

Office redesign and plan for on-site housing for families experiencing Family Promisehomelessness County: Knox || Volunteers: Adam Buchanan, AIA / Grace Hooper, Associate AIA 1300 N. Broadway Knoxville, TN 37917 Phone - 865-525-9945 Website - www.communitydc.org

Funding for this project is provided by Family Promise of Knoxville, Knox County, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Community Design Center Board of Directors, and Friends of the ETCDC.

Professional Advisors: Adam Buchanan, AIA Grace Hooper, Associate AIA

3545 Middlebrook Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37921

Date: May 26, 2023 ETCDC Project #2170 This project is in association with Family Promise of Knoxville

ETCDC Coordinator: Dustin Durham ETCDC Staff: J. Perry Childress ETCDC Executive Director: L. Duane Grieve, FAIA

Advisors' Firm:

EXTERIOR RENDERING 1

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THESE DRAWINGS ARE NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION.

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SEEED

Plan for a six story, mixed-use office building with a LEED Platinum certification County: Knox || Volunteer: Don Horton, AIA 16

Heritage Park Music Wall & Farmers Market

Plan for a farmers market expansion and monument wall honoring local country music artists County: Union || Volunteers: Oren Yarbrough, AIA / Randy Merritt 17

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Faith N Friends Horse Rescue

Programmatic master plan for potential new locations elsewhere in Knox County County: Knox || Volunteer: Suz Holbrook 18

Sertoma Center of Knoxville

Interior renovations for both floors in the existing building in east Knoxville County: Knox || Volunteer: Markus Chady, AIA 19

Knoxville Botanical Gardens & Arboretum Master Plan for upgrades to the KBGA site in east Knoxville County: Knox || 2023 Staff Work

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Cocke County Veterans Memorial Park Master Plan for a new park honoring veterans outside of Newport County: Cocke || 2023 Staff Work

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SHORA Youth & Garden Center

Site plan and building plans for new offices and greenspaces in east Knoxville.

County: Knox || Volunteers: Brandon Pace, FAIA / Caroline Lezon, PLA / Claire Shue, AIA 22

Solomon Gardens

Advisory role helping guide the development of new public gardens in east Knoxville County: Knox || Staff Work 23

Sutherland Heights Pocket Park

Design for a small park located on a vacant parcel between two existing homes County: Knox || Volunteer: Curtis Catron, LA 24

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Girl Scouts of Southern Appalachians’ Urban Camp Master Plan for an ‘urban camping experience’ in east Knox County.

County: Knox || 2023 Staff Work

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Other Involvements

The ETCDC and its volunteers also participate in various events throughout Knoxville, Knox County, and the region. Some of these are one-time events and some are recurring. We are also involved in numerous ongoing local committees in Knoxville. Some of these events and involvements include:

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The Community Collaborative Our Annual Celebration Open Streets AIA East Tennessee’s Architecture Week Various Symposiums Infill Housing Committee Downtown Design Review Board Bike Walk Knoxville Advisory Committee

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THE COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE The Community Collaborative is a focused effort between multiple local organizations on the challenges facing our communities. The goal of the Collaborative is to highlight an area’s history, bring awareness to its future potential, and then promote sustainable growth.

Each year a focus area or issue is established, community input is gathered, and multiple studies and efforts are performed. The Collaborative concludes each year in a public event and a publication that summarizes the research, designs, concepts, and efforts performed that year. This discourse in turn begins to shape public policy and private development strategies. The Collaborative is the vehicle for our community to envision the possibilities of our region and shape our collective aspirations for the future.

Community Collaborative study areas so far: 2018/2019 - Burlington neighborhood 2020 - Sutherland Avenue Corridor 2021/2022 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue Corridor 2023 - Northgate Complex (North Knoxville)

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Northgate Complex

The largely empty shopping complex in North Knoxville is the focus area for Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024.

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CELEBRATION AT IJAMS In August we held our annual Celebration, this time at Ijams Nature Center, which has been a project of the ETCDC multiple times since the 1970s. We honored former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe - who helped expand parks and greenways in the city during his tenure - with our Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award. We also honored ETCDC client Legacy Parks Foundation with the Annette Anderson Directors’ Award for their work on the French Broad Veterans Memorial Park.

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OPEN STREETS: CENTRAL STREET & EMORY PLACE

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ANNUAL MEMBERS’ MEETING

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Executive Director

L. Duane Grieve, FAIA

Board Officers

Kristin Lee Grove - President Carey Parker - 1st Vice President Nathaniel Shelso - 2nd Vice President Randy Merritt - Secretary Ross Goodman - Treasurer Scott Busby, AIA - Immediate

Directors

Past President

Kathryn G. Baldwin, AICP Patrick Brown, PLA, ASLA Megan Chafin, AIA Jeremiah Corbett, AIA, NCARB, LEED Courtney Cox, Esq. Julie Dalby, NCIDQ, RID Elizabeth Goodale Mary Wells Holbrook Nathan Hunter, PLA, LEED BD+C Shana Love Peter Ludman, AIA Dr. Dasha Lundy Alli Montgomery, AIA Sharon Moore Charley Sexton Amy Taylor Lizz Wetherall, NCIDQ, LEED GA

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CONTINUED Ex-Officio Directors Ken McMahon Kevin DuBose Jeff Welch Amy Brooks, AICP Scottie McDaniel

Emeritus Directors

Douglas H. McCarty, FAIA Dr. Joseph E. Johnson* Dr. Gideon Fryer* Bruce McCarty*, FAIA John A. Walker, Jr.* Esq. *in memoriam

STAFF

FOUNDERS & FIRST BOARD MEMBERS John Anderson, Jr. Gene Burr, AIA Charles ‘Pete’ Drew Dr. Gideon Fryer Will Griffin Donnell Hurley Bruce McCarty, FAIA William Moorefield, RA William Oliphant Jerry Risenhoover Bill Shell Lewis Sinclair Ravendoor Sood John Walker William Earl White Danny Whittle Woodrow Wilson

Perry Childress Cam Coppala Dustin Durham L. Duane Grieve, FAIA Jan Mosadegh

Director names indicate those serving partially or fully during 2023.

BOARD PRESIDENTS William Oliphant Gideon Fryer Gene Burr, AIA Robert Wilson Bob Netherland John Walker Hugh Neil L. Duane Grieve, AIA Dr. Gideon Fryer Gerry Eastman Bill Lauer Doris Scott Crawford Mike Parker Doug McCarty, AIA Mark Mitchum Betsy Quinn Beth Phillips Faris Eid, AIA Curtis Catron, ASLA Frank Sparkman, AIA Sharon McKee Chuck Morris Brian Ewers, AIA Ric Mixon, AIA

BOARD PRESIDENTS, CONTINUED Jason Woodle Mary Holbrook Jan Evridge Rick Blackburn Nathan Honeycutt, AIA Scott Busby, AIA Kristin Lee Grove

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Ed Dusek William Oliphant Annette Anderson Terry Shupp Tim Ledford Gideon Fryer David Watson John Merino Mary Linda Schwarzbart

Wayne Blasius L. Duane Grieve, FAIA

AWARD WINNERS BRUCE MCCARTY COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD 2013: Carol Evans / Paul James / Randy & Jenny Boyd 2014: David Dewhirst 2015: Ashley Capps 2016: Faris Eid, AIA 2017: Natalie Leach Haslam 2018: Pat & Joe Johnson 2019: Mayor Madeline Rogero 2021: Thomas N. McAdams, Esq. 2022: Mayor Randy Tyree 2023: Mayor Victor Ashe

ANNETTE ANDERSON DIRECTORS’ AWARD

2016: Tanner Preservation Alliance 2017: Good Shepherd Center 2018: Delaney Museum at Beck 2019: The Change Center 2021: CareCuts Knoxville 2022: Sunset Gap Camp 2023: French Broad Veterans Park

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Thank You to all of our volunteers and supporters who make our work possible!

With special thanks to:

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Phillip & Janet Lawson Clayton Foundation East Tennessee Foundation Truist Foundation

USB Matching Gifts Program TN Architecture Foundation Stowers Machinery Foundation Bank of America

*Note: many of the projects shown in this book were still in process at the end of 2023; we will include the finished results for these projects in our 2024 project book. As well, we wish to thank all our Staff and Board members for the work they did to further our mission in 2023.

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