Junior competitor Gianna “Gia” Fiore wins first cash payout on the tour

While Kaylee McIntosh and Michel Monk share the headline and top two prizes at Stop #4 of the ladies’ 2023 Florida Tiger Tour this past weekend (Sat., Aug. 19), it was 14-year-old Gianna (Gia) Fiore who caught the attention of tour representatives and participating competitors.

“She was the star of the show,” noted Tour Director Mimi McAndrews, “(stealing it) as she knocked out player after player.”

“She has been playing with us for a few years now and (this weekend) finished ‘in the money’ for the first time,” McAndrews added. “We’re so proud of her and knew that it was just a matter of time.”

The modified, double-elimination event (bracket narrowed down to a single-elimination final eight, four from each side) drew 32 entrants to North Palm Beach Billiards in North Palm Beach, FL. Michel Monk won the WPBA qualifier prize for the right to compete in the WPBA’s Iron City Invitational II, scheduled for Sept. 27-Oct. 1 at Iron City Billiards in Birmingham, AL.

Kaylee McIntosh opened with a 7-3 win over Katie Cool before sending Monk to the loss side 7-2 in the second round and then, defeating Janis Sessions 7-4 to move among the event’s final eight. In the opening-round of single-elimination, McIntosh drew Shanelle Loraine, who advanced to join her from the loss side of the bracket. Stephanie Mitchell got by Sarah Archer 7-4, Deb Teichert and Kelly Carnes (both 7-3) to join the final eight and face “Gia” Fiore, coming over from the loss side. Fiore had lost her opening-round match to Carnes, went on to win four on the loss side, including her last loss-side victory over Janis Sessions 5-2 and advanced to her first ‘money round’ on the tour.

Nicolle Cuellar joined the final eight with victories over Alicia Borja 7-2, Mimi McAndrews 7-1 and Helene Caukin 7-2. Cuellar faced Miranda Orange, joining the final eight from the loss side, in the opening round of single-elimination. Roe Guarnero defeated Danielle Fee 7-1, Jessica Barnes 7-4 and Kelly Coyle 7-1 to be the last of the final eight from the winners’ side. She faced Monk in the opening round of single-elimination.

Michel Monk had followed her second-round loss to McIntosh with three loss-side wins, including a 5-2 win over Caukin that had earned Monk her spot among the event’s final eight. Monk then shut out Guarnero and advanced to the event semifinals against Cuellar, who’d defeated Orange, double-hill. Mitchell ended the teenager “Gia” Fiore’s day with a 7-4 win and in the semifinals, faced McIntosh, who’d eliminated Shanelle Loraine, double hill.

McIntosh and Mitchell got into a somewhat predictable, double-hill fight for advancement to the finals. McIntosh won it. Monk qualified to join her in the event finals that didn’t happen with a 7-4 victory over Cuellar. In spite of what must certainly have been an ‘itch’ for a rematch, Monk and McIntosh opted out of a final that would have scratched it, though likely not too much before dawn on Sunday morning. They agreed to split the top two cash prizes, but flipped a coin to determine the official winner. McIntosh won the toss.

Tour representatives thanked title sponsor Tony Kalamdaryan with Tiger Products for their continued support of the tour and players, along with Brutal Game Gear, Stitch It To Me, Boynton Billiards, AZ Billiards, Eastern Billiards and Andy Cloth for their support. Thanks were extended as well, to Jerry Sotelo & Stephanie Mitchell for running a smooth tournament. The next stop on the Tiger Florida Tour, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 14, will be the Annual “Cues for the Cure,” hosted by The Corner Pocket in Largo, FL.

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CP Foods’ veteran leader sets out to change the farmed shrimp paradigm – yet again – with RAS and Homegrown Shrimp USA

Robins McIntosh has big plans for a former citrus grove in Indiantown, Florida. And they don’t involve oranges.

The executive VP of Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) is developing the 40-acre site into a next-generation facility for shrimp aquaculture. His goal: Produce up to 1,000 tons of shrimp annually with zero waste.

Although construction of the Homegrown Shrimp USA aquaculture operation is still in progress, McIntosh is already thinking about future facilities.

“It’s a pilot farm and we’re going to be trying out a lot of new and different principles,” McIntosh told the Advocate. “If it works, there could be Homegrown farms outside of every major community. We could have Homegrown facilities in Europe and China.”

First, he has to prove the concept works.

Aquaculture 5.0

It’s not the first time CP Foods has spearheaded major innovations in aquaculture. The Bangkok-based company that specializes in shrimp aquaculture, including grow-out, feed and hatchery technologies, built the first zero water exchange farm in Belize and the first biosecure farm in Latin America.

“I changed the world in Belize in 1996 – shocked the world,” McIntosh recalled. “When we have something to come out with [at Homegrown Shrimp USA], the world is going to sit up and take notice and I hope that this changes the world again.”

McIntosh refers to his planned advances in Florida as “Aquaculture 5.0” and hopes the innovations will lead to robust growth in land-based aquaculture operations that produce shrimp in close proximity to leading world markets.

The Florida farm is set to include 18 production tanks housed in a temperature-controlled metal building. The above-ground tanks will be sealed to prevent leakage and filled with artificial seawater that recirculates throughout the system.

Unlike facilities that discharge wastewater into a settling pond, the water will be disposed of through anaerobic digestion or pumped through a waste extruder. Extruded waste will be blended with a polymer and turned into pellets that can be used for surfaces ranging from road fillers to running tracks.

“It’s a very compact water-treatment footprint,” McIntosh said. “We’re not using expensive bead filters and biofilters and other high-tech stuff; it’s very simplistic, going back to environmental engineering concepts and doing it in a way that’s cost-effective.”

McIntosh also took an unconventional approach to hiring. Aside from the general manager working onsite in Florida (and an experienced team providing guidance from Thailand), most of the staff have no aquaculture experience.

“We are building this from the ground up and it’s a new concept,” McIntosh said. “In my experience, when I do new concepts like this and I use experienced aquaculturists, it’s harder to get done because there are too many bad habits to break, too many people saying, ‘you can’t do this…’ Well, we’re going to see if we can do this or not.”

Betting on success

There were similar concerns about locating the facility away from the coastline but McIntosh said the inland location a strategic move. In addition to less expensive land and less restrictive permitting, McIntosh hopes the pilot farm will demonstrate that shrimp can be produced away from salt marshes, mangroves and other valuable coastal lands and prove that the Florida farm can be replicated nationwide.

Homegrown USA will also operate as a total commercial hatchery providing postlarvae to both U.S. and European markets. In Thailand, CP foods operates inland, biosecure broodstock farms that achieve 95 percent survival. McIntosh plans to introduce new, higher performance genetics in Florida to achieve similar results.

Once the first phase comes online, McIntosh estimates the $2.5 million facility will produce 160 tons of shrimp per year. It’ll take an estimated 65 days to produce shrimp weighing up to 25 grams.

“You don’t find farms like this and, again, the scale of this will be bigger than some of the smaller farms in the U.S. now … but even at the pilot level, it’s a good scale and, if it works, the scale will get much bigger,” he said. “This hopefully represents a new level of sustainable aquaculture that has previously been thought to be impossible or economical.”

Dealing with disruptions

COVID-19 has disrupted the global supply chain, upending trade routes and sales channels in a way that nothing previously has. The pandemic has been slowing the Homegrown project in a number of ways: The hatchery is operating but, instead of bringing the rest of the facility online in June, as planned, it appears that the farm won’t be fully operational until this fall – or later, depending on how the pandemic plays out. Despite the challenges, McIntosh believes there has never been a better time to invest in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) shrimp farm in Florida.

“As a large exporter and foreign producer, under the current administration and new initiatives like ‘Made in the USA,’ there are extra pressures and worries that maybe they’re going to do something against the ability to export food from Southeast Asia and South America,” he explains. “By providing some shrimp farm production in the United States, we’re actually joining hands to produce in the United States as well as to export.”

A successful Homegrown Shrimp USA pilot would reassure commercial buyers that quality local shrimp is available on a regular schedule.

“It can’t be seasonal; we have to have continuous production, not batch harvesting,” McIntosh stressed. “I’m going to have to prove to the market that every week – or twice a week or three times a week – I can deliver fresh shrimp. For that to happen, it has to be anytime, anywhere, all the time production and that’s what we’re going to do here.”

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Pull off Interstate 75 at exit 368, steer east on a shaded, tree-lined country road and feel the decades fall away.

Glide past vast expanses of verdant, rolling pastures that make you swear you’re in the Carolinas or Tennessee -- certainly not flat-and-sandy Florida. The hustle of the highway fades in the rear-view mirror as Marion County Road 318 brings you to a single traffic light.

Swing north onto U.S. 441, which lives up to its designation as the Old Florida Heritage Highway.

Five or so miles away, you’ll find McIntosh -- a small Florida town where time seems to have stopped at around 1930, and no one is complaining.

It’s also a draw for antique-hunters, people looking for that special accent piece for their home, or just anyone interested in eclectic items.

There are at least seven antique shops in tiny McIntosh, which has sat alongside Orange Lake since the early 1800s. The numerous Victorian homes along the quiet lined streets are historic relics themselves.

For the antique dealers, having so many outlets in such a small area is not a concern. "Everyone pretty much stays in their lane," said Dina Michael, owner of Winters Past on U.S. 441, which specializes in clothing and jewelry. Others might focus on furniture or toys, books and music, or even rustic farm implements.

"We sell what we love," she said, adding that the shopkeepers refer customers to each other.

Sometimes, they’re the customers themselves. "I got my coffee table from a shop in town," Michael said, describing an old wooden railroad cart she repurposed for her home.

Michael said she enjoys getting to know the customers and finding out about their tastes. "Sometimes, they don’t know what they want," she said.

In keeping with the town’s turn-of-the-century -- the 19th century, that is -- easy-going vibe, the shops have varying hours of operation. Best not to get there before 10 a.m. most days.

After treasure-hunting in the town, get back on U.S. 441 and continue the journey along the scenic old Florida heritage highway. Head north past fields of grazing cattle and old motels dating back before the interstate arrived and this was a major artery for Florida tourists.

Soon, you’ll get to Micanopy. Or, rather, you’ll get close.

Look for the flashing light -- that’s the intersection of County Road 234 -- and turn west toward the historic downtown.

Away from the main road, a short tunnel of moss-draped oaks opens onto one of Florida’s best-preserved historic treats.

"Micanopy has an amazing ambience of Florida music, cafes, a lovely museum -- free -- and just a wonderful variety of antiques," said Monica Beth Fowler, owner of Delectable Collectables on Cholokka Boulevard, and unabashed town booster.

Hers is one of a dozen antique shops lining the peaceful street that teem with visitors most weekends. Fowler has been selling antiques -- her specialty is cameos, and she has more than 1,500 of them -- for 35 years in Micanopy.

Around her, shops invite visitors to browse and learn about the wares and the town itself. Knowledgeable owners love to share stories about how they acquired the gems on their tables and shelves. They call it the thrill of the hunt.

"There’s some overlap, but mostly it means more choices," Fowler said of the shops. There are also gift shops that provide a different flavor, she said.

In many people’s minds, Micanopy is synonymous with "Doc Hollywood,” the 1991 movie starring Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner and Woody Harrelson that was filmed in the town. Fowler said visitors still ask about the movie, even all these years later.

Across the street sits the venerable Herlong Mansion, where countless brides and grooms have posed for wedding day photos over the decades. The entire downtown could easily pass for a Hollywood set -- except that it is very real, and very much still alive.

As is often said around here, a day trip to Micanopy and McIntosh is not complete without a visit to The Yearling Restaurant in nearby Cross Creek. So, head south on 441 a short distance and turn east onto County Road 346. Once across Orange Lake, turn south on County Road 325 and a few minutes later you will arrive in Cross Creek.

This rustic town near the Old Florida Heritage Highway is a homage to its most famous former resident, naturalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

The Yearling Restaurant, named after the Rawling’s most famous work, is a one-of-its kind eatery. The ramshackle restaurant is rough-and-tumble looking, as befits a former fish camp.

"Some people pull up to the restaurant and don’t want to go in there," said owner Robert Blauer. "It’s not fancy, and they don’t know what to expect."

Venture inside and expect to have your senses caressed. Your eyes will take in the charm of a building that has been added onto many times over the years until it resembles a rabbit warren; your nose will pick up the scent of a real cracker menu that features fresh catfish, venison, grouper, quail and duck, and your mouth will commence watering.

And your ears will thrill to the sounds of legendary local bluesman Willie Green. No, that’s not a CD playing; Willie himself is perched on his stool, plucking his guitar and wailing on a harmonica.

The recipes have been around for 40 years or more and the meals show it. Blauer said the most popular are their shrimp dishes and catfish, but occasionally they’ll mix it up and add, say, rabbit to the menu. This is no chain restaurant.

The Yearling is open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 8 on Thursday and Sunday; till 9 on Friday and Saturday. Willie Green is there most days.

By now, after a day of strolling through historic Florida towns and dining on wild game, you’re about ready to call on Miss Rawlings. Her place is just down the road.

Head south on CR 325 and you’ll arrive at the author’s homestead, now a state park bearing her name. It was here, on a rough wooden table in a screened-in porch, that she wrote "The Yearling” on an old typewriter in 1938.

The house, gardens, woods and out buildings seem frozen in time. Stroll around the well-kept property and sense what Rawlings experienced as she became one with the natural beauty -- and rugged way of life -- that she called home.

Before you take the trek, re-read the book or watch the 1946 movie to get a taste of Rawlings’ writing style and descriptive passages; it will make the experience that much more vivid, like you are revisiting a previous life.

The park is open every day and visitors may tour the house with a ranger in period costume from October through July on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10 and 11 a.m. and at 1, 2, 3, and 4 p.m. Often, volunteers are in the kitchen making bread and food from the era, making the farm come alive once again.

Picnic facilities, a boat ramp and a playground are located in the adjacent county park on the shore of Orange Lake.

As the sun begins to dip over the lake, it’s time to return to the blacktop, back to the busy life you left behind for this day trip back to a quieter era.

Make plans to return; this peaceful way of life may be old-fashioned, but it has never gone out of style.

Time has been kind to this small town

STORY BY BRENDA FLYNN PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRENDA FLYNN, BRUCE ACKERMAN AND CONTRIBUTORS

McIntosh, a small Marion County community of about 400 people, located mid-way between Ocala and Gainesville, isn’t a bustling city. Most days there are lazy, except for one day each October, when the town hosts the annual 1890s Festival, drawing vendors and upwards of 40,000 guests from all over the country.

The arts and crafts event provides funding for the Friends of McIntosh, a nonprofit historic preservation society, to maintain old buildings, improve public parks, sponsor community activities and give scholarships to local students.

McIntosh residents still hold monthly town meetings and you can be guaranteed a warm smile as you drive down Avenue G to the heart of town, ending at the restored train depot, which becomes a town museum during the annual festival, which this year will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 21.

Bygone days

In 1932, McIntosh had 725 households and was considered a good-sized town. The community had mercantile and grocery stores, a drug store, a wood mill, concrete and ice plants, banks, schools, a Masonic Lodge, huge fruit and vegetable shipping warehouses and its own fire department.

A railroad ran through the town, and McIntosh was a popular stop for Northern tourists who came to relax in the mild climate and fish in Orange Lake (once known as Mizzell’s Lake).

You could stay at the McIntosh Hotel, where owners Betty McKoon and Helen Schorfhaar, natives of Scotland, would serve up tea and scones each day at 4 p.m.

Yes, the little town that straddles Highway 441 used to be a beehive of activity, which wasn’t bad for a rural farm community once planted in cotton, cucumbers and corn.

Familiar names

The family names of Gist, Walkup, Karow, Dedman. Strange, Dickson and Christian still are echoed in the residents of modern-day McIntosh, defiantly proud of their resistance to change and their steadfast hold on ancient residences that have been passed from one family to another.

Howard Walkup was born in the town in 1928. He says he left for several years, but returned in 1984.

“There are more homes here now than there used to be, but not much change in the population,” he says. “It used to be big families, now it’s couples and singles.”

Many of the women of McIntosh are relatives by marriage or birth to original families and display their maiden names as middle ones, connecting them to the town, such as longtime resident Chris Dedman Rath.

Her middle name, Christian, is after her great-uncle, J.K. Christian, previous owner of the Christian Mercantile Store in McIntosh.

Resident historian

Chris was born, raised and still lives in a house purchased by her mother and father in 1914. Her parents, Mary Taylor of Nicholasville, Kentucky, and W.R. Dedman of Versailles, Kentucky, lived 30 miles from each other growing up, but never met until he took a job in McIntosh managing a 2,000-acre cattle and horse farm called Dungarven. She came to McIntosh to teach school in a one-room schoolhouse.

“They met here at a party in 1907 and fell in love. They just never left,” she says.

Chris fell in love with and married Ross Rath, the McIntosh postmaster and the man responsible for hanging mailbags on trains for midnight runs.

“Things were a lot different then,” she says.

Chris, the town’s resident historian, has amassed an impressive collection of memorabilia of the town and its residents.

“We used to have a wonderful festival here,” she says. “The Lotus Blossom Festival, started by the Gist family in the late 1950s. Every year, there was a new Queen of the Lotus Blossoms, with a full complement of Princes, Fairies, Gnomes and Ladies-In-Waiting.

“We also had Black Swan Park, so named because of the black swans imported into the area by Mordecai and Ruth Gist, avid lovers of waterfowl and birds in general. It was developed on the site where the Sportsman’s Cove Fish Camp now stands.

“Mr. Gist imported hundreds of lotus plants and placed them in and around the famous floating islands on Orange Lake. Those floating islands were written about in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.

“The Bird Island Cruise was also a popular tourist attraction, with an old Chris Craft decked out as a tour boat, which took nature lovers out onto Orange Lake from the boat dock in McIntosh, for a mere 50 cents.”

Until nature struck vicious blows in the form of three particularly bad winter freezes, citrus groves also provided a reason for tourists to visit McIntosh.

Ollie’s memories

O.D. “Buddy” Huff, a longtime resident of McIntosh and former chairman of the Florida Citrus Commission, operated an orange grove and citrus stand atop a hill south of town.

His widow, Ollie, says they considered the property “up on the hill” very special.

“It was where O.D. proposed. It’s where we had our Orange Shop and McIntosh is really where we lived for 32 years,” she says.

“Why, I worked hard at that Orange Shop, the hardest I ever worked! I used to say that was the main reason that O.D. kept me around, because I made some good money there.

“But then, when the freeze of 1983 happened, we lost everything. I had to bulldoze the property, burn the frozen trees and put cattle on the land. O.D. died the next year.

“I was so depressed that my friends in North Carolina found me a little place up here on a mountain, and I got out of Dodge for a while.”

Ollie, 83, now is a semi-permanent resident of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and calls her home in Golden Hills Ocala her permanent address.

Oranges and art

The Huff’s former Orange Shop site is set to soon become Sean Dowie’s Windmill Gallery.

“I came here to visit several years ago, and just fell in love with it,” says Sean, a freelance photographer who specializes in Florida landscapes.

“When I bought a house here and thought about opening a gallery, all the cards just came together. I got to know Ollie Huff and she agreed to lease me the property for my gallery.”

Dowie says he will feature his own photography and the works of other Florida artists in the new gallery. The opening date has yet to be announced.

“I want to have it all here. A teaching studio, a place for the kids to learn art and I want to open back up the shop, too, with my own homemade marmalades and oranges straight from the groves,” he says.

Ice House Gallery, an art gallery located in a restored ice house on the north end of town, opened several years ago and has enjoyed great success.

Magical McIntosh

In McIntosh, the homes have Victorian charm and massive, moss-draped oaks, centuries old, paint a serene picture. The town appeals to people who are looking for the Mayberry R.F.D. of their dreams.

Residents here do sit on their front porches and sip lemonade, casting wishes on night stars and watching lightning bugs glimmer into the summer sky. They look after one another’s children and one another’s property.

And therein lies the true magic of McIntosh. It’s a back-door-neighbor kind of community where, once you’ve lived there, you will always be connected to the town in a spiritual way.

McIntosh Town History

According to stories handed down from family to family, Baltimore merchant Nehemiah Brush acquired the land now known as McIntosh from the Arrendondo Land Grant (1817-1818) in 1830.

History records the actual purchase date as 1849, with plats drawn for building lots and 10-acre groves for growing citrus.

How the town got its name remains a mystery. Some say that Brush's brother-in-law, John Houston McIntosh, Jr., acquired some of the properties, developed a cotton and citrus plantation and thus became the namesake of the town.

Others say a squatter named McIntosh started a sugar mill and the merchants who traded with him named the town after him.

What is known is that times were brutally hard on settlers here in the 1800s.

Seminole Indians vehemently defended their land; plagues of mosquitoes, carriers of malaria, were rampant; and there were constant threats from indigenous reptiles such as water moccasins, rattlesnakes and alligators.

Even so, by 1840, McIntosh was a key stop on the Florida Southern Railroad and the "Orange Belt Route" ensured that owners of farmland in McIntosh would prosper.

Citrus was a staple of growers until "The Great Freeze of 1894" eliminated many groves and decimated rootstock.

Still, in 1947, McIntosh Depot records indicate that 800 carloads of produce and citrus were shipped, as well as 150 large truck loads. After two more disastrous freezes, the last in 1985, commercial citrus growing was abandoned.

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Freelance writer Brenda Flynn, formerly of McIntosh, now is based in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. She writes a weekly crafting column in the Star-Banner newspaper.

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LEED stands for "Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design," and there's plenty of it in the two-story, 19,000-gross-square-foot structure, which overlooks Mike Long Track and serves as the base of competitive and tournament operations and student-athlete services for the track-and-field program. While the university currently has eight other LEED projects in the works, the McIntosh Track and Field Building — one of the nation's finest facilities of its kind — is the first Florida State campus project to be officially LEED Certified.

"We are thrilled to deliver our first LEED Certified project," said Larry Rubin, Florida State's director of Facilities Design and Construction. "The McIntosh Track and Field Building is an energy-conscious facility that not only represents the right thing to do but also enables Florida State to save money over the long run by conserving energy and resources."

To become LEED Certified, an applicant must earn at least 26 hard-to-get points out of 69 in five out of six categories: sustainable sites; water efficiency; energy and atmosphere; materials and resources; indoor environmental quality; and innovative design.

To achieve its LEED Silver designation, which requires a total of 33-38 points in at least five categories, the McIntosh Track and Field Building went the extra mile required by the U.S. Green Building Council, whose building performance standards promote sustainability through energy-efficient design and responsible use of materials and resources.

"We reused or renovated sections of the existing track building and expanded it with new construction," Rubin said. "We used local or regional materials to save on transportation and trucking; energy-efficient lighting and mechanical systems; low-flow water fixtures; sorted or recycled construction debris; and low-VOC (volatile organic compound) paints and other eco- and sustainable finishes."

Rubin says a Silver rating is within reach for most of the university's other construction projects as well, and because of smart design guidelines, it's doable without adding significantly to up-front costs.

The building was named in honor of Mike and Winsome McIntosh, who became fans of Florida State when their son Mark was recruited to the Seminole track team. Over the years they have donated more than $1.5 million (of which $500,000 was committed to build the track training facility) to the university.

Mike McIntosh is president of the charitable foundation that is run by the McIntosh family. Its focus is environmental grant making.

"Upon graduating from the Choate School at 18 most of my classmates got cars," he said. "My folks gave me a lifetime membership in the Sierra Club. It stuck. Representing the McIntosh Foundation, one of the founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a long-time supporter of Earthjustice, both environmental law firms dealing with conservation issues, we couldn't be more pleased that the Track and Field Building carrying our name has received the LEED Silver Certification. Both the university and especially its Design and Construction department should be very proud of their accomplishment."

Florida State University formally dedicated the McIntosh Track and Field Building last November. With a total project budget of about $5.8 million, it was designed by Barnett Fronczak Barlowe Architects and built by Childers Construction Company.

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"The McIntosh Track and Field Building is an energy-conscious facility that not only represents the right thing to do but also enables Florida State to save money over the long run by conserving energy and resources."

Larry Rubin Florida State University Director of Facilities Design and Construction