The dedication ceremony for the PBK-designed Clear Creek ISD Challenger Columbia Stadium in League City, Texas, was a community-wide celebration. Emerging onto the field for the first time, through their respective mascot tunnels, were hundreds of students representing all types of athletics and fine arts that will take place in the new stadium. Ellen Ochoa, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and astronaut Mike Fincke spoke on behalf of the families of the flight crews of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, for which the stadium was named. The stadium complex, complete with track and field amenities, will hold the Region III, 6A Track Meet on April 29-30, hosting athletes, coaches and spectators from more than 75 high schools.
Jones|Carter accepted the Gold award for the Cottage Grove Low Impact Development and the Silver award for Pecan Lakes Flood Protection at the annual ACEC Texas Engineering Excellence awards on March 21 in San Antonio. The ACEC annual awards recognize projects that exhibit true innovation and are outstanding in every way. The low impact development (LID) was a pilot project for the city of Houston. The Jones|Carter team researched successful LID implementation on public projects throughout the nation and incorporated LID elements into Cottage Grove that were developed specifically for the region. The project has demonstrated that LID projects can be highly successful both in function and in providing value to future city projects.