Greensboro is so lucky. Greensboro Beautiful and the City of Greensboro are building a visitor center at Gateway Gardens on East Lee Street at the entrance to Barber Park. The venue is situated on eleven acres and will cost approximately 8 million dollars. The visitor center, photographed above, will be LEED certified. It sounds like the more funding they receive, the "greener" they can make the facility. It will be surrounded by 1) a wedding & rose garden; 2) a Japanese garden; 3) a white oak forest; and 4) will include the above facility where lots of learning, sharing, and celebrating can take place.
Greensboro Beautiful is an organization with many volunteers who work to keep Greensboro's public gardens beautiful and scheduled with events.* Please support this worthwhile organization in any way you can. At the very least, give a big thank you to the volunteers manning events when you see them.
Today is ABC Wednesday and we're almost through the alphabet. For this round of ABC Wednesday, we've committed to the theme of going green. V is for visitor center and volunteer.See A-U GO GREEN Greensboro posts here.
*The Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden, The Greensboro Arboretum, The Bog Garden at Benjamin Park and Gateway Gardens are all Greensboro Beautiful projects. If you want a copy of Greensboro Beautiful's newsletter, the SEED, go here. Who knows, you just may become their next VOLUNTEER (or VISITOR)!
Makes me proud of our city as do many other ongoing projects.
Posted by: Jane T. Mitchell | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 06:43 AM
It looks wonderful! Great choices for V! Thank you!
Wil, ABCW Team.
Posted by: Reader Wil | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 09:24 AM
Like the use of green space. Colorful buildings, too.
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
Posted by: Roger Green | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 01:46 PM
Always important to have a Vistors' Center for visitors to find out more about the community and what it has to offer.
Leslie
abcw team
Posted by: Leslie | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 02:09 PM
You sure are lucky! That is a lovely center to welcome folks to Greensboro, all we have are a couple cold bologna colored stone slabs at either edge of town.
Posted by: Janis of So Cal | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 03:51 PM
Even incomplete it looks inviting.
Posted by: Oakland Daily Photo | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 07:30 PM