What did you do this morning? I rode on the new mountain bike trail at Las Catalinas. I was so excited to do it that I started my ride in the dark at about 4:30 this morning, with a headlight. It was fantastic! Our first bike trail building efforts last year were not quite perfect, but our guys ...
There is some exciting news in our region of Costa Rica, CIMA hospital has broken ground in nearby Carrillo which is roughly 40 minutes from Las Catalinas. CIMA currently operates a world class full service hospital and professional offices in San Jose and is one of the preferred private hospitals ...
There have been some whales hanging around Las Catalinas of late - especially a mother and baby. Bob Davey took this video with a small camera from his porch in Flamingo Monday morning. Pretty cool!
From today's Tico Times: Beginning in February 2011, Frontier Airlines will begin offering a new route from Denver, Colorado, to Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, capital of the northwest Costa Rican province of Guanacaste. Frontier has offered direct flights between Denver and Juan ...
Earlier this week, Luis Diego Calzada captured some video of two of Las Catalinas' Grey Foxes. We're sharing this land with some beautiful and amazing wildlife!
This spring, John Paget & Chris Elisara, of First and Main Media, produced the pilot episode for a series entitled American Makeover. The pilot focused on Atlanta (or Sprawlanta, as it was described), and Glenwood Park in particular.
Perhaps the most noticeable and noteworthy land animal in Las Catalinas is the Howler Monkey. "Congos", the locals call them. They make a very deep, loud, gorilla-sounding call. The first time I heard it, I thought that surely King Kong himself was about to burst out of the forest! And then when I ...
OK, at long last I have retrieved some video from our dolphin encounter last month. This is good! Be sure to turn up the sound and listen - the dolphins' echo-location chirping was a very nice part of the experience!
I'm off on a study trip in the Luberon region of Provence, in France. Douglas Duany had recommended this particular area as a great one to study hill town techniques and examples. He was right! Here is a shot of Gordes, where I am staying.
My friend and extraordinary all-round beach athlete Todd Clark was kind to turn me on to this site:
Glenwood Park is the 28-acre new neighborhood in Atlanta that my partners and I developed starting back in 2001. It is the subject of the pilot episode of a new documentary series called American Makeover - about recreating the built environment into something more sustainable and healthy. The ...
Potrero is the town that borders Las Catalinas, and over the last couple of years we have become involved in local affairs, trying to help out where we can. At the end of last month the Potrero Association received a Bandera Azul award for Playa Penca. This is a national award for environmental ...
Las Catalinas Information 2-10-10
Here is a link to a walkthrough of a 3-D model of our Phase One plan. It is still incomplete and a work in progress, but quite cool non-the-less!
Our ace trail building crews have created a new hiking trail through the central high peaks of Las Catalinas. This is one of the most dramatic hikes you will ever experience with stunning views in all directions. The trail is generally in the open, on the ridgeline, artfully looping back and forth ...
Yesterday we had the final studio presentations at the Notre Dame School of Architecture for this term's studio work on Las Catalinas. Very exciting! Most importantly I think we now have an excellent plan for the area just inland from of the public road from beach town. Also we got some well ...
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