Chelsea Heights Condo Tour

Hi Everyone,

Don't forget the condo construction tour this week!!! There's a limited number of hard hats available for use so sign up quickly. You can replied to this post if you want to go or email Marianne at MWombac...@bcradesign.com

The AIA SWW Emerging Leaders Group will be organizing a series of tours through buildings in various stages of construction. The first event will be a tour through Chelsea Heights by BCRA and Jennifer Weddermann-Hay will be conducting the tour. This is open for anyone who is interested. Please bring you own hard hats, wear smart shoes and dress appropriately for a site visit.

Date: Thursday February 28, 2008

Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Location: 603 South "J" Street - Corner of 6th and "J" (Parking is limited around the site.)

Description: Chelsea Heights is a mixed-use building with the first level consisting of 20,000 SF of commercial space with three residential levels above and two levels of below grade parking. This project contains 76 residential units surrounding a public plaza and an open atrium.

Varsity Lunch Reschedule

Good afternoon everyone.

Last time we met we talked about meeting for lunch today at the Varsity. If there are no objections I would love to reschedule for next Teusday at the Varsity. If this will create problems with anyone, please, let me know via my work email address (dion.se...@mcgranahan.com). Thanks. My apologies for the short notice.

Respectfully,

Dion Serra

Don't forget lunch at the Harmon today

If you already forgot over the three-day weekend our monthly lunch meeting will be at the Harmon Brewery today.

New changes

Hi everyone,

Don't forget the monthly lunch at the Harmon Brewery next Tues, 22nd at noon. Here's their website, http://www.harmonbrewing.com/ Hope to see you all there. Bring a friend or two.

I want to let you all know of a recent change that's going on. With that said, Dion Serra has offer to take over my responsibilities and maintain the Emerging Leaders Group. So, you'll see more emails from him now instead of me. If you have any questions or ideas for the group, email him or post it on here.

Also, don't forget the first ARE study session tomorrow night.

See you all there!

Introducing ARE session

Hi everyone!!!

As you all are aware, the AIA chapter has started the ARE study sessions. These are helpful sessions for anyone who's interested. For those who are currently taking the exams, this will be really helpful in getting you prepare for it. For those who's not ready to take the exams, there are plenty of things you could learn by attending these sessions and be able to apply it to your work.

I hope to see you all there on Thursday, January 17th from 5:30-7:30pm. Make sure you rsvp to Cheryl Zoltak at aia@aiasww.org before January 15th. We need an accurate count of people so nobody will be standing.

On another note, don't for get our monthly lunch meeting on Tues, January 22nd @ noon. We will be at the Harmon Brewery. Here's the website, http://www.harmonbrewing.com/. It's been awhile since our last meeting so there will be lots to talk about. There are a lot of upcoming events for the year 2008 so keep your calendar open

December Meeting

Hi all,

There won't be a lunch meeting this month since it's pretty much consider Xmas the entire month for some people. We'll start the meetings up again for January. Also, I'll see about picking a date for a social hour. I think we're due for one.

Happy holidays.

Upcoming Events

Hi all,

Sorry we missed those who didn't make it to the Swiss last Tues. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. There are a few things I want to over that was discussed at the meeting.

- Cheryl will be mentioning our group and the grant we just got at the upcoming AIA newsletter. I will be using some pictures I've taken so far (they're on this website) for this newsletter and other media publications. So if anybody who does not want their pictures shown in the paper, please let me know.

- Jon Denton has been working on setting up some exciting architectural tours with the AIA continuing education committee. It'll be for AIA LU or IDP units, whichever ones you'd need. Jon will let us know as soon as tentative dates are set as well as location (Seattle or Tacoma). If you have any tours ideas or places you'd like to visit, please let Jon know.

- Dion Serra, a recent addition to our group, has agreed to take on the 'high school mentorship' activity. He'll be working with local high schools on starting up a mentorship curriculum between high school students and our group. If anybody would like to help Dion or have any ideas, contact him.

- It's been awhile since we had our social event, since Habitat for Humanity. I'd like to start one up again sometime soon. I know we had s couple of new addition to our groups since we started. So, with that said, keep a look out for new events. If anyone has ideas on what they want to have as our next social event, post it on here. I was thinking maybe happy hour?

I know this is a long post, but one last thing. If you want to start a discussion, say anything, complain about anything, post it on here. This google site was created so we could have an open communications between us. So....talk it up.