{"615185":{"#nid":"615185","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Atlanta Developer Gene Kansas Joins LMC Advisory Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta cultural developer and Georgia Institute School of Technology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC) alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.genekansas.com\/\u0022\u003EGene Kansas\u003C\/a\u003E has joined the School\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;Advisory Board. Kansas graduated from the Institute in 2016 with a Master of Science in Digital Media.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking over 20 years in Atlanta commercial real estate, Kansas has garnered a reputation as a champion of historic preservation, adaptive reuse, community building, and storytelling through the built environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the\u0026nbsp;founder and president of Gene Kansas\u0026nbsp;Commercial Real Estate, his company preserved the\u0026nbsp;historic Atlanta Daily World Building in Sweet Auburn, which was named the second greatest preservation win\u0026nbsp;by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKansas is\u0026nbsp;the creator and founder of Constellations,\u0026nbsp;a civic and socially-based shared workspace on Auburn Avenue, which received a \u0026ldquo;Development of Excellence\u0026rdquo; award from the Atlanta Regional Commission in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKansas says he\u0026nbsp;is committed to helping bring business insights to the cultural and creative classroom, and leverage his experience\u0026nbsp;to the benefit of students.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELMC is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta cultural developer and Georgia Institute School of Technology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC) alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.genekansas.com\/\u0022\u003EGene Kansas\u003C\/a\u003E has joined the School\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;Advisory Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The LMC alumnus is renowned for his achievements in historic preservation and urban design. "}],"uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-12-10 16:38:13","changed_gmt":"2018-12-10 20:07:45","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615184":{"id":"615184","type":"image","title":"Gene Kansas","body":null,"created":"1544459829","gmt_created":"2018-12-10 16:37:09","changed":"1544459829","gmt_changed":"2018-12-10 16:37:09","alt":"Portrait photo of Gene Kansas","file":{"fid":"234256","name":"Gene Kansas 2017CroppedWebsized.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Gene%20Kansas%202017CroppedWebsized.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Gene%20Kansas%202017CroppedWebsized.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45893,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Gene%20Kansas%202017CroppedWebsized.jpg?itok=ac-xlGdr"}}},"media_ids":["615184"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179955","name":"Gene Kansas"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}