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  <title><![CDATA[Atlanta Developer Gene Kansas Joins LMC Advisory Board]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Atlanta cultural developer and Georgia Institute School of Technology <a href="https://www.lmc.gatech.edu/">School of Literature, Media, and Communication</a> (LMC) alumnus <a href="https://www.genekansas.com/">Gene Kansas</a> has joined the School&#39;s&nbsp;Advisory Board. Kansas graduated from the Institute in 2016 with a Master of Science in Digital Media.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Working 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.</p>
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<p>As the&nbsp;founder and president of Gene Kansas&nbsp;Commercial Real Estate, his company preserved the&nbsp;historic Atlanta Daily World Building in Sweet Auburn, which was named the second greatest preservation win&nbsp;by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2014.</p>

<p>Kansas is&nbsp;the creator and founder of Constellations,&nbsp;a civic and socially-based shared workspace on Auburn Avenue, which received a &ldquo;Development of Excellence&rdquo; award from the Atlanta Regional Commission in 2018.</p>
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<p>Kansas says he&nbsp;is committed to helping bring business insights to the cultural and creative classroom, and leverage his experience&nbsp;to the benefit of students.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>LMC is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.&nbsp;</p>
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