Archived Meeting

Sustainable Redevelopment

Main Speaker

Melinda Moulton, Main Street Landing Company Melinda Moulton has been involved in environmental and socially conscious redevelopment since the early 1980s. She and her Main Street Landing Company redevelopment partner, Lisa Steele, created the innovative “team approach to design and development” philosophy and produced in concept a 25-year incremental redevelopment project for the Burlington Waterfront. Main Street Landing Company won the 2002 Energy Star for Small Business Award from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award recognizes firms that have exemplified the EPA’s Energy Star goals of common-sense, profitable efficiency improvements through better lighting, building tune-ups, electricity load reductions, efficient HVAC and office equipment. Melinda lectures on sustainable redevelopment, environmental and social consciousness and is presently working on a project at the corner of Lake & College Street which includes a 2-screen cinema, black box performance theater, restaurant, solarium, and retail and office space, viewing and pedestrian terraces, and public linkages to the Waterfront. She hopes that the project will help to sustain Vermont's creative economy and pointed out that local businesses will occupy the new spaces. Stay tuned... Melinda has offered to take VVN on a tour of the Lake & College project.

One Year Later...From Paper to Prototype to Market!?!?!

Cool Front, Inc. is developing a line of premium recreational snow sleds. Their launch product, the "Hammerhead" sled, will be available in 2004.

Co-founding brothers, Rich & Steve, updated VVN on their progress since last year at this time as well as provided insight, and hindsight, to other early-stage Vermont companies.

***Update: Cool Front's Hammerhead sled is now available
at EMS and direct to customer via their website... www.hammerheadsled.com !