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DesignPhiladelphia
The Center provides Philadelphia with educational programs, exhibitions, and a public forum to explore architecture, urban planning, and design, allowing visitors the opportunity to understand how these disciplines affect us all in our daily lives. Using our city’s distinctive breadth of architecture, pioneering urban design, and manufacturing heritage as the foundation for conversation, we educate the public through talks, exhibitions, publications, hands-on workshops, design competitions, festivals, and children’s programming.
Navy Yard - Philadelphia
Described by POLITICO Magazine as “the coolest shipyard in America” and by Urban Land Institute as “one of the most successful office/industrial master-planned redevelopments in U.S. history,” the Navy Yard is a 1,200-acre thriving waterfront community, with 7.5 million square feet of real estate in a mix of historic buildings and LEED® certified new construction oriented around world-class open space. More than $1 billion of public and private funding has been invested into the campus since the base closure, attracting over 150 companies employing more than 13,500 workers. At full build-out, the Navy Yard will support up 20 million square feet of development, 30,000 people, and over $3 billion of private investment. Get connected with the Navy Yard. Website: navyyard.org Facebook: @TheNavyYard Twitter: @navyyardphila Instagram: @navyyardphila
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CENTER for DESIGN PHILADELPHIA
// Getting to the Center // The Center, located near Philadelphia’s City Hall and just across the street from the Pennsylvania Convention Center, is easily accessible by foot, bike, bus, subway, regional rail, cab, + car. For detailed information on public transit options, check out SEPTA.org.
Carrie Brooke has been on a real professional joyride for the past 30 years, skipping and hopping from the agency world to startups and back again a few times. Her experience as a copywriter, publicist, stay home mama, freelance writer, first Philadelphia Community Manager for both Yelp and Google, creative recruiter, yoga teacher, People Ops leader, entrepreneur, Life and Career Coach, VP of Product and Chief Operating Officer have all led her to the role she’s been training for her entire career: Leisurist.
After being diagnosed with Long Covid, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia in the summer of 2024, Carrie stepped down from her role as COO of Technically Media to focus on her health and figure out what this new version of herself wants to be when she grows up. She just turned 51, moved to a new neighborhood, recently celebrated seven years of being alcohol-free and is a healthy combo of excited, nervous and blissfully unattached to the outcome for the first time in her life.
CB is a mom to two adult daughters and grandmother to the most perfect toddler in the world. Carrie is currently enjoying writing, making music, having deep conversations and seeing Phish as much as possible without being weird about it.
