BP Installs Original Sculpture

June 3, 2004

Buchanan Partners Installs Original Sculpture at Euclid Business Center in Manassas, VA

 Manassas, Virginia, June 3, 2004…. Buchanan Partners has installed an original sculpture by Rodney Carroll at Euclid Business Center in Manassas, Virginia. Buchanan Partners developed the 144,000 square foot Euclid Business Center in partnership with the Kao family. The project is nearly completely leased to a combination of technology, service, government, defense, and wholesale entities.

The sculpture installation was especially significant, explained Buchanan Partners’ Brian Benninghoff, because it involved a partnership with the local high school. Last fall, a group of art students from Osbourn Park High School hand-sanded and repainted the disassembled steel sculpture prior to its re-assembly and installation under the direction of the artist. The students and their teachers attended the dedication ceremony, proud to see the fruits of their labors displayed so prominently. The high school is located next door to Euclid Business Center.
Carroll’s sculpture is part of a series based on energy and motion, depicting the spatial relationships of energies, explained the artist. The sculpture at Euclid Business Center, titled Kazimoc XXIX, was inspired by a particular sword cut used in ancient Japanese martial arts.

Discussing how art helps bond communities, George Mason University Associate Dean Rick Davis noted that the sculpture “creates a community of passers-by by organizing a portion of their space and time.” Davis heads GMU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Euclid Business Center is one of a number of office/flex/industrial projects developed by Buchanan Partners in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Some of these successful projects have been sold as office/flex condominiums.

Over the past six years, Buchanan Partners has developed a Washington, D.C. metropolitan area portfolio of over two million square feet of commercial property. The portfolio includes office, industrial, flex and retail space projects that have been developed, acquired, approved, or under construction. Buchanan Partners also has acquired, planned or developed over 600 acres of commercial land.

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