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Phil: New page: The '''Murphy Keller Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of Heifer International. The center is a $7.5 million pro...

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New page: The '''Murphy Keller Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of Heifer International. The center is a $7.5 million pro...

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The '''Murphy Keller Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $7.5 million project slated for completion in 2009.

In 2004 former [[Clinton Foundation]] president [[Skip Rutherford]] called the facility "a Third World version of Epcot Center."

==References==

==External links==

[[Category:Heifer International]]

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 [[Image:Heifer-ed-interior.JPG|thumb|300px|Interior of Heifer Education Building. Photo by Victor Frana.]]
 [[Image:Heifer-ed-frontelev.JPG|thumb|300px|Front elevation of Heifer Education Building. Photo by Victor Frana.]]
-The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project slated for completion in June 2009. The center will contain an exhibit hall, conference rooms, Fair Trade gift shop, and café. It will be surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March 2006, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.
+The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility next door to the [[Little Rock]] headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project completed in 2009. The center contains an exhibit hall, conference rooms, Fair Trade gift shop, and café. It is surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March 2006, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.
 In 2004 former [[Clinton Foundation]] president [[Skip Rutherford]] called the facility "a Third World version of Epcot Center." In 2008 Heifer spokesperson [[Ray White]] said, "Having an education building is really going to open the door for the public to come and have an experience - a deep experience we hope - of learning about the solutions to these very serious problems of world hunger and poverty." Because the Global Village is expected to one day attract a quarter of a million people each year, the education center is being designed as "the terminal building where in the future, people will buy their ticket to the world," said architect [[Reese Rowland]] in 2008.

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		+	[[Image:Heifer-ed-interior.JPG\|thumb\|300px\|Interior of Heifer Education Building. Photo by Victor Frana.]]
		+	[[Image:Heifer-ed-frontelev.JPG\|thumb\|300px\|Front elevation of Heifer Education Building. Photo by Victor Frana.]]
	The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project slated for completion in June 2009. The center will contain an exhibit hall, conference rooms, Fair Trade gift shop, and café. It will be surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March 2006, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.		The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project slated for completion in June 2009. The center will contain an exhibit hall, conference rooms, Fair Trade gift shop, and café. It will be surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March 2006, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.

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-The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project slated for completion in 2009. The center will contain an exhibit hall, conference rooms, gift shop, and café. It will be surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March 2006, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.
+The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project slated for completion in June 2009. The center will contain an exhibit hall, conference rooms, Fair Trade gift shop, and café. It will be surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March 2006, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.
 In 2004 former [[Clinton Foundation]] president [[Skip Rutherford]] called the facility "a Third World version of Epcot Center." In 2008 Heifer spokesperson [[Ray White]] said, "Having an education building is really going to open the door for the public to come and have an experience - a deep experience we hope - of learning about the solutions to these very serious problems of world hunger and poverty." Because the Global Village is expected to one day attract a quarter of a million people each year, the education center is being designed as "the terminal building where in the future, people will buy their ticket to the world," said architect [[Reese Rowland]] in 2008.
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 Heifer facilities director [[Eric Swindle]] describes the wetlands as "irrigation for trees" and a "natural filtration system." The center is being built to [[Green Globes]] standards for green building. Green Globes is a verification system created by the Portland, Oregon, based Green Building Initiative.
-The center, named for [[Polly Murphy Keller Winter]] and [[Christoph Keller Jr.]] is expected to open in June 2009.
+Groundbreaking on the center, named for [[Polly Murphy Keller Winter]] and [[Christoph Keller Jr.]], began in November 2007. The address of the facility is 1 World Avenue in Little Rock.
 ==References==

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−	The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project slated for completion in 2009. The center will contain an exhibit hall, conference rooms, gift shop, and café. It will be surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March ~~2005~~, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.	+	The '''Polly Murphy & Christoph Keller Jr. Education Center''' is a hunger educational facility under construction near the Little Rock headquarters of [[Heifer International]]. The center is a $13.5 million, 16,000 square-foot project slated for completion in 2009. The center will contain an exhibit hall, conference rooms, gift shop, and café. It will be surrounded by wetlands and lands seeded in wild grasses. The center is the second phase in a three phase project that began with the completion of the Little Rock Heifer International headquarters building in March 2006, and will end with the creation of a Global Village.

	In 2004 former [[Clinton Foundation]] president [[Skip Rutherford]] called the facility "a Third World version of Epcot Center." In 2008 Heifer spokesperson [[Ray White]] said, "Having an education building is really going to open the door for the public to come and have an experience - a deep experience we hope - of learning about the solutions to these very serious problems of world hunger and poverty." Because the Global Village is expected to one day attract a quarter of a million people each year, the education center is being designed as "the terminal building where in the future, people will buy their ticket to the world," said architect [[Reese Rowland]] in 2008.		In 2004 former [[Clinton Foundation]] president [[Skip Rutherford]] called the facility "a Third World version of Epcot Center." In 2008 Heifer spokesperson [[Ray White]] said, "Having an education building is really going to open the door for the public to come and have an experience - a deep experience we hope - of learning about the solutions to these very serious problems of world hunger and poverty." Because the Global Village is expected to one day attract a quarter of a million people each year, the education center is being designed as "the terminal building where in the future, people will buy their ticket to the world," said architect [[Reese Rowland]] in 2008.

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 *Larry Copeland, "City Takes Cue from Comeback Kid: Clinton Library Breathes Life into Struggling Little Rock," ''USA Today,'' October 8, 2004.
-*Michelle Hillen, "Building Work at Heifer Site Kicks Off," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette," March 10, 2008.
+*Michelle Hillen, "Building Work at Heifer Site Kicks Off," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' March 10, 2008.
 ==External links==
 [[Category:Heifer International]]