Since it was announced in March 2001, The Noisette Project has been the focus of intense media coverage. Hailed as the single largest sustainable urban renewal project in the United States, Noisette has been featured nationally in newspapers like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, in addition to the Bloomberg News Service.

In addition, Noisette has received extensive regional coverage on television and in publications like the Charleston Regional Business Journal, in addition to industry trade magazines like Interiors & Sources, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Natural Home, Urban Land, Metropolis, and Eco-Structure. Feature stories about Noisette have circulated nationwide through press services like the Universal Press Syndicate and the Associated Press.

In July 2004, Noisette CEO John L. Knott, Jr. was honored by Interiors & Sources magazine as one of the nation’s 25 “Environmental Champions for 2004” – Knott is listed among an impressive group of executives and elected officials, including Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Peter Wege of the Wege Foundation, environmental author Paul Hawken, and Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, Inc.

The Noisette Community Master Plan has been recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects with the prestigious Award for Excellence in 2005, citing Noisette as the nation’s leading sustainable revitalization plan. In 2007, The Noisette Company, LLC, was awarded the Charleston Regional Business Journal’s Innovators award, for its holistic approach to revitalization with nonprofit initiatives. Accordingly, Noisette CEO John L. Knott, Jr., received an Individual award for his efforts in guiding the revitalization.

Easily, the Noisette Project has become one of the most eagerly anticipated urban renewal stories in the present-day United States. The project provides a rich tapestry for any writer or editor in search of a community-oriented, socially-conscious story. Noisette is not just about the physical process of urban renewal, it is about community renewal through non-profit initiatives in education, the arts, and social justice.

For trade journals covering the building industry, Noisette provides a case study of how the private sector can join forces with a municipality to revitalize a city recovering from the loss of a military facility, or major manufacturing plant. For the environmental media, the restoration of Noisette and Filbin creeks – long neglected and polluted by industry and US Navy – will serve as a harbinger for the renewal of ecological resources in our communities. In business terms, Noisette plans to develop a national center for non-polluting, green industry that could serve as an archetype for environmentally-conscious, sustainable building in the 21st Century. Noisette’s Institutional Framework, part of the master plan, implements nonprofit programs to remedy longstanding community problems. In business terms, Noisette is developing a national laboratory for the study of sustainability in urban revitalization, with the Noisette serving as an archetype for socially durable, environmentally-conscious community renewal in the 21st Century.

Although Noisette is a groundbreaking project, the principles of this redevelopment are deeply rooted in the commonsense, “sustainable” patterns of past growth. Indeed, Noisette offers an alternative to the mindless urban sprawl which has engulfed the rural areas of America’s major cities, threatening the fiscal health of the local tax structure nationwide.

Noisette is also revolutionary in that it targets the working and middle class, in an attempt to bring the concepts of sustainability to all people. Currently, the leading sustainable building project manufacturers have joined Noisette in a partnership called the Noisette Urban Alliance, which will promote the concepts of sustainability through a community resource called the Noisette Urban Alliance Studio. And, this is just the beginning for Noisette.

For more information, please contact Keith F. West, Director of Public Affairs, at publicaffairs@noisettesc.com, or call 843-762-4834.

We look forward to working with you in championing solutions in providing a healthier, sustainable future for America’s people.