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LA Chosen for New Miami Beachfront Museum

The board of trustees of the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust in Miami, Florida, has chosen BEA International Inc. of Coral Gables, Fla. and Huff & Gooden Architects LLC of Charleston, SC to design and build the country's first beachfront museum.  Renowned landscape architect Walter Hood, of Hood Design in Oakland, CA, will design the museum's gardens and grounds.  Hood, an African-American, is a professor and former chair of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California at Berkeley.

The museum will honor Miami's once-segregated "colored-only beach" and preserve the beach's natural habitat and its many native species.  Virginia Key is part of a chain of barrier islands that stretch from Miami south to Key West.  Virginia Key, Key Biscayne and Miami Beach are part of the natural island chain that forms the northeastern boundary of Biscayne Bay.

            

ScottsMiracle-Gro Grows

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company has completed its acquisition of the Rod McLellan Company, which sells soil and landscape products in the western part of the United States.  Scott's chairman and CEO Jim Hagedorn said the addition of McLellan's Supersoil(R), Whitney Farms(TM) and Black Magic(R) brands will help the company improve its supply chain "to better serve our retail customers."

Scott's Miracle-Gro is the world's leading supplier of branded products for consumer lawn and garden care.  In the U.S., its best known brands are Miracle-Gro(R), Scotts(R), Ortho(R) and Roundup(R).