By Amy Wenk – Staff Reporter, Atlanta Business Chronicle Oct 10, 2023 Updated Oct 10, 2023 2:58pm EDT About seven years ago, when 23 acres of brick warehouses along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail were turned into a new project called Lee + White, it attracted a collection of popular breweries and restaurants. Now, the next wave of tenants […]
ATLANTA, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Cleantech hydrogen energy company JTEC Energy, Inc. announced that it has moved to the mixed-use Lee + White development on the Atlanta Beltline. In August, JTEC completed an extensive renovation to house its new offices, laboratory, and machine shop at the adaptive reuse project in Atlanta’s West End. Commercial Realtors Cori Nuttall and Willie Candler with Lee & Associates secured the […]
JTEC founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson featured in this week’s profile for “Faces of Change” by Pattrn. Transcript provided by TheGrio. Many know Lonnie Johnson for his invention of the high-performance water gun toy known as the Super Soaker. But, not many know him for his contribution to the Galileo spacecraft as a jet propulsion designer. […]
JTEC founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson was the commencement speaker for the 2023 graduating class of the University of South Alabama. Watch his speech here:
Article by John Sharp for AL.com Spring Hill College Graduation Filtering through misinformation, pushing back against book bans, and being “woke,” were among the charged cultural and topical issues Alabama native and Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson warned against Saturday during a commencement address at Spring Hill College. Johnson, an Atlanta scientist and engineer and […]
Article by Madeleine Key for Forbes A curiosity of the innovation ecosystem is that while inventors are celebrated for their uniquely important contributions, they’re also underrepresented. Inventors are rarely speakers at conferences about intellectual property and technology. They do not hold leadership positions at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A lone inventor sits on […]
Lee + White Project Wins CoStar’s Atlanta Redevelopment of Year Award by Tony Wilbert for CoStar News A former warehouse row that already had been remade into a food-and-entertainment hub in Atlanta’s hip West End neighborhood has been expanded to include new uses that made it an even more popular place to hang out. When […]
Opportunity Hub is joining forces with Greater New Orleans, Inc., The Biden-Harris Administration’s Economic Development Administration and Louisiana Economic Development as a part of the “H2 the Future Build Back Better Hydrogen Energy Innovation Initiative” to launch a New Energy Technology Incubator, prioritizing racial equity in innovation, entrepreneurship and investment. OHUB will host a monthly […]
A Q1 2023 report by Cushman & Wakefield details our upcoming move to the Atlanta BeltLine. Download the full report here. WESTSIDE TRAIL The Westside Trail continues to see extensive growth and connects some of Atlanta’s oldest and most historic neighborhoods. Consisting of multiple segments, the Westside Trail will run 5.5 miles from Huff Road […]
This billion-dollar-selling toy was inspired by heat pumps Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson talks to Canary Media about the toy’s origin story and what he’s working on now as a climatetech entrepreneur. 31 January 2023 By Mike Munsell for Canary Media An early Super Soaker prototype (lonniejohnson.com) Canary Media’s Climate Meets Culture column explores the intersection of energy, climate […]