The Langston Facility project successfully united several disparate groups, including the owners of the job, the community, the designers, and the builders. The owners, Arlington Public School and Arlington County Parks and Recreation, worked with the School Board and community groups to ensure that the Langston job met the needs of the community. The architects and engineers, in cooperation with the U.S. Green Building Council (implementing agent for the LEED program), created a design that satisfied the owners with its LEED-compliant features. John C. Grimberg and its subcontractors came together with these groups to construct a high quality building that not only met, but even exceeded, the criteria for LEED and sustainable design.

The partnership of these groups brought to fruition the dream of the community to replace the historical “Langston-Brown Community Center and Langston School” with a state-of-the-art 50,000 square foot facility on 2.5 acres of land that would be a source of pride not only to the community, but to the whole metropolitan area.

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