Speakers:

• John Stevenson, PE, Executive Vice-President of The Projects Group; consultant to Transform 1012

• Carlos Gonzalez-Jaime, Executive Director of Transform 1012 N Main Street

• W. Mark Gunderson, AIA

About Transform 1012:

Recipient of a Texas Society of Architects 2023 ‘Citation of Honor’ Award, Transform 1012 is attempting to occupy the 1924 Ku Klux Klan Auditorium at 1012 North Main; occupied for over 5 decades as the Ellis Pecan Warehouse. To be known as The Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing, multiple diverse entities – local, state and national - are part of the project which is centered on the idea of love, compassion, diversity and acceptance transforming a structure once created and fixated on the opposite. Multiple grants from across the country are funding the effort and the architect selection process is underway currently.

Photo by Robert Chura