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Curtis McQueen
44:10 - 44:39
"after the 2018 quake, we decided that we were going to design the building— and we have Stantec, our architects here— to a place where the entire village can muster, gather in an emergency. So it'll be a place where if, you know, a big event happened, the village could go to that building. So it's been designed for that. So it's evolved, but it's— we're really excited about that."
“after the 2018 quake, we decided that we were going to design the building— and we have Stantec, our architects here— to a place where the entire village can muster, gather in an emergency. So it'll be a place where if, you know, a big event happened, the village could go to that building. So it's been designed for that. So it's evolved, but it's— we're really excited about that.”
- Speaker
- Curtis McQueen
- Timestamp
- 44:10 – 44:39
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 18, 2026
From the transcript
That's why we call it the Gathering Center, so that we can gather there. The other thing that after the 2018 quake, we decided that we were going to design the building— and we have Stantec, our architects here— to a place where the entire village can muster, gather in an emergency. So it'll be a place where if, you know, a big event happened, the village could go to that building. So it's been designed for that. So it's evolved, but it's— we're really excited about that.
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