Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and Wilson Darbin, Project Manager for the Office of Planning and Economic Development, joined to welcome students and staff from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) to Springfield City Hall. Mayor Sarno chatted with Masters of Landscape Architecture Director and Professor Frank Sleegers, Professor Michael Perla Di Pasquale, and graduate students in the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning program within UMass Amherst’s College of Social & Behavioral Sciences on Wednesday inside City Hall’s school committee chambers. City Hall was one stop on the students’ walking tour of Springfield yesterday as they kick-off a new semester.
Mayor Domenic J. Sarno stated, “We’ve had a great relationship and much success with this program, and it is always a pleasure to meet UMass’s new incoming landscape architecture and planning graduate students, including of our own city Planning & Eco Dev interns. I met students from different parts of the state, country, around the world yesterday who are studying planning and architecture at UMass and we had a great conversation about planning in an urban center like the City of Springfield. Thank you to the faculty and all the students for coming down to visit our Springfield, and thank you to CDO Tim Sheehan, Deputy Brian Connors, Project Manager Wilson Darbin, and our entire Planning & Eco Dev team for helping us welcome them to our city. Wishing all continued success as the new semester begins. We look forward to their ideas, vision, energy, and vibrancy.”
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) at UMass Amherst: https://www.umass.edu/landscape-planning/graduate
