With the Ashley River as a backdrop, Highland Resources CEO Clark Davis accepted an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for excellence in land reuse for the Magnolia property on the upper peninsula.

Highland will be among the first to break ground. The company has hired architect Jon Pickard of the global architecture firm Pickard Chilton to design a 125,000-square-foot office complex that it will develop. The five-story waterfront workplace will be perched on "The Point," offering views up and down the Ashley and across to state-owned Charles Towne Landing. The goal is "to create the best-in-class office project that Charleston's ever seen," Davis said.

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