Joseph Barnes is now director of architecture and

Joseph Barnes is now director of architecture and design for Celebration Associates. Barnes is based in Hot Springs, Virginia, where that firm has taken on a major project at the rural end of the Transect. The firm bought the Virginia Hot Springs Inc. holding company, which came with 11,500 acres of land, and is expanding the town’s main street, based on a plan by Urban Design Associates. Celebration Associates is also developing 450 houses on low-density sites, and 9,000 of the acres were sold to the Nature Conservancy, Barnes told New Urban News. Celebration Associates, based in Fort Mill, South Carolina — where the firm has been developing Baxter Village — also has a 100-house project called Bundoran Farm near Charlottesville, Virginia, that involves preservation of a large piece of agricultural land. Barnes, who recently worked as general manager at East Beach in Norfolk, Virginia, said taking this new job enables him to team up with Charles Adams and Don Killoren, whom he worked with at Celebration in the 1990s.