Media Campus at Brooklyn Navy Yard, LEED-EB Platinum in Buffalo, & Tough Green Real Estate Market

• Brooklyn Navy Yard to include New York Media Campus, designed to attract additional film, TV, and entertainment companies to the LEED-certified development
• Deutsche Bank demolition and asbestos abatement to be completed separately but by close of 2009
• Developer of Hudson Yards faces number of complications thanks to MTA decision to lease the site rather than sell it outright
• First existing building in New York State, tenth in the U.S., and oldest in the world, the headquarters of environmental services firm Ecology and Environment, Inc. in Buffalo, earns LEED-EB Platinum rating from USGBC
• Real estate purchasers having difficulty locating green properties, even with the assistance of Eco-Brokers, who remain difficult to identify

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