City Selects Gowanus Green; LEED for AOL HQ & New York Theater Workshop

• Blue Sea Development “bucking” the trend of projects registering but not achieving LEED certification with affordable Morrisania Homes, Melrose Commons V, and Fox Leggett projects in the Bronx
• City selects Gowanus Green to develop LEED Gold & LEED-ND development along Gowanus Canal between 5th and Smith Streets
• Despite budget cuts, New York Theater Workshop’s LEED-certified scenery, costume, and prop shop at 72 East 4th Street to proceed with May 14 ground-breaking
• New Mancini Duffy-designed AOL headquarters at 770 Broadway to seek LEED rating
• Port Authority head Anthony Shorris resigns; had recently proposed carbon neutral agency by 2010
• The Green Issue appears in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine

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