gbNYC's First Quarter Review

This week's Easter and Passover holidays are a natural breaking point for us to take a quick look back at some of the articles we've presented here at gbNYC over the course of the first quarter of 2009. Those that we selected represent a pretty wide cross-section of what we've been tracking; affordable housing, green homes, and even some commercial real estate transactions, including retail, were all topics that we've touched on thus far in 2009. Not surprisingly, given the state of the economy, there were very few green leases that we identified; the recent Beijing Vantone deal at the Freedom Tower was the only lease in a green building that we wrote about during the first quarter. We've seen an uptick in smaller green condominium projects, particularly in Brooklyn, where we wrote about 100 Gold Street in Vinegar Hill and 580 Sterling Place in Prospect Heights. We also featured two much longer posts about BIM and green building project site location issues and continued to follow numerous green affordable housing projects across the five boroughs. One area we've been devoting increasing attention to is local green homes; we wrote about Bates Masi's Re-Cover House in Amagansett, Adam Kalkin's Bunny Lane in Bernardsville, and the Hoekenga House in West Cape May.

• Rethinking the Urban Garden: Broadway Penthouse
• Current Issues in Green Real Estate Development: Project Location Considerations
• Beijing Vantone Finalizes Lease at LEED Gold Hopeful 1 WTC
• R-House Wins From the Ground Up Competition
• Green Condos Under Construction at 100 Gold Street in Vinegar Hill
• TKTS Booth Brings Green Design to Heart of Times Square
• "Seriously Green" Condos at 580 Sterling Place
• Everyone Loves BIM (Whatever It Is)
• Bunny Lane: Container Architecture by Adam Kalkin in Bernardsville, New Jersey
• 195 Broadway Cops 2008 Energy Star Award
• Bates Masi's Re-Cover House in Amagansett
• Red Tail Ridge: New York's First Green Winery Building
• Lululemon Athletica & Kenneth Park Architect Open Green Outlet in SoHo
• New Jersey's First LEED-Certified Restaurant to Land in Ridgewood
• Steinway & Sons Begins Installation of Solar Power System in Long Island City
• 456 West 19th Street: Green Condos in West Chelsea
• Hoekenga House: LEED Gold in West Cape May, New Jersey
• Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund Makes First New York City Acquisition
• Wells Fargo "Attracted" to LEED-EB Efforts at 100 Park Avenue
• New York City's First Net Metered Commercial Array is America's Biggest
• Audubon Society Cops Highest LEED-CI Platinum Rating Ever at 225 Varick Street