Green Hotels
ML: Helmut Jahn’s 50 West Street Breaks Ground in Pursuit of Gold (Video)
Time Equities broke ground in a ceremony back in June on 50 West Street, a 65-story, $600 million, 580,000-square-foot mixed use tower that will rise along Rector Street, just a few blocks south of the World Trade Center site. The New York-based developer anticipates LEED Gold certification for the project upon a 2011 completion date. The base of 50 West Street will include a 5-star hotel offering 155 units, as well as retail space, with 280 condominium units sitting above. Designed by Helmut Jahn, the project will include a variety of sustainable design features ranging from automated blinds to a green roof, efficient plumbing fixtures, and renewable and recycled-content construction materials specified by architects of record Gruzen Samton. 50 West will be Jahn’s first executed design here in New York City since the CitySpire back in 1987.
Popularity: 16% [?]
11Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Brooklyn’s First Boutique Hotel Goes Green in Boerum Hill
Hersha Hospitality’s Nu Hotel, which opened earlier this month, is Brooklyn’s first boutique hotel. Located at 95 Smith Street, the 93-unit property is Hersha’s third hotel after the Duane Street Hotel in Tribeca and Philly’s Independent. Although it’s unclear whether the hotel will seek any LEED or other third-party green building certification, it does offer various eco-friendly features, ranging from organic bedding to custom furnishings crafted from sustainably harvested and FSC-certified teak wood, as well as cork flooring in each guest room. Hersha is also offering bike rentals and storage for guests that are serious about their carbon footprint.
Popularity: 17% [?]
22Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
7 WTC Tenant to Build 5-Star Green Resort in Bermuda
Scout Real Estate Capital, whose New York City offices are located on the 34th floor of Larry Silverstein’s LEED Gold-certified 7 World Trade Center, announced earlier this week that construction on a 5-star resort hotel in Bermuda’s Southampton Parish should commence in September after local officials approve the firm’s preliminary design plans. Scout has already commenced demolition of the Wyndham Beach Resort (which currently occupies the site) and is recycling reclaimed copper and concrete from the property. The firm intends to seek an unspecified LEED rating for the $300 million project, which should open up sometime in 2011, feature 150 guest rooms, and draw power from an on-site solar array.
Popularity: 17% [?]
22Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Hotel From Peter Moore Associates Set for Bowery
A new 63-room boutique hotel is slated for construction between Houston and Prince Streets across from the New Museum of Contemporary Art at 250 Bowery. The tower is tentatively scheduled to open in early 2009 after renderings were revealed close to three years ago. Designed and developed by Peter Moore Associates, the hotel will feature a number of green design elements ranging from a green roof and geothermal heating and cooling system to efficient plumbing systems and various renewable and recycled construction materials. The project is expected to seek a LEED Platinum rating. The Bowery hotel would join another planned green downtown boutique- the stalled Greenhouse 26, designed by Arpad Baksa.
Popularity: 19% [?]
10Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Microturbine Installation Complete at New York Marriott Downtown
The New York Marriott Downtown is the latest local property to install microturbines pursuant to New York City’s new legislation (dating from December) providing for their operation (under Title 1 of the Rules of the City of New York, Chapter 50, Distributed Energy Resource Standards). The hotel recently installed two PureComfort systems from UTC Power that will help offset 5800 megawatt hours of electricity each year and prevent 1700 tons of C02 emissions.
Popularity: 19% [?]
19Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
City Seeking Developer to Turn Bellevue into Green Hotel
Bellevue Hospital’s Psychiatric Building on First Avenue between East 29th and 30th Streets may be redeveloped into a LEED Silver-certified hotel and conference center as early as this fall. Next week, the city will hold a site visit and information session for developers interested in responding to an RFP that was issued on March 31; proposals will be due on June 13. The City will retain ownership over the site, but offer the winning bidder a 49-year ground lease, with two 25-year renewal options. Economic Development Corporation President Seth Pinsky stressed the opportunity that the First Avenue medical corridor offers developers “to capitalize on and support the City’s extraordinary academic, medical research, and healthcare assets.”
Popularity: 7% [?]
17Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: 200 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo Harvests 7200 Tons of Demolition Debris
A project in downtown Buffalo, New York is taking LEED’s Materials & Resources credit category quite seriously and expects to collect close to 7,200 tons of demolition material during the $68 million rehabilitation of what was once the Thaddeus J. Dulski Federal Office Building into the mixed-use 200 Delaware Avenue. Designed by architects Pfohl, Roberts and Biggie, the project team is slowly razing the existing 15-story building that dates from the 1970s and sorting each component of the structure, from its pipes and wires to light fixtures. According to co-developers Uniland Development Co. and Acquest Development, the effort should conserve 6,434 tons of concrete exterior panels, 570 tons of interior concrete and brick, 200 tons of steel and metal, and 10 tons of aluminum.
Popularity: 12% [?]
18Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Planning a Green Getaway? Eco-Friendly Hotels Abound Across the Golden State
The weather here in New York has been miserable of late, so it’s tough not to think about skipping town for a few days to sunnier skies. If you’ve reached that point already, Gregory Dicum of the New York Times recently visited four green hotels in California, including the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel, about which […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
29Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Firmdale’s Crosby Street Hotel Set to Seek LEED Gold in SoHo
The Crosby Street Hotel has been registered with USGBC since early April, but details about the project- which will seek a Gold rating under LEED for New Construction- have been hard to come by. Still, the hotel should open by the close of 2008, and given gbNYC’s recent attention to the hospitality industry, it deserves […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
20Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Unity Village Hotel & Conference Center- Midwest’s First LEED-Certified Hotel
At least to date, and for a number of different reasons, green hotels have been relatively hard to come by. A spate of announcements about projects here in New York City during 2007 (including 53 West 53rd Street and 330 Hudson Street) continue to help the local cause, but the hospitality industry at large still […]
Popularity: 15% [?]
17Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
53 West 53rd Street: Jean Nouvel Tower Set to Rise Above MoMA
Jean Nouvel’s design for a new seventy-five story tower at 53 West 53rd Street, adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, was unveiled late last week. Hines, which will develop the property, purchased the 17,000-square-foot site from MoMA for $125 million earlier this year. Construction won’t get underway until sometime in 2009, but […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
19Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
330 Hudson Street Aims to Transform Tribeca’s Hudson Square
We’ve written previously about Brennan Beer Gorman-designed 330 Hudson Street, but this week’s edition of Crain’s offers a few more details about the $220 million mixed-use hotel and office building project which will seek a LEED Silver rating from USGBC. Trinity Real Estate, which granted a 99-year lease to Tribeca Associates to develop the project, […]
Popularity: 13% [?]
6Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Hotel Industry Continues to Struggle in Defining Sustainable Standards
Despite the recent rash of green hotel projects that have been announced here in New York City (Starwood 1, Greenhouse 26, and 330 Hudson Street), the hospitality industry continues to struggle in establishing a uniform definition for a green hotel. As we’ve discussed previously, the 2006 BD+C Green Building White Paper drew this same conclusion, […]
Popularity: 9% [?]
25Sep2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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