Sustainable Stadiums
Baseball’s All-Star Game to Bid Green Farewell to House That Ruth Built
While the New York Yankees have been mum on the green design features (if any, though the project is not seeking a LEED rating) at their new $1 billion stadium in the Bronx which will open up next April, Major League Baseball announced today that next month’s All-Star Game (July 15) at the current Yankee Stadium across the street will be “the greenest event in MLB’s history.” MLB has partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to promote environmental awareness at this year’s Midsummer Classic.
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5Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
gbNYC Audiocast, Episode 7: Nationals Park & Sustainable Stadiums
Episode 7 of the gbNYC Audiocast turns the tables a bit as we interview our Producer, Ryan Genovese, who is also a Washington Nationals season ticket holder, about opening night at Nationals Park in D.C.- the first LEED-certified baseball stadium in the country. The episode discusses the stadium in detail, including fan reaction to particular green elements, though passes on any discussion of just how sustainable spending $611 million in public funds to build the ballpark might have been. We also take a quick look around the rest of the American sports landscape at green efforts from other teams, in terms of their facilities and business practices, both at the professional and collegiate levels.
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18Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Carbon Neutral Nets Can’t Offset Fan Skepticism
Back in January, I wrote in this space about the Nets Go Green initiative, in which the NBA’s New Jersey Nets announced their intentions to push for carbon neutrality, “adopt sustainable practices” wherever possible, turn off the lights when they weren’t in the room, et cetera. In retrospect, much of my skepticism regarding the initiative was obviously a result of my broader cynicism about the team’s current ownership group. It doesn’t mean I was wrong to doubt the Nets’ commitment to sustainability, but…I don’t know, I’m trying to have some insight. My relationship with these guys is complicated.
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3Apr2008 | David Roth | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Nationals Open Gates at America’s First Green Ballpark
Last week, brand-new $611 million Nationals Park, home to the National League East’s Washington Nationals baseball club, officially received a LEED Silver rating from USGBC, becoming the first baseball stadium in the country to earn the designation. Just a scant few days before Major League Baseball’s 2008 Opening Day, the ballpark earned 33 LEED points for a design by HOK Sport that, among other things, respects the park’s location in Southeast adjacent to D.C.’s Anacostia River. So far, so good for the Nats at their new home; Ryan Zimmerman cracked a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to give the club a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves in the first regular season game at the ballpark on Sunday night.
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31Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Green Design Features Announced for Mets’ Citi Field
Newsday and MLB.com reported yesterday that the Mets are planning to incorporate a variety of sustainable features into the new Citi Field, set to open in April 2009. The $800 million stadium is being built using 95 percent recycled steel, and will be lit for night games using energy-efficient field lighting. The bathrooms will feature low-flow plumbing elements like hands-free faucets and waterless urinals that the EPA estimates will save 4 million gallons of water a year. The Mets also plan to install a 15,000 square foot green roof on the administration building in order to cut down on heating and cooling costs and are working with the MTA to continue to encourage people to take public transportation to games. The club has also partnered with EPA’s Energy Star program and will implement a recycling program with its concessions vendor, ARAMARK.
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14Mar2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued
(Still N.J.) Nets Shooting to Wash Fans in Green
Leaving aside a foul-baiting flop here and a feigned hit-by-pitch there, sports as they are played are fairly straightforward. It’s when the front offices come into play that it’s time to turn the spam filter on. And so it is with the New Jersey Nets’ new “Shoot To Be Green” initiative. As one of many uninspiring old Nets billboard slogans proclaimed, “You can’t fake a fast break.” Greenwashing a franchise, however, is another story.
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16Jan2008 | David Roth | 0 comments | Continued
Tampa Bay Rays, Hines, to Develop LEED-Certified Ballpark on St. Petersburg Waterfront
Though their respective performances on the field could not be more wildly different, New York City and Tampa Bay do share a baseball connection; it’s where the Yankees hold their spring training and home to George Steinbrenner. The Boss even threatened to move the Bronx Bombers to Tampa during the Yanks’ lean years in the […]
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30Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Patriots to Purchase Green Power for Gillette Stadium
Not to be outdone by the green efforts of this year’s World Series champions, the New England Patriots have announced that they’ve signed a four-year agreement to purchase renewable energy credits to completely offset their game day electrical use at Gillette Stadium, whose regular consumption is enough to power 2,269 homes for a day. The […]
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15Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
The Sustainable World Series: Both Rockies and Red Sox Swing for the Green
The World Series got underway last night at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, which dates from 1912. The mere age of the facility, coupled with its dense, urban location, makes it inherently sustainable, but the Sox have also quietly started to implement a variety of interesting green features at their venerable old […]
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25Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 4 comments | Continued
Gang Green Goes Green: New York Jets Announce Naming Rights Agreement for LEED-Certified Florham Park Training Facility
The New York Jets today announced a twelve-year naming rights agreement with Atlantic Health, a Northern New Jersey health care provider, for the team’s new $75 million training facility that’s currently under construction in Florham Park. Hunter Roberts Construction Group is managing the project, which broke ground back in April and was designed by David […]
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24Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Kettler Capitals Iceplex: Arlington, Virginia
The Washington Capitals’ new training center facility in Arlington, Virginia isn’t a stadium at all (it only seats 1,000 people), but I think it’s important to track the green building efforts of our professional sports teams. As I’ve written about before, green stadiums and arenas present unique design issues that aren’t sufficiently contemplated by LEED […]
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13Jul2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued-
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