LEED Gold-certified

LEED Gold-certified

Leasing Activity Continues at LEED Gold-Certified 7 World Trade Center

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Jul

Steve Cuozzo reported earlier this week in the Post that Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) is heading downtown from West 57th Street to sublease 58,000 square feet on the 30th and 31st floors of 7 World Trade Center from Dutch bank ABN Amro, which signed up for 140,000 square feet 3 years ago but never moved into the space. Italian insurer Generali will take 17,000 square feet from ABN, and two undisclosed financial services firms are close to signing deals for the remaining space. Cuozzo notes these transactions in the context of 7 World Trade Center's "continued appeal even as demand for downtown office space has lagged amid expectations that huge amounts of space will soon be put up for grabs by such firms as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch." How much of that appeal stems from its LEED certification is difficult to quantify, but it's clear that Larry Silverstein is enjoying a competitive advantage in an incredibly challenging commercial leasing market thanks, in some part, to his tower's green design features.

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Tishman Speyer's Gotham Center: LEED for Core & Shell in Long Island City

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Oct

by Stephen Del Percio

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Currently under development by Tishman Speyer, the $316 million Gotham Center will be a 662,000-square-foot, 21-story Class A office building at the corner of Queens Plaza and 28th Street in Long Island City. Mayor Bloomberg and other officials announced the project's groundbreaking last Friday, noting that it will join a number of other green projects in the neighborhood, including the LEED Gold-certified, KPF-designed Court Square Two.

The tower was designed by architects Moed De Armas & Shannon (510 Madison Avenue, 1095 Sixth Avenue) and is pursuing a LEED Certified rating under the Core and Shell system. The project's interiors- which will ultimately be home to the New York City Health Department after the agency consolidates most of its offices in lower Manhattan- will aim for LEED Silver.