All Posts Tagged With: "7 World Trade Center"

gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of August 31, 2008, including a new 6200-square-foot green arts venue in Gowanus called Littlefield, approval from Albany for Spanish energy giant Iberdrola to invest $2 billion in Upstate wind power, groundbreaking in White Plains on an affordable condo development that will feature geothermal power, and photos released of the lobby at Rafael Vinoly’s LEED Silver hopeful Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

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.

The intellectual property law firm Darby & Darby moved into the 41st and 42nd floors of LEED Gold-certified 7 World Trade Center last June. Gerner Kronick + Valcarel, Architects designed the firm’s 80,000-square-foot space, which includes a stainless steel, tension rod-suspended glass staircase that connects a two-story conference/multi-purpose room. GKV’s design emphasizes the natural light provided by 7 WTC’s floor to ceiling windows. Stretch fabric ceilings were installed in each of the office’s conference rooms and glass sidelights connect perimeter office doors to maximize light penetration into the interior.

According to the New York Observer, NBC is considering office space at both LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center and SJP Properties’ LEED Gold hopeful 11 Times Square. The network most recently visited 7 WTC on June 2, where the top ten floors of the tower remain available at asking rents around $75 per square foot. “NBC has been back to 7 World Trade Center a number of times, with executives and different division heads poring over the building,” a source told the Observer. Nevertheless, another source claims that NBC is now focusing on 11 Times Square, which is still seeking an anchor tenant, as well as other spaces along 8th Avenue. The network hopes to move its business operations into whatever new space it chooses sometime during 2009 .

The CoStar Group’s list of the top 50 Manhattan office leases that were finalized in 2007 appears in this week’s issue of Crain’s New York Business (though it isn’t available online). By our count, 9 of these 50 leases were inked for space in green office buildings. Importantly, 3 out of the top 10 leases (ranking 6 through 8, consecutively) were green. We’ve written about a number of these buildings before, and present each lease after the jump along with links to pertinent posts at gbNYC. We also set forth the tower’s certification status (if any), tenant, landlord, and total square footage of the deal.

As we briefly noted late last week, Larry Silverstein has secured another tenant for LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center. Advertising firm Arnell Group will pay $70 per square foot for the entire 40,000 square feet on the building’s 37th floor. According to the New York Observer, only 440,000 square feet remain across 11 floors [...]