All Posts Tagged With: "Connecticut"
Heritage Realty Services to Seek LEED Rating for 200K S/F Commercial Property in Greenwich
New York City-based Heritage Realty Services recently purchased 200,000-square-foot 600 Steamboat Road in Greenwich, Connecticut for $200 million. The deal is scheduled to close this fall and Heritage plans to upgrade a variety of building systems, among other renovations. The 36-year-old waterfront property sits adjacent to Greenwich Harbor includes a 600-space parking garage and a 350-foot-long floating dock. Architects Roger Ferris and Partners are supervising the project and will seek an unspecified level of LEED certification for the upgrades. Greenwich-based Gladstone Real Estate is banking on asking rents of $150 per square foot in light of recent local deals and 660 Steamboat Road’s location near I-95, the Northeast Corridor train line, and waterfront access.
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3Sep2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Litchfield House: Zero Energy Saltbox in Connecticut
The saltbox is one of the country’s oldest home construction techniques and an excellent example of American colonial architecture. Dating from the 1600s across New England, the saltbox’s shed roof and single story would face north with little to no glass in an effort to deflect winter winds. The two-story side of the design faced south, using large windows to passively collect solar energy. The Litchfield House is an effort to implement the principles of the historical saltbox using modern green building techniques. Perhaps the biggest difference in the Litchfield House from a traditional saltbox is that the house’s large roof faces south instead of north, allowing a rooftop photovoltaic system to collect nearly 13,000 watts of solar power annually.
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3Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Rose Companies’ Metro Green Breaks Ground in Stamford
A LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Project- one of 238 such projects in 39 states and D.C. and six countries- broke ground last Tuesday in Stamford, Connecticut. The mixed-use Metro Green will include 238 units of rental and condominium apartments, including 50 affordable housing units which constitute Phase I of the project. Jonathan Rose Companies has teamed up with W&M Properties for the residential component, which independently will seek LEED Gold under New Construction.
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9Jun2008 | Alex Padalka | 0 comments | Continued
A Greener Suburban Sprawl?
While green building and luxury living in Manhattan are now practically married, a truly unique candidate for LEED certification is now going up forty miles out of the city. “Green is becoming the new amenity of choice in luxury housing. Today’s socially conscious, upscale homebuyers are more concerned about the size of their carbon footprint than the size of their master bath,” Mark Hallett Robbins, president of NRDC Residential, the developer of Windermere on the Lake, announced in a press release. Windermere on the Lake is a planned residential community being developed in the Fairfield County community of North Stamford.
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8Apr2008 | Alex Padalka | 0 comments | Continued
Green Venture Capital, LEED Across the Tri-State, & Sustainable Hotels
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of March 9, 2008, including a number of new local LEED projects at SUNY-Orange and in Cumberland County, New Jersey, recognition for Governor Jon Corzine from USGBC’s New Jersey chapter, venture capitalists funneling dollars towards green construction companies, and a new commitment by the hospitality industry to implement sustainable design and operations.
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15Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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