gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of November 23, 2008, including the opening of New York City’s first green nightclub, a merger for Brooklyn-based green building materials supplier Green Depot, more green affordable housing in the outer boroughs, and the opening of Cambodia’s first green building, designed pro bono by the New York office of Cook + Fox.
November 30th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Cook + Fox"
Final Asking Rents at LEED Platinum Bank of America Tower Hit $185/SF
Hedge fund HBK Investments, which last summer signed on for LEED Platinum hopeful Bank of America Tower’s 40th floor at $135 per square foot, has officially terminated its commitment for 12,000 square feet of that space. The Dallas-based firm will still retain 24,000 square feet on the 40th floor and the Dursts will now seek to lease the freshly freed space for an incredible $185 per square foot. The only space in the building that remains in addition to HBK’s former space is 30,000 square feet on the 37th floor, where the Dursts are asking the same rent; the family will consider partitioning either space into blocks for smaller tenants. According to Eric Engelhardt, one of Durst’s vice presidents for leasing, “[t]here is a greater universe of smaller tenants looking for high end space.”
August 20th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
UES Green Wall, Delays at Atlantic Yards, Reviewing the Lucida, & More Spec 8th Avenue Office Space
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of August 3, 2008, including the installation of a living wall above Pure Yoga on East 86th Street, more delays for Bruce Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yards development, a review of Cook + Fox’ LEED hopeful Lucida condo project on the Upper East Side, and plans for another speculative office tower along 8th Avenue from Boston Properties and Related, in between 11 Times Square and 250 West 55th Street.
August 9th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Gore Finalizes 5500 s/f Lease at Bank of America Tower
The New York Observer reported earlier today that Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management firm has finalized its lease for 5500 square feet on the 48th floor of the Durst Organization’s Bank of America Tower, which expects to receive the first-ever LEED Platinum rating for a commercial high-rise from USGBC. Asking rents at the Midtown tower, which was designed by Cook + Fox, had been hovering around $185/square foot; it’s unclear how much Gore’s firm agreed to pay for the space, but as of last July, this was the asking price for the only two remaining floors in the building.
May 27th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Cook + Fox to Perform Green Makeover at “Disturbing” 375 Pearl Street
375 Pearl Street stands at the base of the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge and has been primarily a telephone switching center, most recently for Verizon, since it opened in 1975 to uniformly negative architectural reviews. (Paul Goldberger of the New York Times called the tower “disturbing.”) Earlier this week, renderings for a comprehensive, LEED-certified makeover of the 1.3 million-square-foot building, designed by Richard Cook of Cook + Fox, were unveiled. The $350 million rehab, which was reported by Steve Cuozzo of the New York Post yesterday, comes on the heels of Verizon’s $172 million sale of most of the building to Taconic Investment Partners (which actually purchased a condominium interest in the tower, as Verizon will retain the 8th through 10th floors). Cook’s design calls for the stripping of all exterior limestone off the tower and the installation of an efficient glass curtain wall.
May 14th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Thoughts on The Lucida & Cook + Fox’ Platinum Offices: gbNYC Interviews Rick Cook
gbNYC was thrilled to have the opportunity to recently chat with Rick Cook of Cook + Fox Architects about one of his firm’s green projects- The Lucida- which is currently seeking LEED certification on the corner of East 85th Street and Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side. The project touts itself as the first residential condominium project in the neighborhood to seek a LEED rating, which is an important first given that The Brompton and The Laurel have since joined the local green chase. Mr. Cook spoke to us about specific green features at The Lucida- from its hybrid wall window system to blast-furnace concrete transfer slab- and also offered thoughts on his firm’s office space and the LEED system generally.
March 19th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Gore Scores 48th Floor at Bank of America Tower
Back in September, we noted a report in Crain’s that Al Gore’s investment firm, Generation Investment Management LLP, was looking for LEED-certified office space in New York City. Today, Generation announced that it has secured a 5,000-square-foot lease on the 48th floor of the Durst Organization’s Bank of America Tower, which expects to receive the [...]
November 14th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Dagher Engineering’s Gold Offices at 29 Broadway
Dagher Engineering’s headquarters at 29 Broadway in lower Manhattan earned a LEED for Commercial Interiors (”LEED-CI”) Gold rating from USGBC earlier this year. Dagher designed the space in collaboration with Gran Associates, implementing a variety of now standard LEED green features, including recycled and renewable materials, low-VOC paints, automatic light fixtures, and extensive daylighting. This [...]
November 12th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued