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.
February 28th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "CoStar Group"
Green Commercial Office Space in New York City Currently Ranks Third in U.S.
According to a report that was released last month by the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego, Los Angeles is first among U.S. cities when it comes to LEED- or Energy Star-certified commercial office space. The CoStar Group provided the data upon which the report was based and ranked cities by the total amount of their square footage that has earned either the LEED or Energy Star designation; no breakdown appears to be readily available that segregates the figures according to individual rating system. Los Angeles topped the list with 100 buildings and 26.2 million square feet while Houston checked in at #2 with 46 buildings and 21.1 million square feet; New York City was third with 11 buildings and 12.3 million square feet.
February 26th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: HSBC’s Gold Headquarters Tower in Mexico City
Checking in at #8 on the CoStar Group’s list of the top ten green real estate stories of 2007 was the commitment that a number of banks demonstrated to sustainable building and operations during the course of last year. When we presented the list to you earlier this month, gbNYC noted the green efforts of a number of banks here in the New York City area, including JPMorganChase, PNC Bank, and Bank of America. Not to be outdone, HSBC Bank announced last week that its Headquarters Tower on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City has earned the first LEED Gold rating in Latin America.
January 28th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Color it Green: The 25 Largest Blocks of Available Manhattan Office Space
A few green addresses of note jump off the most recent CoStar Group list of the largest contiguous blocks of office space currently available in Manhattan (as of December 31, 2007). The list appears in the Real Estate Report in this week’s edition of Crain’s. Topping the list is SJP Properties’ LEED Silver hopeful 11 [...]
January 15th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
The Top 10 News Stories in Green Real Estate from 2007
In an article that was published yesterday, Andrew Burr of the CoStar Group listed his top 10 “most influential” green news items of 2007. We wrote about many of these important stories here at gbNYC last year, so we present Mr. Burr’s list below with links to our supporting posts. Two items in particular jump [...]
January 4th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued