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: "Crain’s"
Green Power Developer Sets Pace for New York Venture Capital in 2007
In this week’s issue of Crain’s, a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers identifies six-year-old Everpower Renewables Corp., a Manhattan-based developer of utility-grade wind power projects, as the recipient of $55 million from Good Energies, Inc. during the fourth quarter of 2007. In fact, Everpower raised the most money of any company in New York last year. While the overall amount of venture capital flowing into New York decreased from 2006 ($2 billion to $1.7 billion), David Silverman, managing director of PwC’s New York venture capital group, told Crain’s that the New York market “continues to look healthy.”
January 24th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Business Law: Brooklyn Moving Company Trademarks “GothamBoxes”
According to this week’s edition of Crain’s, Brooklyn-based moving company Movers Not Shakers recently received a trademark for the term “GothamBoxes.” The firm distributes these reusable plastic crates to clients rather than cardboard boxes, which it will drop off one week prior to a client’s move and then pick up again one week afterwards. Dubbed [...]
December 4th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
LEED-AP Designation Not Just for A/E/C
It’s no surprise that this week’s edition of Crain’s reports an increasing number of real estate brokers, marketing professionals, and, yes, lawyers, who are sitting for the U.S. Green Building Council’s exam in pursuit of the LEED Accredited Professional (”LEED-AP”) designation. (The article is not yet available online). Depending on the industry, though, professionals [...]
October 2nd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 6 comments | Continued