All Posts Tagged With: "EPA"
Century-Old 14 Wall Street Earns 2008 Energy Star Designation from EPA
Regardless of your perspective, it’s critical to keep in mind that the most sustainable of buildings is the existing building, particularly when retrofitted for energy efficiency improvements and other green enhancements. Capstone Equities and The Carlyle Group’s 14 Wall Street- which dates from 1912- recently earned a 2008 Energy Star award. The 37-story tower, which stands along Nassau Street between Wall and Pine, across from the New York Stock Exchange, was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston and was designated as a New York City landmark in 1997. There are now twenty commercial buildings in New York City that have received the Energy Star designation from EPA, including Cass Gilbert’s New York Life Insurance Building at 51 Madison Avenue.
6Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Alterations to Times Tower, More Bike Shares, & Southampton Green Building Code
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of July 6, 2008, including alterations to the Times Tower in light of yet another climber, with which Renzo Piano is “okay,” the potential for an increased number of local, European-style bike share programs, groundbreaking at Serviam Gardens in the Bronx, and a push towards green building codes in Southampton on Long Island.
13Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Anheuser-Busch Warehouse, Hunts Point, South Bronx
Anheuser-Busch broke ground last September on a 167,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility on Hunts Point in the South Bronx. The $40 million, project is seeking an unspecified level of LEED certification and should open up sometime in October. The warehouse will sit on the site of a former brownfield and is supported by a pile foundation system; soils at the site are extremely unstable and the piles are necessary to brace the heavy traffic from Anheuser-Busch’s local fleet of 70 freight trucks. Specific green features also include a graywater irrigation system and native landscaping across the warehouse’s 13.5 acres.
30Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Saatchi & Saatchi Reups with Tishman Speyer at 375 Hudson Street
Advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi recently renewed an 819,000-square-foot lease at Tishman Speyer’s 375 Hudson Street, which earned a 2007 Energy Star Award from EPA earlier this year. The 1.2 million-square-foot, 19-story building, which stands at the corner of West Houston Street, has been home to Saatchi since 1985, when rents in the Hudson Square submarket were approximately $20 per square foot. The firm was the first ad agency to relocate from Midtown down to Hudson Square, where according to Jones Lang LaSalle rents are currently averaging $59 per square foot. CB Richard Ellis represented Saatchi in the lease negotiations; asking rent details are not available. The New York Post’s Steve Cuozzo called the deal “welcome news in a market increasingly jittery over subprime fallout and the likelihood of space being dumped after inevitable layoffs.”
16Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
NYC Green Building Competition Opens, Office Building of the Year in Westchester, & Green Efforts Lagging Upstate
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of April 6, 2008, including the launch of the 2008 New York City Green Building Competition, BOMA’s award of Office Building of the Year to Westchester One in White Plains, which will seek LEED certification, sustainable initiatives at the historic Duke Farms outside of Princeton, New Jersey, and concern from the Buffalo News that green building practices are lagging throughout Western New York State.
13Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Design Features Announced for Mets’ Citi Field
Newsday and MLB.com reported yesterday that the Mets are planning to incorporate a variety of sustainable features into the new Citi Field, set to open in April 2009. The $800 million stadium is being built using 95 percent recycled steel, and will be lit for night games using energy-efficient field lighting. The bathrooms will feature low-flow plumbing elements like hands-free faucets and waterless urinals that the EPA estimates will save 4 million gallons of water a year. The Mets also plan to install a 15,000 square foot green roof on the administration building in order to cut down on heating and cooling costs and are working with the MTA to continue to encourage people to take public transportation to games. The club has also partnered with EPA’s Energy Star program and will implement a recycling program with its concessions vendor, ARAMARK.
14Mar2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued
Forest City Ratner in New Rochelle, Green Power Award for Citi, & 25 Years for SJP
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of February 17, 2008, including a green mixed-use development in New Rochelle proposed by Forest City Ratner, a green power award from EPA for Citi, and 25 years of development for SJP Properties in the New York City metropolitan area. As always, descriptions and links are after the jump.
24Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
New York Life Insurance Building Among 5 Manhattan Properties to Earn Energy Star Designation
On Tuesday, 5 New York City commercial buildings were among 1,400 nationwide that received 2007 Energy Star ratings from EPA. Dating from 1928, the Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Insurance Building at 51 Madison Avenue is one of the awardees. The 40-story tower is also a National Historic Landmark, as well as a New York City landmark, designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission back in 2000. The 1,400 buildings are the most that have received the rating, which is distributed annually, since the Energy Star program kicked off back in 2002. Since 2004, New York Life and property manager Jones Lang LaSalle have been retrofitting 51 Madison with a number of measures designed to increase its energy efficiency.
14Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued-
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