Designed by architects Cook + Fox (The Lucida and Bank of America Tower), a planned 17-story, 350,000-square-foot office building could become Brooklyn’s first LEED Gold-certified commercial office tower. The tower, part of the larger City Point development in downtown Brooklyn, is a joint venture between Acadia Realty Trust, MacFarlane Partners, P/A Associates, Washington Square Partners and Rose Associates, is a smaller version of a much larger tower that had been proposed for the same site. CIty Point will also include 525,000 square feet of retail space, as well as a 900,000-square-foot residential component that will also include affordable units. Earlier this week, the development team named Cushman & Wakefield as the office tower’s exclusive leasing agent.
October 22nd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "green Brooklyn"
Merrill Lynch at Ground Zero? Grant for Greenbelt & High-Speed Link to D.C.
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of May 25, 2008, including a report that Merrill Lynch may anchor one of Larry Silverstein’s LEED Gold-seeking Greenwich Street towers at the World Trade Center site, a $15,000 grant for the Greenbelt condo project in Brooklyn from local utility company National Grid, and a push from Mayor Bloomberg for high-speed rail service under two hours between New York City and D.C.
May 31st, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
City Selects Gowanus Green; LEED for AOL HQ & New York Theater Workshop
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of April 12, 2008, including a number of affordable LEED projects on the way in the Bronx in addition to the Morrisania Homes, the City’s selection of Gowanus Green for a LEED-ND development along the Gowanus Canal, and potential LEED-certified spaces for AOL at 770 Broadway and the New York Theater Workshop at 72 East 4th Street.
April 20th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
SurroundArt Selects Steven Kratchman Architect for Green Museum Resource Center at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Last fall, SurroundArt, which stores and restores works of art, as well as supplies back-end back-end support for high-end art exhibitions, signed a lease for 89,000 square feet of space at the Navy Yard’s LEED-CS Silver Perry Building, designed by Vollmer Associates, which is currently under construction. The project is touting itself as the first industrial building in the country to house multiple tenants and achieve a LEED Silver rating. Yesterday, SurroundArt announced that it has retained Steven Kratchman Architect for the design of its new space (the Perry Building is a core and shell project, so Kratchman will work with SurroundArt to fit out the interior).
February 20th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Modern Dances with Green: Greenbelt Condos, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Designed by Gregory Merryweather, the Greenbelt condos, which broke ground back in January of 2006, are on track to become Brooklyn’s first LEED-certified mixed-use development. Developer Derek Denckla is rehabbing a former plumbing warehouse at 361 Manhattan Avenue in East Williamsburg into eight floor-through apartments across five additional floors and 9,600 total square feet. The [...]
December 11th, 2007 | 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
Green Affordable Housing: Glenmore Gardens, East New York, Brooklyn
We’ll stick with green affordable housing projects in Brooklyn today and note Glenmore Gardens, a $2.3 million, five-building, ten-unit development in East New York which was funded by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s (“HPD”) New Foundations Program on land owned by HPD. New Foundations encourages smaller developers to build affordable housing in neighborhoods [...]
October 23rd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
The Living Domino Project: Domino Sugar Factory, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
While the battle to confer landmark status on the Domino Sugar Factory refinery building in Williamsburg has been won (though the famous sign and the building upon which it sits were not awarded the designation), debate still rages over plans for the actual development of the rest of the site. Non-profit organization Community Preservation Corporation [...]
October 12th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
$50M OEM Headquarters in Brooklyn Receives LEED Silver
New York City’s new $50 million Office of Emergency Management (“OEM”) headquarters in Brooklyn, which I wrote about back in December, earned its LEED Silver rating from USGBC on Wednesday. The four-story building was designed by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects and is located on Cadman Plaza East near the Brooklyn Bridge. The project was funded [...]
August 17th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
93 Nevins Street / 453 Pacific Street in Boerum Hill: The Brooklyn Health House
Developed by Boerum Hill-based R & E Brooklyn, Inc., 93 Nevins Street and 453 Pacific Street (collectively, the Brooklyn Health House) are currently under construction. The project team, which includes Kiss + Cathcart Architects and general contractor GreenStreet Construction, is remodeling a 1920s-era brick pharmacy- which also served as a Laundromat and a deli- into [...]
August 16th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued