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.
June 30th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "green industry"
New Green Roof Planned for Red Hook Factory
Soon the Red Hook waterfront will have a decidedly greener hue. U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez recently announced that she has secured $250,000 in federal money for the construction of a green roof on top of the Linda Tool and Dye metal fabrication factory at the intersection of Dwight and Coffey Streets. The grant will be [...]
January 14th, 2008 | Meredith Taylor | 4 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Contessa Premium Foods Opens First Certified Frozen Food Manufacturing Plant
Contessa Premium Foods will officially open the doors of its $35 million Green Cuisine™ Plant in Los Angeles sometime this fall. According to Contessa, the four million square foot plant is the world’s first and largest environment-friendly frozen food manufacturing facility, as well as the first such project to earn a LEED rating from USGBC. [...]
October 29th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued