All Posts Tagged With: "green New York City"
More Tenants for 7 WTC, Columbia LEED-ND Plan Approved, & NYC Green Homes
Advertising firm Arnell Group pays $70/square foot for 37th floor of LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center
City Council approves Columbia’s Manhattanville expansion plan, which was accepted into USGBC’s LEED-ND Pilot Program
New York City green homes serving as show houses, classrooms
Panel of experts share thoughts on green building in New York City at event organized by […]
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23Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Firmdale’s Crosby Street Hotel Set to Seek LEED Gold in SoHo
The Crosby Street Hotel has been registered with USGBC since early April, but details about the project- which will seek a Gold rating under LEED for New Construction- have been hard to come by. Still, the hotel should open by the close of 2008, and given gbNYC’s recent attention to the hospitality industry, it deserves […]
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20Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
BIM Meets Prefab: Suburban Prototype Home, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
We hear and read a great deal about the promises- and potential pitfalls- of BIM in the context of its use as a tool for sustainable design. Accordingly, we were interested to read in the most recent issue of Dwell about the Suburban Prototype Home in Bergen County. Designed by Hoboken-based Nastasi Architects for clients […]
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14Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Haworth’s Sustainable New York City Showroom: LEED-CI Gold at 125 Park Avenue
Haworth, Inc., which designs and manufactures workspaces and office furniture, recently opened its New York City showroom on the second floor of 125 Park Avenue, adjacent to Grand Central Station on 42nd Street. Since 2004, Haworth has designed its showrooms- in Dallas, Washington, and Santa Monica- pursuant to the LEED for Commercial Interiors (“LEED-CI”) rating […]
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12Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Brooklyn Bridge LEDs, Orange County LEED Legislation, & NYC Energy Conservation
Brooklyn Bridge’s 160 lights to receive LEDs by next year at a cost of $500K
City to spend $67M on implementing 132 energy conservation projects over the next few months
Majora Carter presents at Conversations on the Environment in Kansas City
Green building slow to permeate New Jersey commercial real estate market
Orange County (NY) passes green building legislation, […]
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9Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Bronx Zoo Eco Restroom Named 2007 Project of the Year
Perhaps we didn’t jump the gun here at gbNYC by presenting our top five New York City green buildings to you earlier this week- New York Construction’s December feature is the magazine’s Best of 2007 list, which offers a selection of top New York City projects across a number of industry sectors A number of […]
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7Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
SJP Properties’ Waterfront Corporate Center III: Hoboken, NJ
New Jersey-based developer SJP Properties, whose first commercial foray into the Manhattan real estate market at LEED Silver hopeful 11 Times Square is two months ahead of schedule, is also developing the Waterfront Corporate Center III (”WCC III”) across the Hudson River in Hoboken (middle building in the image to the left). Also a speculative […]
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6Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: 20 Times Square at Port Authority Bus Terminal- Gold Core and Shell
In a major turnaround from its seedy Fun City days, Eighth Avenue has made a major case that it’s Manhattan’s greenest thoroughfare. Though the strip has retained much of the gritty flavor that makes it a favorite among tourists and unwitting theatergoers, new green towers from the New York Times and Hearst, plus the speculative […]
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3Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Tishman Speyer Wraps Rockefeller Center in Green for Holidays
Just in time for the holidays, and as a nice complement to the efficient LED lights that will grace this year’s Christmas tree, Tishman Speyer has installed 363 solar panels on the roof of 45 Rockefeller Plaza. Last week, at the same press conference announcing both of these initiatives, Tishman, which has owned the complex […]
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27Nov2007 | 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 […]
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17Aug2007 | 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 […]
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16Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
Morrisania Homes in The Bronx Earn NY’s First Affordable Housing LEED-H Rating
The Morrisania Homes, a sixty-four unit development in the South Bronx that includes sixteen three-family and eight two-family homes, just became New York’s first affordable housing project to receive certification under USGBC’s LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) Pilot Program (which should launch formally sometime this fall) and the first LEED-H Certified residences in New York City. […]
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