Times Square is about to receive New York City’s first green-powered electronic billboard. Tokyo-based Ricoh Company, Ltd. will install a 47 by 126 foot sign on the Reuters Building (3 Times Square, at the northwestern corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue) that will draw power from 45 solar panels and 4 wind turbines. In what should be an interesting twist, if the photovoltaics do not receive sufficient sunlight or winds are not strong enough to drive the turbines, the sign will simply not illuminate. According to Ricoh, the installation should account for a reduction of 18 tons in carbon dioxide per year.
July 3rd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "green office building"
Restaurant Leases Last Remaining Retail Space at N.Y. Times Tower
The New York Times Tower on 8th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, which earned a spot at #2 on gbNYC’s list of the top five Gotham green buildings from 2007, has secured a tenant for the fifth and final retail block in the non-LEED-certified green building. The 3,200-square-foot space will house a new restaurant concept from Andrew and Jonathan Schnipper, the brothers whose Hale & Hearty Soup chain is now ubiquitous here in Manhattan. The eatery will offer a casual American menu that will be “an evolution of the roadside stand we all knew growing up,” according to Andrew Schnipper.
January 30th, 2008 | 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 [...]
December 3rd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
CB Richard Ellis to Enroll 100 Buildings in LEED-EB Through Portfolio Program
CB Richard Ellis (”CBRE”) will select 100 office buildings from the 1,000 that it manages in the U.S. to join the LEED Portfolio Program under the Existing Buildings (”LEED-EB”) standard. The plan comes on the heels of the firm’s announcement that it will aim to become carbon neutral by the end of 2010. CBRE told [...]
November 21st, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: L’Oreal New Jersey Headquarters, Berkeley Heights, N.J.
Cosmetics company L’Oreal USA will move its New Jersey operations into a new four-story, 187,000 square foot headquarters building that will seek a LEED Gold rating from USGBC. The project broke ground last Thursday at the Connell Office Park in Berkeley Heights, just off of I-78. L’Oreal will consolidate its New Jersey workforce- currently spread [...]
October 1st, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Goldman Sachs’ Gold Headquarters in Battery Park City
Goldman Sachs broke ground on its new 740-foot, 42-story headquarters building- which will stand on the last available commercial development site in Battery Park City, just to the north of Cesar Pelli’s American Express Building along West Street between Vesey and Murray Streets- back in late 2005. Originally planned for occupancy in 2009, the project [...]
August 13th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Citigroup’s Court Square Two: Long Island City, Queens
I briefly mentioned CitiGroup’s Court Square Two project in Queens’ Long Island City back in May (after its construction manager Turner was honored along with USGBC at Solar One’s Green Building Gala) but want to pass along more details about the 14-story, 528,000 square foot building designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (with development manager Tishman [...]
August 3rd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued