All Posts Tagged With: "Ground Zero"

gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of September 28, 2008, including a push for David Yassky’s Bikes in Buildings Bill, which would require commercial and office buildings to offer bike storage space to tenants, jabs at Sarah Palin from Williamsburg’s LEED Silver hopeful Edge condo project, more space for AOL at 770 Broadway, which is pursuing a LEED for Existing Buildings rating from USGBC, and the debut of the first electric-powered delivery truck in New York City, now making the rounds from Hunts Point in the Bronx.

gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of September 7, 2008, including remarks from Bruce Fowle on a proposed zero carbon museum along the Housatonic River in Massachusetts, the opening of a 44,000-square-foot New York City headquarters space for Phoenix-based solar panel provider First Solar in the New York Times Tower, remarks from Larry Silverstein and others on the future of the World Trade Center site, including its numerous proposed green engineering features, and a lottery upstate for families to purchase affordable homes designed to LEED specifications.

Last June, HSBC announced a five-year, $100 million partnership to address global climate change, agreeing to work with The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund in order to quantify the impact of climate change on the world’s cities, forests, and rivers through extensive field research. Yesterday, sources told GlobeSt.com that the bank is close to continuing its sustainable efforts by leasing 300,000 square feet across seven of the final ten floors available at Larry Silverstein’s LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center. Should the deal close, HSBC would likely sell its 500,000-square-foot headquarters tower at 452 Fifth Avenue in Midtown. Asking rents for the final ten floors at 7 WTC are hovering between $75 and $85 per square foot, and HSBC’s deal is rumored to be “at term sheet at the moment.”

The intellectual property law firm Darby & Darby moved into the 41st and 42nd floors of LEED Gold-certified 7 World Trade Center last June. Gerner Kronick + Valcarel, Architects designed the firm’s 80,000-square-foot space, which includes a stainless steel, tension rod-suspended glass staircase that connects a two-story conference/multi-purpose room. GKV’s design emphasizes the natural light provided by 7 WTC’s floor to ceiling windows. Stretch fabric ceilings were installed in each of the office’s conference rooms and glass sidelights connect perimeter office doors to maximize light penetration into the interior.

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.

Late yesterday, Crain’s reported that JPMorgan Chase will move its investment banking operations into the former offices of Bear Stearns on Madison Avenue at 47th Street in Midtown, which JPMorgan purchased on Monday in the aftermath of Bear’s meltdown last week. The decision places the proposed LEED Platinum Beer Belly Building project at 5 World Trade Center in jeopardy- if not completely shelving it- though according to a spokesman the bank is still considering its options in connection with the site. Crain’s also reports that JPMorgan will continue negotiating with the Port Authority about building at 5 WTC, but the same spokesman “couldn’t say what might be built . . . or when a decision would be reached.”

gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of February 24, 2008, including new construction financing for Macklowe Properties at LEED Gold hopeful 510 Madison Avenue, security concerns over the proximity to the street of Towers 2, 3, and 4 at the World Trade Center site, and LEED and Energy Star news out of the Garden State.