Even before this fall’s meltdown on Wall Street and the expected slowdown in new construction, many commentators were speculating that green retrofits would be the next frontier for sustainable buildings. Indeed, we’ve already seen a number of high-profile renovation projects announced here in the New York City area this year, including M1 Real Estate’s green makeover of the historic Argonaut Building. Up in the Bronx, Taconic and Denham Wolf are currently in the process of pursuing an unspecified level of LEED-CS certification for the landmarked American Bank Note Building in Hunts Point.
November 18th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "LEED-CS"
LCOR’s 545 Madison Avenue Signs Alfred Dunhill to 10-Year Lease
LCOR’s LEED Gold (for Core and Shell) hopeful 545 Madison Avenue is back in the news after the developer recently inked British retailer Alfred Dunhill to a 10-year, 7000-square-foot lease for two floors of retail space. The upscale men’s clothier is currently located at 711 Fifth Avenue but will receive 175 feet of street window frontage along Madison Avenue and East 55th Street. CB Richard Ellis represented LCOR and Alfred Dunhill in the lease negotiations, which resulted in a deal at $600 per square foot. The store should open up this summer; LCOR is aiming the 17-story project’s 140,000 square feet of office space at seventeen (or fewer) boutique legal or financial services firms.
June 17th, 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
450 West 14th Street: LEED for Core and Shell Above the High Line from Morris Adjmi
Developed by Charles Blaichman and designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, 450 West 14th Street will sit above an existing three-story masonry industrial building along 9th Avenue, straddle the High Line, and also seek an unspecified level of certification under USGBC’s LEED for Core and Shell (“LEED-CS”) rating system. The Slatin Report describes the project as a boutique office building that will offer 8,000 square feet of retail across two different ground-floor spaces. Some of the space is already leased; Japanese fashion company Theory has apparently signed up for 20,000 square feet of office space (about a quarter of the building’s total) while one of its designers, Helmut Lang, will occupy one of the ground-floor retail spaces.
February 18th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | 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
Brooklyn Navy Yard Redevelopment to Include Green Historical Center
Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced plans for the Brooklyn Navy Yard Historical Center, a 25,000 square foot facility that will seek an unspecified LEED rating. The $15 million project contemplates the renovation and expansion of the Navy Yard’s Building 92, which was originally built in 1857 as the United States [...]
November 9th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued