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 for Core and Shell"
Tishman Speyer’s Gotham Center: LEED for Core & Shell in Long Island City
Currently under development by Tishman Speyer, the $316 million Gotham Center will be a 662,000-square-foot, 21-story Class A office building at the corner of Queens Plaza and 28th Street in Long Island City. Mayor Bloomberg and other officials announced the project’s groundbreaking last Friday, noting that it will join a number of other green projects in the neighborhood, including the LEED Gold-certified, KPF-designed Court Square Two. The tower was designed by architects Moed De Armas & Shannon and is pursuing a LEED Certified rating under the Core and Shell system. The tower is rising out of the former site of the Queens Plaza Municipal Parking Garage; the project team also includes construction manager Bovis Lend Lease and architect of record Gensler.
October 21st, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Port Authority Releases Renderings for Proposed LEED Gold 20 Times Square
At a meeting held earlier today, the Port Authority unveiled renderings from three firms for 20 Times Square, the 1.3 million-square foot, 42-story LEED (for Core and Shell) Gold tower that Vornado Realty Trust and Ruben Cos. plan to co-develop above the north wing of the agency’s Bus Terminal on 8th Avenue. From left to right in the image, Pelli Clarke Pelli (The Visionaire), Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners (Tower 3 at the World Trade Center along Greenwich Street), and KPF (Court Square Two, One Jackson Square, and the Beer Belly Building) present three very different visions for the tower, ranging from Pelli’s artistic curtain wall and KPF’s glass box that evokes the Lever House (and Boston Properties’ “redux” on West 55th Street) to Rogers’ series of stacked boxes that is easily the most ambitious of the three concepts.
July 24th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
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