All Posts Tagged With: "LEED Silver"

In an article that appears in this week’s edition of Real Estate Weekly (but is not available online), Stephen Pozycki, head of New Jersey-based SJP Properties, discusses the state of the New York City commercial real estate market in light of the recent U.S. economic woes. SJP, as you may recall, is building the speculative, LEED Silver 11 Times Square at the corner of 42nd Street and 8th Avenue (just across the street from the New York Times Tower). Last fall, we discussed the project in the context of the subprime lending meltdown and what it might mean for green building generally. Pozycki told Real Estate Weekly that he expects the tower to be half-filled with tenants by summer and that “[t]here’s just not many of these new green buildings that are being built in the city.” He noted the lack of available space in new green towers from the Times, Hearst, Bank of America, and also pointed to Boston Properties’ plans for a LEED Gold building, targeted specifically for law firms, at West 55th Street.

The City University of New York (”CUNY”) announced a budget request earlier this week for $77 million to build a new sustainable library on the campus of Bronx Community College (”BCC”). The North Instructional Building and Library, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, will be constructed for LEED Silver certification and is expected to be [...]

Eagle Mountain is a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer and installer of geothermal heating and cooling systems. Last Friday, it broke ground on the $1.5 million Center for Green Technology and Innovation, a research and development facility that will rise across the street from Eagle Mountain’s corporate headquarters. The 20,000 square foot building, located at 4353 [...]

As we mentioned previously, Cook + Fox isn’t the only architectural firm that’s sought (and received) certification for New York City office space under the LEED for Commercial Interiors (“LEED-CI”) rating system. Back in September, USGBC awarded Gensler with New York’s third LEED-CI rating, dishing out Silver to the firm for its 66,000 square foot [...]

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 [...]

The long-anticipated $2 billion reconstruction and renovation of the United Nations’ headquarters complex appears to be on the verge of breaking ground after last Friday’s selection of Parsippany, New Jersey-based Skanska USA Building as the project’s construction manager. Skanksa should start work on the first phase of the 2.6 million square foot, seventeen acre, six [...]

The New York Public Library’s Bronx Library Center was awarded LEED Silver certification from USGBC last summer, but USGBC President Rick Fedrizzi officially presented the honor in person at a ceremony last Thursday, January 11th up in The Bronx. The Center is the first publicly-funded green building in New York City to receive LEED certification [...]