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Baseball All-Stars Parade on Green Carpet from Bentley Along Sixth Avenue
As part of Major League Baseball’s efforts to green this year’s All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium (which the American League won last night in 15 innings), the red carpet that covered 95,000 square feet of Sixth Avenue yesterday from 40th through 58th Streets during the All-Star Red Carpet Parade was manufactured by Bentley Prince Street from 100 percent recycled fiber content. Bentley, whose California manufacturing facility holds a LEED-EB rating from USGBC, used 100 percent renewable electricity to manufacture the carpet through its on-site solar array, coupled with the purchase of Green-e-certified RECs. According to Bentley, its carpet manufacturing process avoids the use of 300 pounds of petroleum-based fiber and 162,000 gallons of water.
16Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Credit Markets, Lack of Tenants May Trim Vornado’s LEED Silver Harlem Tower
Just before Bon Jovi opened up Saturday night’s All-Star Concert in Central Park, a Major League Baseball rep encouraged the crowd to “tune in” to the new MLB Network once it launches in 2009. Late last week, though, a report surfaced that Vornado, which will develop the $435 million, 21-story Swanke Hayden Connell-designed LEED Silver Harlem Tower at the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue that’s meant to house the new network, is planning on cutting the building’s size by close to a third due to its inability to secure financing for the project. Vornado has also had difficulty securing any tenants in addition to MLB; the developer had been negotiating with Midtown-based Inner City Broadcasting, the country’s second-largest radio company that targets African-American listeners, but has yet to officially secure a lease with the broadcaster, while a rumored retail lease with Macy’s never materialized either.
14Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Baseball’s All-Star Game to Bid Green Farewell to House That Ruth Built
While the New York Yankees have been mum on the green design features (if any, though the project is not seeking a LEED rating) at their new $1 billion stadium in the Bronx which will open up next April, Major League Baseball announced today that next month’s All-Star Game (July 15) at the current Yankee Stadium across the street will be “the greenest event in MLB’s history.” MLB has partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to promote environmental awareness at this year’s Midsummer Classic.
5Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Vornado Hopes to Swing for Groundbreaking at Harlem Tower with Major League Baseball
Over the summer, we wrote about the Swanke Hayden Connell-designed Harlem Tower, developed by Vornado, which will seek a LEED Silver rating. The project will be Harlem’s first new commercial office building since 1973 and stand at the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue, adjacent to a number of subway lines and the Metro North commuter rail station. A couple of weeks ago, in an effort to push the project forward, Vornado agreed with Major League Baseball’s new cable television network on a lease that will take up approximately one fifth of the 600,000-square-foot, 21-story tower, including the second and third floors which would serve as network studio space, and the top two floors for executive offices. The deal is still being finalized, and Vornado hopes to break ground sometime this spring now that it has secured an anchor tenant.
13Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Tampa Bay Rays, Hines, to Develop LEED-Certified Ballpark on St. Petersburg Waterfront
Though their respective performances on the field could not be more wildly different, New York City and Tampa Bay do share a baseball connection; it’s where the Yankees hold their spring training and home to George Steinbrenner. The Boss even threatened to move the Bronx Bombers to Tampa during the Yanks’ lean years in the [...]
30Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued-
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