All Posts Tagged With: "Monday LEEDoff"
ML: Gold Weeksville Heritage Center by Caples Jefferson Breaks Ground in Bed-Stuy
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Pamela Green, executive director of the Weeksville Heritage Society, along with other Brooklyn and city leaders, broke ground in a ceremony last Wednesday on a new 19,000-square-foot educational and cultural center at 1698 Bergen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The $19.5 million Weeksville Heritage Center, designed by architects Caples Jefferson, will seek a LEED Gold rating from USGBC. Weeksville- now known as Bedford-Stuyvesant- was an African-American community that began in Brooklyn in 1838 as a refuge for slaves fleeing the South.
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14Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Skanska USA to Seek Empire State Building’s First Platinum Rating
Skanska USA, the U.S. division of Swedish construction giant Skanska AB, is retrofitting the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building in pursuit of a LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum rating from USGBC. Ranked by Engineering News-Record as America’s number 1 green contractor for 2007, Skanska USA’s area general manager Steve Pressler explained the firm’s philosophy behind the move in a press release, noting that Skanska’s “push for Platinum LEED certification not only aligns with our core business philosophies, but demonstrates to our current and existing clients our commitment to the green movement.” The construction giant signed a deal for a 15-year lease on the tower’s 32nd floor and will take 24,400 square feet upon moving from its current headquarters at 136 Madison Avenue.
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7Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: BBG-BBGM to Seek Empire State Building’s First LEED (CI) Rating
Brennan Beer Gorman Architects / Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Interiors, designers of LEED Silver hopeful 330 Hudson Street, announced last week that it will move from 515 Madison Avenue into a new LEED Silver headquarters of its own. The firm will execute a green fit out of 32,000 square feet of space on the entire 25th floor of the Empire State Building under USGBC’s LEED for Commercial Interiors system. Green features will be replete throughout the space; BBG-BBGM has inked a 15-year lease for which terms were undisclosed.
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16Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Rose Companies’ Metro Green Breaks Ground in Stamford
A LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Project- one of 238 such projects in 39 states and D.C. and six countries- broke ground last Tuesday in Stamford, Connecticut. The mixed-use Metro Green will include 238 units of rental and condominium apartments, including 50 affordable housing units which constitute Phase I of the project. Jonathan Rose Companies has teamed up with W&M Properties for the residential component, which independently will seek LEED Gold under New Construction.
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9Jun2008 | Alex Padalka | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Merchandise Mart in Chicago, World’s Largest Commercial Building, Earns Silver Rating from USGBC
News about green efforts across the retail sector has been prolific of late- see our recent posts about discussion at ICSC and Greenbuild, as well as important news from PNC Bank. So, it’s not entirely surprising that the world’s largest commercial building, which is home to an extensive number of retailers, recently made some green […]
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26Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Atlantic Terrace, Brooklyn, New York
Construction on Atlantic Terrace, an eighty-unit residential development at Atlantic and South Portland Avenues in Brooklyn will begin today, according to the New York Observer. Designed by Manhattan-based Magnusson Architects, 50 percent of the units at the $20 million, 10-story condominium will be set aside for affordable housing. (We’ve written previously about Dattner Architects’ 1870 […]
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22Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Goldman Sachs’ Gold Headquarters in Battery Park City
Goldman Sachs broke ground on its new 740-foot, 42-story headquarters building- which will stand on the last available commercial development site in Battery Park City, just to the north of Cesar Pelli’s American Express Building along West Street between Vesey and Murray Streets- back in late 2005. Originally planned for occupancy in 2009, the project […]
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13Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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